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Gardening with the RHS

The edible edition

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week we're talking all things edible with a programme entirely devoted to growing your own fruit and vegetables. Award-winning garden designer Juliet Sargeant shares veg garden wisdom in a piece that's a must-listen for anyone starting out on a homegrown journey. Allotment holder and Instagram gardener Kirsty Ward shares her life-long love of gooseberries, along with tips on how to grow them. Plus the RHS Gardening Advice Team answer listeners' questions on crop rotation, Florence fennel and growing veg in the shade.

Transcript

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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.

0:23.7

At an RHS garden near you.

0:25.5

Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.

0:34.3

Over the past few months, my love for growing fruit and vegetables been reignited.

0:39.5

I've dug over a flower patch and devoted it to beans, too many cogettes, tomatoes, kale, and one solitary artichoke.

0:49.9

And it seems like I'm not on my own.

0:52.4

From tomatoes to turnips to time,

0:54.8

social media is a wash with photographs of veg patches

0:57.6

and edible gardening in even the tiniest spaces.

1:04.2

I'm Fiona Davison, and welcome to gardening with the RHS.

1:10.2

In today's show, we're getting our folks out, both the garden and the kitchen varieties,

1:15.5

and we're learning how to grow the best plants for our plates.

1:21.9

Of course, one of the joys of growing your own produce is getting to eat fresh fruit

1:25.9

and veg. I'm definitely a fan of a plate full of delicious treats grown in my own garden.

1:31.4

And one of my favourite things is picking tomatoes hot from the garden sun,

1:35.7

and I'm afraid not a lot of them make their way back into the kitchen.

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