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Publisher |: Royal Horticultural Society

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Games & Hobbies,; Gardening

Categories Via RSS |: Home & Garden,; Leisure

'Gardening with the RHS' offers seasonal advice, inspiration and practical solutions to gardening problems. Trusted gardening professionals give you the latest horticultural advice, scientific research and tried and tested techniques to bring out the best in your garden.

Topics covered include: growing your own vegetables, flowers, garden design, lawn care and gardening with children. Plus expert masterclasses in topics ranging from cottage garden plants, growing orchids, to pest control and eco-friendly gardening.

Plus we’ll have behind the scenes reports from the country’s most prestigious flower shows. There’s something in these podcasts to interest every gardener, whatever your level of expertise. For more info see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

A Pixiu Production

Premiere Date |: 2013-02-20
Frequency |: Weekly
Explicit |: No

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298 Available Episodes (298 Total) / Average duration: 00:25:22

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298 Available Episodes (298 Total)Average duration: 00:25:22

Jan 20, 2022

00:19:25

Veg growing from Brooklyn to Basingstoke

This week's programme is dedicated to vegetable growing. You can grow veg almost anywhere - as New Yorker Kofi Thomas proves with his inspirational story of how he created The Good Life Garden from a former dumping ground in the heart of Brooklyn. It's a project that has improved the lives of thousands of Long Island residents and has distributed literally tons of fresh homegrown fruit and veg to people in need.

Regular presenters Guy Barter and Verity Battyll of RHS Garden Wisley offer seasonal veg growing tips and share their successes and failures growing unusual crops in the UK climate. Plus Kamal Bell, CEO of Sankofa Farms in North Carolina tells us all about a crop that's close to his heart - okra.

Useful links

RHS Grow Your Own - edible gardening hub
The Good Life Garden
RHS Garden Wisley
Sankofa Farms

Jan 13, 2022

00:21:03

A magical airborne plant, elderflowers and the origins of hybrids

This week we're working with plants through time and across the world. Author and previous guest on the show Jonathan Drori explores more incredible plants from across the globe, including Tillandsia (Spanish moss) from the American Deep South. It's a mysterious relative of the pineapple plant that has almost no roots yet is woven into the history and culture of the southern states. > Historian Fiona Davison tells the story of Thomas Fairchild, a London man who made the first ever intentional plant hybrid. Plus Anna Greenland presents the last of our grow-your-own beverages series with a look at elderflower.

Useful links: ►Find out more about tillandsias (also known as Spanish moss or airplant) ►Find suppliers of elder plants

Contributors: ►Fiona Davison, Head of RHS Libraries and Exhibitions ►Jonathan Drori, author of Around the World in 80 Plants ►Anna Greenland, author of Grow Easy

Jan 06, 2022

00:19:24

New Year's resolutions, top 5 plants, sustainable GYO

Happy New Year from the RHS podcast team! This week's programme is all about looking forward to a green and pleasant 2022. Wisley’s Guy Barter and Verity Battyll discuss their 5 must-grow plants for 2022, while gardening advisor James Lawrence shares his top 5 seasonal jobs. Plus RHS editor and allotmenteer Gareth Richards offers advice on how to grow fruit and veg in a sustainable way.

Useful links:

Selected plants mentioned

Good King Henry - Chenopodium bonus-henricus
Tiger nuts - Cyperus esculentus
Nerine bowdenii

Dec 30, 2021

00:25:32

Unseen garden heroes, a rose for John and spuds to savour

What a year 2021 has been for gardening! We've had weird weather, an autumn Chelsea Flower Show, a peat ban, RHS Bridgewater opening… the list goes on. This week we're looking back to some of our podcast highlights, including delving into the tiny but terrifying world of parasitic wasps with RHS Wisley scientist Magdalena Boshoff who explains how these insects do an amazing job destroying garden pests.

Zehra Zaidi tells the story of how she helped name a rose after a trailblazing black gardener - the first rose to be named after an ethnic minority Briton. Allotmenteer and YouTuber Mothin Ali (@MyFamilyGarden) shares tips on growing the perfect potato and RHS Chief Horticulturist Guy Barter gazes into his crystal ball and gives his predictions for gardening in 2022. Plus garden designers Ann-Marie Powell, Humaira Ikram and Lee Burkhill share their thoughts on what they'll be focusing on next year.

Dec 23, 2021

00:24:47

Mistletoe, winter garden plants and a homegrown cocktail

This week's programme is bursting with seasonal greenery. Award-winning writer and RHS blogger Graham Rice explains how to grow a Yuletide favourite and one of our most mysterious native plants – mistletoe. Then we hop 'over the pond' for the latest in our Hidden Horticulturists series to explore the life of one of the 20th century's greatest botanists: holly expert Dr Shiu-Ying Hu.

Meanwhile back at RHS Garden Wisley, Verity Battyll describes her favourite plants to brighten up winter gardens, and Devon-based food writer Mark Diacono shares his personal recipe for a delicious homegrown lemon verbena cocktail.

Useful links

Grow your own mistletoe
Dr Shiu-Ying Hu
RHS Garden Wisley
Find out more about hellebore breeding
See our Popular plants pages for more info on hollies, hellebores and other winter plants
Sour - a book by Mark Diacono

Dec 16, 2021

00:22:42

How gardening helps build mental and physical health

When a successful lawyer suffered a debilitating stroke, it turned her life upside down. Meet Bhupinder Sohanpal as she explains how she rebuilt herself through gardening with the help of the Wisley Community Allotments programme.

The Horticultural Therapy Trust is a charity which uses gardening to help support people facing long-term mental health issues and brain injuries: its Project Manager Deb Hoskin tells the stories of some of the people who've benefitted.

Plus, organic food grower Anna Greenland shares a recipe for a traditional homegrown, home-made winter pick me up – fire cider.

Useful links

Gardening for health and wellbeing (RHS website)
therapy-trust.org">The Horticultural Therapy Trust
Wisley Community Allotments
Grow Easy by Anna Greenland (book)

Dec 09, 2021

00:25:16

A celebration of gardening books and garden writing

Cold winter nights are the perfect time to get reading, so this week’s podcast is a celebration of gardening books and garden writing. Writer and BAFTA award-winning TV producer Jonathan Drori takes us around the world in 80 plants while RHS authors Fiona Davison and Gareth Richards discuss their favourite books of the year. Plus a look at how gardening newsletters are bringing fresh ideas to the horticultural world.

Useful links: ►RHS bookshop ►Radicle newsletter ►RHS libraries ►Borrow E-books

Books mentioned in this programme:

Around the World in 80 Plants – Jonathan Drori

Flower-Name Fancies – Guy-Pierre Fauconnet

RHS Weeds – Gareth Richards

The Hidden Horticulturists – Fiona Davison

Vegetables: The Definitive Guide for Gardeners – Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix

How to Garden the Low-Carbon Way – Sally Nex

Spirit of Place – Susan Owens

Tropical Plants and How to Love Them – Marianne Willburn

Dec 02, 2021

00:24:03

Allies beneath our feet, in the trees and the plant-hunter you've never heard of

Did you know that there are 30 different species of worm in the UK? Or that fungi can actually help create habitats for wildlife? This week we're exploring the roles played these crucial but often overlooked garden residents. Back indoors we meet a hidden hero of horticulture - ‘likely the most prolific botanical explorer of the early 20th century’. Staff from RHS Garden Wisley and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh join forces to tell his story.

Useful links: ►Find out more about earthworms ►Worm composting advice ►A hidden hero of horticulture: Zhao Chengzhang

Contributors: Andrew Salisbury, Jassy Drakulic, Leonie Paterson and Yvette Harvey

Nov 25, 2021

00:23:45

The tastiest and hardiest kale varieties grow and how to beat the winter cold with a warming and delicious sloe gin

Learn how to grow winter veg staple (and superfood) kale with RHS expert Guy Barter, who recommends the best varieties and explains how to keep problems at bay. There's also great advice on when and how to protect tender plants from the winter cold, and chef Mark Diacono tells us how to make delicious and warming sloe gin from the fruit of the blackthorn bush.

Useful links: ►How to grow kale Kale varieties mentioned: Tuscan kale - 'Cavolo Nero' or 'Nero di Toscana') 'Redbor' ►How to lift or mulch tender plants ►How to wrap tender plants ► Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)

Contributors: ►Mark Diacono ►Guy Barter

Nov 18, 2021

00:27:44

Kuda Chimbudzi is a superstar gardener, growing healthy fruit and veg for the Premier League footballers at Tottenham Hotspur FC. Our resident gardening guru Guy Barter heads to north London to check out his award-winning kitchen garden at the club's grounds. Plus we meet Lucy Vincent of Food Behind Bars – a charity that's trying to improve the lives and diets of prisoners through growing food; and Greig Robertson from Edible Estates in Edinburgh, an organisation creating neighbourhood plots to bring fresh food to disadvantaged communities. **Useful links: ** - Read more about the kitchen garden at Tottenham Hotspur FC https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/health-and-wellbeing/real-life-stories/kuda-chimbudzi - The Garden magazine - https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/publications/the-garden - Food Behind Bars https://foodbehindbars.co.uk - Edible Estates http://www.edibleestates.co.uk - [RHS Flourish Fund](https://www.rhs.org.uk/education-learning/bursaries-grants/rhs-bursaries/flourish-fund)

Jan 20 | 00:19:25

The Edible Edition Part 4

Jan 13 | 00:21:03

Hoxton to hedgerows and hoodoo

Jan 06 | 00:19:24

A fresh start in the garden

Dec 30 | 00:25:32

Highlights of 2021

Dec 23 | 00:24:47

Grow your own kisses

Dec 16 | 00:22:42

Feel-good gardening

Dec 09 | 00:25:16

2021 Books special

Dec 02 | 00:24:03

Unexpected garden heroes

Nov 25 | 00:23:45

Cracking good kale and sloes to savour

Nov 18 | 00:27:44

Meet the Premier League gardener

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