Allotment extravaganza!

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week we're all about growing your own fruit and veg in a programme dedicated to allotments and the green-fingered people who tend them. We meet the 'Veg King', retired fisherman Gerald Stratford (@GeraldStrafor3) – who became an overnight internet sensation, bringing giant veg growing to the attention of a worldwide audience and even starring in a fashion campaign by Gucci. Allotmenteer and YouTuber Mothin Ali (My Family Garden) shares top tips on growing potatoes while Kirsty Ward (@my_litttle_allotment) gives advice on engaging children with gardening. Plus RHS Garden Wisley's resident fruit guru Jim Arbury offers expert advice on choosing an apple tree for your garden.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:06.4	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.
0:13.2	Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.
0:17.4	Race you, let's go.
0:19.5	Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs' finest scenes while you can
0:21.9	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free
0:27.1	and under 16s of five pounds.
0:31.6	One of my last early summer cabbage.
0:35.5	We're going to enjoy this tonight with a nice high. Cheers.
0:42.1	This is Gerald Stratford, a grower, Twitter sensation and author of the highly anticipated book,
0:48.0	Big Veg. From appearing in Gucci adverts to growing incredible giant cauliflowers,
0:53.4	Gerald has had a busy year after his vegetable-based videos
0:57.0	began to go viral online.
0:59.7	Here's a taste.
1:01.3	Just harvesting my large onions.
1:05.2	Just cutting a cauliflower.
1:07.5	I'm picking beet roots today.
1:09.7	We're going to have some for lunch and I'm pickling the rest.
1:15.6	Just lifting them. Look at those. You can also eat the leaves just like spinach. They're delicious.
1:24.6	Have a nice weekend.
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