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🗓️ 23 March 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you. |
0:05.0 | Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance. |
0:09.3 | The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of. |
0:14.7 | The best hiding place ever. |
0:17.4 | Booth. |
0:18.2 | Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts. |
0:21.6 | It's the greatest show in Earth. |
0:23.7 | At an RHS garden near you. |
0:25.5 | Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds. |
0:43.8 | Hello and welcome to a spring edition of the Royal Horticultural Society's gardening podcast. |
0:49.9 | I'm Jenny Bowden, one of the RHS's team of horticultural advisors, based here at Wisley and Surrey. |
0:59.6 | If you're a regular listener, you'll know that this is a podcast made by people who know and love gardening, for people who love gardening, and who would like to know even more. |
1:12.6 | Coming up in this edition, Beautiful Butterflies, how you can transform your garden into a must-visit destination for these delightful but vulnerable pollinators and help protect the most endangered species. |
1:20.6 | Plus, we have a lowdown on the most problematic plant diseases for British gardeners and how to protect your treasured plants. Plus, as always, we'll give you the latest news of RHS events and attractions. |
1:25.6 | But first, let's go outside and join the horticultural teams here at WISley |
1:30.3 | to hear what key jobs they're tackling in the gardens this spring. |
1:34.3 | My name is Paul Catelle. I'm team leader for edibles here at RHS Garden Wisley. |
1:39.3 | As March progresses, we turn our attention to mulching before the weeds start to poke their heads through the soil |
1:44.6 | and get a grip and we get the mulch on. Nice thick mulches. We use a variety of things here at |
1:50.1 | Wizzley so things that like it, slightly more on the acidic side. So I'm thinking perhaps |
1:55.5 | fruits like the blueberries and the raspberries. We're using a bracken mulch compost and then it's garden compost for |
2:03.6 | our other crops, so around our black currents, red currents, gooseberries for example, |
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