Harvest Reflections and The Future of Grow-Your-Own

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We’ve passed the autumn equinox and officially entered harvest season. It’s time to pick apples, pears, and autumn-fruiting raspberries, harvest squashes, beetroot, aubergines, leeks, and much, much more. And, of course, what we can grow and how crops perform is changing. As our climate becomes more unpredictable and more extreme, some of our go-to classics are no longer shoe-in wins. So, this week, we want to honour the harvest season, while also exploring what it means to grow food resiliently – and in a way that benefits both our gardens and our stomachs. We’re stopping by RHS Garden Wisley’s impressive pumpkin patch, discussing the connection between our soil and gut microbiome with Garden Manager Sheila Das, and exploring unusual but sustainable crops that could be staples in the years to come*. Links: Pumpkins and winter squashes: storing Festival of Flavours Vegetables: growing for winter Edible: 70 Sustainable Plants That Are Changing How We Eat *Please note, when foraging, never eat a plant if you aren’t 100% certain of its identification, and check before harvesting that doing so is legal where you are. Follow the Countryside Code and only pick as much as you will use.

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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 add an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:31.6	This afternoon, on an early autumn day, we're standing in the fruit garden at RHS Garden Whizley.
0:38.3	There's the occasional shower, one's just passed, another one I can see in the distance,
0:42.3	but that's bet we'll manage to dodge it.
0:44.3	And what we see in front of us is an area of ground that's possibly about, oh, I would say,
0:49.3	about 400 square meters, and it is covered in the most amazing, glorious, incredible display of ripe
0:57.7	pumpkins and squashes. And it looks absolutely fantastic. We've passed the autumn
1:06.8	equinox and officially entered my favorite time of year, the harvest season.
1:13.0	It's time to pick apples, pears and autumn fruiting raspberries, harvest squashes, beetroot
1:18.7	obogeins, leeks and much, much more.
1:22.3	Really relish the flavours of late September into October.
1:27.2	And of course, what we can grow and how crops perform is changing.
1:31.3	As our climate becomes more unpredictable and more extreme, some of our go-to classics are no longer
1:37.4	shoe-in wins. So this week we want to honour the harvest season season while also exploring what it means to grow
1:45.2	food resiliently and in a way that benefits both our gardens and our stomachs.
1:52.0	We're starting off at RHS Garden Wisley, talking all things pumpkins and squashes.
1:58.3	Garden manager Sheila Das will then walk us through the Soyl Gut Microbiome Connection.
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