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Gardening with the RHS

Veg plotting, gardening on chalky soil and growing blackcurrants

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week we visit Yorkshire to talk to allotmenteer and YouTuber Mothin Ali (MyFamilyGarden), to find out how he's preparing for the growing season ahead. Including tips on chillies, tomatoes and green manures (also known as cover crops). RHS Gardening Advisor Nikki Barker shares expert tips on how to garden on chalky soil. Gareth Richards has an ode to an 'allotment workhorse' – a fragrant shrub with abundant crops of healthy berries – the blackcurrant. Useful links RHS Grow Your Own pages Mothin Ali - My Family Garden (YouTube) Advice on green manures / cover crops How to grow chillies and tomatoes Gardening on chalk How to grow blackcurrants

Transcript

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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 add an RHS garden near you.

0:23.6

Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.

0:29.6

If you do have cover crops in the ground, now's a great time to get them chopped back and cut them all the way back down to the ground.

0:36.6

I mean you can just chop and drop them and they'll just...

0:40.0

Like many of us, YouTube gardener Moffin Alley has been busy recently.

0:45.0

So the first thing on the list of my jobs for this month is to get your beds mulched and your beds

0:49.4

prepared for the next season.

0:51.2

Rather than leave a patch of soil uncovered, take advantage of a gap in the growing season or the gap in your growing timetable and build soil fertility.

1:00.0

Moffins completely right. Now is a great time to improve your soil. Making sure it's nutrient rich and fertile is something we'll be talking about over the next few weeks.

1:11.6

Starting with a tricky but exciting soil type, chalk.

1:15.6

It brings opportunities to recreate a type of garden that actually most people wouldn't have.

1:22.6

We'll also hear how the fragrant black current brings joy. In the gardeners year, I think there are a few scents that really evoke a really particular time.

1:33.3

Like for example, the scent of an autumn bonfire, the scent of the first frost as you go out on a frosty morning,

1:38.3

and another one for me is the smell of those black current bushes.

1:42.3

Plenty to be digging, sewing and tending to, so let's get gardening with the RHS.

1:53.8

I'm Guy Barta.

1:55.9

Last time we spoke to Moffin Alley, who gives out gardening advice on his YouTube channel, My Family Garden.

2:02.9

He was telling us all about his love of potatoes.

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