4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm walking down the path in my garden and I have a suggestion for you and how you could help with global warming. |
0:09.0 | With a large lawn I found a simple way of making a big difference. |
0:13.0 | I sold my ride on mower and bought a top of the range Cress robotic lawnmower. |
0:19.0 | It runs off rechargeable batteries and uses cutting-edge technology to mow and maintain a lawn this size. |
0:25.6 | The petrol mower has gone, and with it, the emissions. |
0:29.6 | I actually don't know why I didn't sell the right on sooner. |
0:32.6 | With the Cress robotic lawn mower, the lawn is actually looking better. |
0:36.6 | The tiny grass cuttings fall into the grass roots, helping to fertilise the grass. |
0:41.6 | And the family doesn't have to put up with the noise and fumes from the ride on. |
0:45.8 | And I've freed up more of my time to spend with them and in the garden. |
0:50.1 | It's an easy step. |
0:52.0 | And you could also be making that change today. |
0:55.2 | Ask for Cress in your local garden machinery dealer, or visit cress.com. |
1:16.6 | Since the 19th century, an area between Leeds, Wakefield and Bradford, known as the rhubarb triangle, has been world-renowned for producing bright, pink, tender stems of rhubarb out of season. |
1:21.6 | Forced in dark heated sheds and picked by candlelight, the rhubarb shoots up so rapidly you can actually hear it growing. |
1:31.3 | At its peak there were over 200 growers in the area but now it's barely a dozen. |
1:36.3 | However, forced Yorkshire rhubarb is still very important to the region. |
1:40.3 | In fact, it has protected designation origin, like Champagne or Rockfall. |
1:44.9 | Right now, we're just a stone's far away from that famous rhubarb triangle in an immersive |
1:49.7 | exhibit with planting designed by Olivia Copley and sound design by artist Duncan Chapman. |
1:56.4 | Now, this is a fantastic interior exhibit, very unusual for an RHS flower show, where you're bought into a dark tent, |
2:03.3 | where you can hear the snap and crackle of the rhubarb growing amongst candlelit stems, |
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