It's harvest time! Celebrating homegrown produce and seasonal GYO advice (Ep 140)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode is jam-packed with helpful info on growing your own fruit and veg, including pumpkins and squashes, courgettes, garlic, pears, French and runner beans and more. Plus the Garden Advisors discuss banishing an over-enthusiastic Virginia creeper and growing cut flowers for a wedding. For more info 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 16 to five pounds.
0:36.5	Hello, today in the RHS gardening podcast, we're celebrating the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness as our thoughts turned to autumn.
0:45.3	We'll be visiting RHS Garden Wisley to hear how the extreme weather of 2018 has affected this year's harvest of fruit and vegetables.
0:58.1	Plus, our expert advice team tackles a bumper crop of your seasonal gardening questions.
1:07.7	I'm Fiona Davison. I'm the head of exhibitions and libraries at the RHS.
1:12.6	Our collections are crammed with lovely things to get you excited about the autumn. I think my
1:17.6	favourites are the Yokohama nursery catalogues from Japan in the early 1900s, and they're
1:22.6	crammed with dual-coloured aces to get us excited about the colours of autumn.
1:34.8	Now let's talk about one of the perennial symbols of autumn.
1:39.8	The kings, or maybe the crown princes of the harvest, pumpkins and squashes.
1:46.0	We went along to the recent RHS Harvest Festival show at the Lindley Hall in London. This year, pumpkins and squashes were undoubtedly the stars of the show,
1:50.0	with the winners of the annual giant pumpkin competition dominating the entrance way,
1:55.0	along with a huge display of fruits which delighted the visitors.
1:59.0	My name is Matthew Oliver.
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