Top 10 pests revealed, life after slug pellets, children's gardening questions answered, dealing with box problems and more (Ep 150)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As the annual Hit Parade of garden nasties is revealed, Entomologist Andy Salisbury shares the results and offers advice on how to deal with them. Meanwhile the Gardening Advice team gathers to debate questions sent in from young gardeners at St Patrick's School in Stratford, including whether you can grow flowers from flowers and how to tell a good caterpillar from a bad one. And following the recent announcement of a forthcoming ban on metaldehyde-based slug pellets, our resident gastropod guru Dr Hayley Jones offers research-based advice on slug and snail control. Plus questions from members on box problems, growing your own dye plants and dealing with blackfly. For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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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 at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:33.8	Hello and welcome back to the RHS gardening podcast.
0:39.9	I'm Guy Barta, chief horticulturist here at the RHS. In today's podcast, as RHS scientists reveal which
0:46.8	pests gardeners reported as the most problematic in 2018, we're focusing on garden nasties.
0:53.8	We'll review the results of the top 10 charts of pest
0:56.6	problems, plus we'll hear how research into slug deterrence is progressing, and how new legislation
1:03.6	about chemical controls and slug pellets might impact gardeners.
1:14.2	Hello, what an incredibly mild February we had.
1:19.1	It gave me the chance to get ahead sewing carrots and parsnips, which is really important because if we have a dry summer, the carrots and parsnips will have deep, long roots that
1:23.2	will be able to suck moisture out of the soil and save watering.
1:27.1	So, after a good start to the season,
1:29.6	let's join the garden advice team at Wisley as they tackle some of your spring gardening queries.
1:35.5	Hello, I'm Lee Hunt and again we're here to answer your questions. This time I'm joined by
1:41.0	Jenny Bowden and Rebecca Mealy. Hi.
1:44.8	Hello there.
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