Gardening with pets, our new Editor and crop rotation explained

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week we're discovering how to garden the pet-friendly way. Whether that's making a dog-proof garden, keeping cats at bay or growing food for small animals such as guinea pigs and rabbits – there's lots you can do to keep plants, people and pets all happy together. Author, dog lover and RHS Senior Horticultural Advisor Helen Bostock explains how. Author and organic veg grower Claire Ratinon shares her love of chicken keeping and offers tips on how to keep birds and plants in happy balance. We meet the new Editor of The Garden magazine, Tom Howard, who offers a sneak peek into the upcoming May edition. RHS gardening advisor Leigh Hunt gives advice on crop rotation in the vegetable plot and we hop along to Leonardslee Gardens in Sussex to meet some rather unusual residents...

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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.
0:31.6	Welcome to gardening with the RHS.
0:34.1	I'm Fiona Davidson.
0:36.2	Now most of us will have had a special animal at home that keeps us on our
0:39.9	toes, whether it's cats, dogs, rabbits, chickens, even wallabies, and more on that later. Pets bring
0:46.8	so much joy, but sometimes it can be hard to have both a happy pet and a beautiful garden.
0:53.3	So I'd like to help.
0:55.6	In today's show, we're going to hear how to garden in a pet-friendly way,
0:59.9	with advisor and animal expert Helen Bostock.
1:03.1	We'll chat chickens with organic food grower and writer Claire Ratonan,
1:07.5	and we head to Lennardsley Gardens for something quite unexpected.
1:12.5	Plus, we're meeting the Garden magazine's new editor and talking about how to succeed with
1:17.5	crop rotation, so plenty to be thinking about.
1:26.7	So let's start with household pets. I'm joined now by Helen Bostock. So hello Helen.
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