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Gardening with the RHS

Money-saving gardening and seasonal veg tips

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week's programme is stuffed with barrowloads of seasonal kitchen gardening advice from organic grower for top chefs Anna Greenland. RHS Chief Horticulturist Guy Barter offers a guide to harvesting sweetcorn and author Alys Fowler shares some hard-won thrifty gardening wisdom. Useful links Grow your own (RHS website) Grow Easy by Anna Greenland The Thrifty Gardener by Alys Fowler (eBook)

Transcript

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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.

0:23.6

Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds. On a voyage across the United States at 58 and somewhere between Maine and California,

0:41.6

John Steinbeck wrote,

0:43.2

What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give its sweetness?

0:47.5

And although it's not winter yet, the burning heat of summer has started to wane as August

0:52.2

finally creeps to a close.

0:54.0

And as temperatures

0:55.2

cool there's nowhere I'd rather be than the sweet pastures of my allotment.

1:01.1

If you need your memory jogged on what to do, vegetable gardener to the stars, Anna Greenland

1:06.3

will be filling us in on the job she's getting started on now ahead of autumn. And if you've got a golden field of sweet corn but are unsure when to harvest it, don't fret.

1:15.6

I'll be talking you through what to spot to make sure you reap a delicious bucket for.

1:21.6

But if what you want right now is some reassurance that gardening will remain accessible to you in the coming months as the purse strings draw ever tighter,

1:30.3

and stick around as we'll be chatting with journalist and horticulturist Alice Fowler for some priceless tips and tricks.

1:37.3

Welcome to Gardening with the RHS with me Guy Barta.

1:42.3

The blazing heat of summer is no-time. with me Guy Barta.

1:51.3

The blazing heat of summer is no time to be laboring outdoors, but now at our cloudy British skies are starting to shift back into place, I think it's time to be getting back to work.

1:56.8

And the expert that'll be kicking us into gear comes with some whopping credentials.

2:01.3

She's grown food for some of the greatest Michelin star chefs out there, including Raymond Blanc

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