Winter Preparation & The Case for No-Dig

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week, we journey through RHS Garden Wisley, capturing some of its autumnal beauty while also looking ahead as winter edges ever closer. Garden Manager Sheila Das chats with us about her no-dig journey, entomologist Dr. Seirian Sumner fills us in on wasps’ winter preparation, and finally, Wisley advisors provide a seasonal Q&A. Links: How to grow a No-Dig Garden How to improve your soil with the ‘No Dig’ technique Endless Forms: Why We Should Love Wasps Leafmould Mulches and mulching Preventing winter damage Autumn-interest shrubs

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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 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.
0:33.6	I stood at the top of the Alpine Meadow, RHS Garden Wisley and it's a kaleidoscope of colour.
0:39.3	I love this time of year because the grass is so deep green and it's studded with beautiful blue and purple autumn crocus
0:47.3	and the trees are lighting up individually. They're all turning different shades of orange and purple and red and it's like a light show.
0:57.0	It's just magical.
0:58.0	And joining me today is Melissa Mabit, who's executive editor of The Garden Magazine.
1:03.0	Hi Melissa.
1:04.0	Hey, Gareth, it's good to be here.
1:06.0	And I completely agree, Wisley is putting on such a lovely show.
1:10.0	The hydrangeas are just going into
1:11.7	their kind of antique cafes where some of the flowers take on kind of vintage tones of
1:16.9	top and they just look beautiful and they will continue to look beautiful well into winter. And the
1:21.7	daily trial field I found is an education in which ones will stand up to a chill because there's
1:26.9	already been a frost here
1:28.1	and some of them have really kind of blackened a bit, but some of them are still looking really
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Royal Horticultural Society, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Royal Horticultural Society and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.