Watering, sustainable edibles, community gardening

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

How do you grow fruit and veg that doesn't cost the earth? Edible gardening guru Mark Diacono shares tips from his decades of experience growing all kinds of palatable plants as sustainably as possible. RHS Gardening Advisor Leigh Hunt gives tips on how to use less water but still get brilliant results on your plot, and historian Fiona Davison shares her delight at putting together a new digital collection chronicling how gardeners come together to get through tough times. Plus researcher Advolly Richmond tells the forgotten story of 20th century gardening heroine, Norah Lindsay.

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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.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:30.1	Hello Spring, roll on summer with Garden Man.
0:33.0	The outdoor furniture superstore is now online with loads in stock, from sofa sets to daybeds to
0:38.3	sunlangers and plenty more that can be delivered for free this summer.
0:41.9	When you visit gardenman.com.uk slash podcast.
0:49.7	Hello and welcome to gardening with the RHS with me Fiona Davison.
0:54.9	It can be hard to stay motivated in the garden sometimes,
0:58.6	especially when the weather isn't playing along,
1:00.9	something we've all been familiar with in this very strange spring.
1:04.5	So I thought we could all do with some inspiration in this week's show.
1:09.1	We've ideas from all sorts of people, including edible gardening
1:12.8	experts like Mark Diakano. The more you garden in harmony with what nature wants to do, the less
1:19.2	you are fighting at it, the less you are throwing energy at it. And also coming up, we'll be hearing
1:25.3	about amazing landscape designers who lived many years ago.
1:29.3	In garden history, people regurgitate the same names all the time.
1:35.3	And I just think that there are people that are worth talking about.
1:40.3	And I think Nora Lindsay is perfect.
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