Garden Carbon Footprints, Wasps in Springtime, and Pruning Shrubby Hydrangeas

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week Guy Barter and RHS Sustainability Fellow Chloe Sutcliffe react to a recent study published in the journal Nature Cities that claims that urban agriculture has a carbon footprint up to 6 times bigger than conventional agriculture – discussing what this means for allotmenteers and community gardeners, and how we should be thinking about our environmental impact. Entomologist and wasp defender Serian Sumner explains why spring is the perfect time to make peace with yellowjackets, as the queens emerge from hibernation. And the RHS’s Adrian Thorne gives us a practical guide to pruning shrubby hydrangeas. Presenter: Gareth Richards Contributors: Guy Barter, Chloe Sutcliffe, Serian Sumner, Adrian Thorne Contact: [email protected] Links: Nature Cities: Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture Endless Forms by Serian Sumner Shrubby Hydrangeas The Garden Magazine

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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.
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0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:31.8	Gardners are fuming.
0:34.1	Urban ag activists up in arms.
0:37.2	Urban agriculture isn't as climate-friendly as it seems.
0:41.7	These are all quotes from recent headlines, responding to a study in the journal Nature Cities
0:46.3	published in late January.
0:48.1	The study compared the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture
0:51.8	and found that urban agriculture, so things like community gardens, allotments, etc.,
0:56.7	had a carbon footprint that was about six times greater
0:59.4	than that of conventional agriculture.
1:01.8	That's pretty mad, isn't it?
1:03.9	But today we're going to take a deeper look at this study
1:06.2	and ask ourselves the hard questions,
1:09.1	is Grow Your Own really as green as it seems?
1:12.0	And what, if anything, did this study overlook? But that's not all. We're also exploring what
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