Question and answer special - Growing in pots and containers

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Do you have problems with your pots or suffer complications with your containers? Luckily help is at hand as our RHS gardening advisors and scientists sit down to help listeners get the best from their potted plant treasures. Topics include which compost to use, how to deal with pests and diseases and to crock or not to crock!

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
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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 five's go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:43.4	Hello and welcome to the special edition of the Royal Horticultural Society's podcast.
0:46.3	Today we're talking about container gardening.
0:49.8	I'm Lee Hunt, one of the RHS gardening advice team.
0:55.0	Each year we answer questions from thousands of RHS members all around the country. We've received an intriguing range of problems from plant care, plant identification, pest and diseases, gardening design inquiries, growing your own fruit and vegetables, and many more.
1:06.0	Our team do our best to try and solve as many as possible.
1:10.0	Container gardening is one of those subjects that the advice team receives many inquiries
1:14.3	about.
1:15.7	Containers are able to grow on patios and balconies in window boxes and hanging baskets.
1:20.8	You can grow flowers, fruit, vegetables, shrubs, you can even create a small pond in a container. Plants in containers do require more care
1:29.5	than those directly grown in the ground, and it's a subject that seems to confuse and worry many
1:33.8	gardeners what to grow, what growing medium or soil to use. How should they water and feed? But it
1:40.1	needn't be difficult. So today we've gathered a group of RHS experts to go back to basics
1:46.0	and discuss some of the essential do's and don'ts of growing flowers, fruit and vegetables
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