Episode 59: Seasonal jobs, questions answered and an essential guide to weeding

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Our expert teams at Wisley give seasonal advice on jobs to do in your kitchen gardens right now. In our regular guides to Gardening Essentials, we tackle weeding, including tips on selecting the right hoe. Our team of Horticultural Advisors at RHS Wisley answer listeners’ questions on a diverse range of topics including • Creating a blue border • Growing the perfect sunflower • Growing seeds in space! We also have the latest news on summer events across our four RHS Gardens including a focus on the 25th anniversary of the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

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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 16s of five pounds.
0:41.2	Hello and welcome back to the RHS gardening podcast.
0:45.5	Every fortnight in these podcasts we bring you a mixture of features and discussions,
0:51.2	exploring every aspect of gardening, plant care, garden design, pest control, growing your own fruit and vegetables and container ideas, plus expert gardening advice
0:55.3	throughout the year. I'm Tony Dickerson, one of the RHS's team of horticultural advisors,
1:00.7	based here at RHS Garden Wisley and Surrey. Coming up in this edition, RHS advisors answer your
1:07.3	seasonal gardening questions. We continue our feature series of discussions of
1:11.5	gardening essentials, tools that every gardener should own and techniques we should all master.
1:16.6	And as always, the latest news on RHS Garden events across the UK. But first, let's join the experts
1:23.1	here at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey to hear what jobs they're tackling this June.
1:27.9	My name is Matthew Potage and I'm the deputy curator here at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey to hear what jobs they're tackling this June. My name is Matthew Potage and I'm the deputy curator here at RHS Garden Wisley.
1:32.4	So things were busy within the garden this time of year.
1:35.0	One job that I often think gets overlooked is the ornamental grasses.
1:39.5	And everyone knows when to cut them back and you know when to clean out any dead.
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