Autumn Abundance: How to Harvest All Year Round

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Autumn may be here, but your garden’s productivity doesn’t have to slow down! This week, join us as Liz Mooney from RHS Wisley’s World Food Garden reveals how she keeps her allotment bursting with fruit and veg all year round. We’ll also hear from entomologist Dr Hayley Jones, who’s back to shed new light on wasps — the much-maligned but fascinating insects who’ve had a buzzing bumper year in 2025. And for those thinking beyond the traditional lawn, RHS advisor Nick Turrell offers fresh ideas to transform your garden into something truly inspiring. Host: Jenny Laville Contributors: Liz Mooney, Dr Hayley Jones, Nick Turrell Links: Social Wasps RHS Plants For Pollinators Plants for Pollinators Special Podcast Episode

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0:00.0	Save 30% on RHS membership today.
0:05.0	Enjoy unlimited access to 5 RHS gardens and 230 partner gardens all year round.
0:13.0	Delight in exclusive member only days and reduce rate tickets to RHS flower shows.
0:19.0	Plus expert gardening advice,
0:22.6	monthly editions of the garden magazine,
0:23.8	and so much more.
0:28.3	Join today from just £56.org at rhs.org.
0:30.9	Hurry, offer, end soon.
0:32.5	Terms and conditions apply. Thank you. The word autumn comes from the Latin autumnes,
0:47.1	a term that crossed the channel with the Norman invaders in the Middle Ages,
0:50.7	but its use lingered on the fringes of the English language until the 18th century.
0:55.0	The term fall, which today is commonly associated with North America,
0:59.0	was widespread in the UK throughout the 17th century as a shortening of the phrase,
1:03.0	the fall of the leaf.
1:09.0	And if we trace the roots deeper still, we land on harvest, the Old English Harvest,
1:14.7	itself brunching out from the proto-Germanic languages of Europe.
1:19.5	To call the season harvest was to tie language to livelihood,
1:23.4	to bind words to the turning of the soil and the gathering of crops.
1:27.4	It's fading from everyday speech reflects how far we've drifted from nature's cycles,
1:32.1	though farmers, foragers and gardeners will always know this time of year as harvest in the truest sense.
1:39.5	One of them is Liz Mooney from RHS Garden Wisley's Edibles team,
1:43.4	who's reaping the rewards
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