Growing tomatoes and patio strawberries

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week's show is a bulging barrowful of edible gardening advice. RHS Horticulturists Guy Barter and Lenka Cooke discuss how to grow tomatoes, recommended tomato varieties and ways to beat blight. The Gardening Advice team gather to debate the best strawberries to grow on a patio and how to get rid of scale insects on a lemon tree. Plus seasonal gardening jobs to do in March.

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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.
0:19.5	Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
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.
0:37.2	I'm Guy Bartow and welcome to the RHS Gardening Podcast.
0:41.8	It feels like we're getting into the full swing of gardening.
0:45.5	Spring is around the corner and the green fingered across the country are busy bustling outside.
0:51.1	So we're packing today's show full of advice for you.
0:55.7	I've come out into the vegetable garden here at Wisley to discuss a big feature of tables across the country, tomatoes. As a keen allotment
1:02.2	here, I know it is probably about time to start sewing tomatoes, but each year I always find
1:07.7	myself asking questions like, what variety should I go for?
1:11.2	How is best the plan to protect them?
1:13.5	I'm feeling confused already.
1:15.8	Thankfully, here to provide some clarity is Lenka Cook, one of the RHS horticultural advisors.
1:21.4	Hi, Lenka.
1:22.2	Hello.
1:23.0	Here we are in mid-March, and I guess it's time to get busy with the tomato job.
1:26.9	What are you up to these days?
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