Meet the Premier League gardener

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kuda Chimbudzi is a superstar gardener, growing healthy fruit and veg for the Premier League footballers at Tottenham Hotspur FC. Our resident gardening guru Guy Barter heads to north London to check out his award-winning kitchen garden at the club's grounds. Plus we meet Lucy Vincent of Food Behind Bars – a charity that's trying to improve the lives and diets of prisoners through growing food; and Greig Robertson from Edible Estates in Edinburgh, an organisation creating neighbourhood plots to bring fresh food to disadvantaged communities. **Useful links: ** - Read more about the kitchen garden at Tottenham Hotspur FC https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/health-and-wellbeing/real-life-stories/kuda-chimbudzi - The Garden magazine - https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/publications/the-garden - Food Behind Bars https://foodbehindbars.co.uk - Edible Estates http://www.edibleestates.co.uk - [RHS Flourish Fund](https://www.rhs.org.uk/education-learning/bursaries-grants/rhs-bursaries/flourish-fund)

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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, at an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under five-scow-free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:31.6	I'm walking down the path in my garden and have a suggestion for you and how you could help with global warming.
0:38.3	With a large lawn I found a simple way of making a big difference.
0:42.3	I sold my ride-on mower and bought a top of the range Cress robotic lawnmower.
0:47.3	It runs off rechargeable batteries and uses cutting-edge technology to mow and maintain a lawn their size. The petrol mower
0:55.9	has gone, and with it, the emissions. I actually don't know why I didn't sell the Rydon sooner.
1:02.1	With the Cress robotic lawn mower, the lawn is actually looking better. The tiny grass
1:06.8	cuttings fall into the grassroots, helping to fertilise the grass, and the family doesn't have to put up with the noise and fumes from the right on.
1:14.7	And I've freed up more of my time to spend with them and in the garden.
1:19.0	It's an easy step, and you could also be making that change today.
1:24.1	Ask for Cress in your local garden machinery dealer or visit cress.com.
1:30.3	Who do you garden for?
1:35.3	Many of us grow for ourselves.
1:38.3	We plant food to eat or design beautiful floral displays to enjoy throughout the seasons.
1:50.4	But today on gardening with the RHS, with me, Guy Barta, we're gardening for others.
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