Episode 112: Exotic vegetables take root in Essex, seasonal gardening tasks, and are native plants better for wildlife?

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Chickpeas, yard-long beans and shark's fin melons... all on a windy hilltop near Chelmsford... we visit RHS Garden Hyde Hall in Essex to hear some inspirational Grow Your Own ideas from their new Global Growth Vegetable Garden. We also hear about some of the latest research the RHS has conducted in the Plant For Bugs project and as usual we have all the latest on events across our RHS Gardens.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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 16s of five pounds.
0:42.8	Hello and welcome back to the Royal Horticultural Society's gardening podcast.
0:47.2	I'm Guy Barta, Chief Horticulturist at the RHS.
0:53.5	As regular listeners will know, this podcast is made by people who know and love gardening,
0:57.0	four people who love gardening and who would like to know even more.
1:07.1	We discuss all aspects of gardening, including design, plant care and propagation, pest and diseases, and growing your own fruit and vegetables, and lots more.
1:11.7	In these podcasts, we hope that you'll hear something to interest everyone, whether you have years of gardening experience, or none at all. Coming up in this edition, electric daisies,
1:18.2	keenwa, sharks, fin, melons and chickpeas are all growing on a windy hilltop in Essex. The podcast
1:24.7	team visits a newly opened global growth vegetable garden at Hyde Hall to see the startling range of crops from around the world that they're attempting to cultivate.
1:33.8	We'll bring you the latest news on events and activities at RHS Gardens this autumn, plus native or exotic, which plants are best to encourage beneficial insects into your garden.
1:46.0	We speak to experts from the RHS entomology team to hear the latest findings from their research into plants or bugs.
1:52.0	But first, let's go outside to find out what key jobs the garden teams at WISley are doing right now.
1:58.0	Hello, I'm Peter Jones from RHS Garden Wisley and at this time of year as we go into
2:03.1	September the garden teams are starting on their autumn jobs and one job that we really got
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Royal Horticultural Society, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Royal Horticultural Society and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.