Gardeners' hit list - top 10 pests revealed, plastic not fantastic and growing berries in pots (Ep 126)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The results are in! A gruesome lineup of slugs, bugs and other garden baddies has been compiled in our annual round-up of the most troublesome garden pests. We head to the Laboratory to find out who's on the list and how to deal with them, and then out into the garden to see what's going on in the beds and borders at Wisley. Plus we open the postbag to discuss RHS members' enquiries on growing fruit in pots, whether you can grow your own edamame beans and how to minimise plastic and peat use in the garden. For more info including plants mentioned and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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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.
0:42.6	Hello and welcome back to the Royal Horticultural Society Gardening Podcast.
0:47.1	I'm Guy Barta, Chief Horticulturist here at the RHS.
0:53.6	Coming up today, with increasing concerns about peat use in gardens and pollution from waste plastic,
0:55.0	how can gardeners change their techniques and materials to become more environmentally friendly?
0:59.0	I'll explain simple changes that can have a big impact to your carbon footprint.
1:04.0	Plus, our advice team tackles some of your spring gardening questions.
1:09.0	And pests! The figures are in, the votes have been counted, and our entomology team can announce the winners
1:15.4	and new entries on the RHS annual Top 10 chart of the most problematic pests in the UK.
1:21.8	Stay tuned to see if slugs and snails can retain their coveted number one spot, or has
1:27.0	a new contender stolen the crown.
1:29.3	But first, as April is here and the snow has hopefully finished for the year, let's head
1:34.3	outside to see what tasks the garden teams have been tackling.
1:39.3	So my name is Verity and I'm the team leader for the Habacious team here at Wisley.
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