Growing Greener - Peat Free gardening with Alistair Griffiths and Nick Hamilton

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The countdown to peat-free has begun, is this the end of gardening as we know it? Professor Alistair Griffiths, Director of Science and Collections at the RHS, and Nick Hamilton, from Barnsdale Gardens, think not. They discuss with Arit why preserving our peat bogs is so vital, sharing their in-depth knowledge of peat, as well as the upcoming changes to UK legislation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.3	Hello and welcome to the BBC Gardner's World magazine podcast, brought to you by the team
0:44.0	here at the magazine. Join us as we chat all things gardening with the nation's favourite experts.
0:59.2	Many of us gardeners really believe that we're here to help the planet increase biodiversity, knowing that garden is good for our well-being.
1:03.9	But there's one product that we use almost on a daily, weekly basis, that it's got huge
1:09.5	environmental impact.
1:12.9	It's pretty cheap. We use it all the time. It makes our plants grow very healthily. But what is the environmental cost of using this
1:19.2	product? So what am I talking about? Pete. But from next year, it's going to be banned for the
1:25.2	use for amateur gardeners. So what does this mean? What are going to be the alternatives? Today I's going to be banned for the use for amateur gardeners. So what does this mean?
1:28.5	What are going to be the alternatives?
1:30.4	Today, I'm going to be talking to two experts that can take us through this journey of what it means to be peat-free.
1:37.7	I'm really excited to have two major players in the studio.
1:43.3	Well, one is online, and that is Alecester Griffith, who is the
1:46.0	Director of Science at the RHS. Hello. How you doing? So it's great that you can be here on the
1:50.9	growing greener podcast. And in the studio, have Nick Hamilton, and it's brilliant to see you here, Nick.
1:58.1	And I know we're going to hear more about you as well, so thank you.
2:00.9	It's a pleasure, thank you. Okay, well, great to have you both here. So this is about Pete,
2:07.3	a lot of controversy in the press, in our industry, confusion, upset, all sorts of emotions
2:14.6	that you wouldn't really think that Pete could give, but it does.
2:18.9	So Alistair, I'm going to just go in with a really simple question.
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