Tasty Toms, Hydrangeas & Bokashi

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Spring is in the air, and it’s time to get your hands dirty! This week, we’re diving into the juicy world of tomatoes with Liz Mooney from the RHS Garden Wisley edibles team. She shares some of her best tried and tested cultivars and expert advice on how to grow a bumper crop. Plus, if hydrangeas are on your planting list, renowned woody plant collector and hybridizer Maurice Foster will be picking out some of his favourites. And finally, we’re tackling food waste head-on – Jenny Laville and composting guru Heather Gorringe break down worm farms, compost heaps, and bokashi bins to help you turn scraps into garden gold! Host: Gareth Richards Contributors: Liz Mooney, Maurice Foster, Jenny Laville, Heather Gorringe Links: How to Grow Tomatoes Wiggly Wigglers How to stop throwing away food waste – with or without a garden Bokashi composting The Hydrangea - A Reappraisal White House Farm Garden and Arboretum White House Farm Hydrangea open days: June 28th and August 23rd

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.1	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.
0:23.6	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:30.6	I was coming off a very steep mountain and we were looking for a quick way down.
0:36.6	I decided I could get down by ab-sailing using bamboo,
0:41.3	which was all the way down in the mountain.
0:44.3	And it was almost a vertical slope.
0:47.3	Yippee, I was seven-eighths of the way down.
0:50.3	And of course the bamboo gave way.
0:53.3	So I went tumble, tumble, tumble and ended upside down in a bush.
0:59.0	And that bush was hydrangeous stylosa.
1:07.0	For most gardeners, adding a new hydrangea to the collection means a simple trip to the local garden centre.
1:15.3	But for Morris Foster, his passion for these woody plants has taken him across the globe,
1:20.2	sometimes in rather dramatic fashion.
1:23.3	Back on firmer ground in his seven-acre White House Farm arboretum in Kent,
1:28.9	Morris has cultivated an amazing collection of woody plants, magnolias, rhododendrons, chameleas and of course hydrangeas,
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