Low-carbon gardening

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that running a petrol lawnmower for an hour can create the same carbon emissions as driving a car for 93 miles? Or that using peat-free compost in your garden is a great way to save wildlife and cut your carbon footprint? This week's show is all about the ways we can all make a difference on our doorstep. Featuring Catherine Cutler from The Eden Project, author Sally Nex and no-dig gardening guru Charles Dowding. Plus the latest in our series celebrating the unsung heroes of horticulture: the inspirational story of George Washington Carver; born a slave, he overcame overwhelming obstacles to become one of the most eminent and forward-thinking scientists of his day.

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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.
0:33.1	Welcome to Gardening with the RHS.
0:35.9	I'm Fiona Davison.
0:38.0	And in today's show, we're going to look at how to be a low-carbon gardener.
0:43.1	But in order to really understand how grows can have an impact on climate change,
0:47.6	we're going to start somewhere a little bit more hot and humid.
0:51.9	Particularly early in the morning, you get this deep, earthy scent.
0:55.9	It's damp and humid all the time.
0:58.9	Occasionally you get like bursts of humidity as you walk around the space.
1:04.5	We have some very shy tree frogs and these little tropical partridges that run around your feet and they are so cute.
1:13.8	Meet Catherine Cutler. You might think she's describing somewhere far away from the UK.
1:19.3	But in fact, she's talking about a rainforest but one that's in Cornwall.
1:24.7	She's the biomes manager at the Eden Project, an educational charity that's home to the
1:30.2	world's largest captive indoor rainforest. She'll be taking us inside these iconic geodesic
1:36.8	domes in just a second. A rainforest is one of the most effective places for storing carbon.
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