28 min

Sustainable plant combos, GYO tips (for tomatoes, beetroot, squash), flowering shrubs Gardening with the RHS

    • Home & Garden

Do you ever fall in love with a plant, buy it, but then not know what to pair it with? Principal Horticultural Advisor James Lawrence introduces his guide to creating planting combinations that don’t just look good, but have a sustainability impact too. Guy Barter shares seasonal tips for establishing tomatoes, beetroot, and winter pumpkins and squash – helping you to set up for the Grow Your Own season. And Jack Aldridge, a horticulturist who looks after Oakwood at RHS Garden Wisley, will be singing an ode to his favourite flowering shrub, the Stachyurus. 
 
Presenter: Guy Barter
 
Contributors: James Lawrence, Jack Aldridge 
 
Links: 
Oakwood at RHS Garden Wisley
How to grow tomatoes
How to grow beetroot
How to grow pumpkins
Stachyurus praecox
Stachyurus chinensis
RHS Gardening advice / ChatBotanist

Do you ever fall in love with a plant, buy it, but then not know what to pair it with? Principal Horticultural Advisor James Lawrence introduces his guide to creating planting combinations that don’t just look good, but have a sustainability impact too. Guy Barter shares seasonal tips for establishing tomatoes, beetroot, and winter pumpkins and squash – helping you to set up for the Grow Your Own season. And Jack Aldridge, a horticulturist who looks after Oakwood at RHS Garden Wisley, will be singing an ode to his favourite flowering shrub, the Stachyurus. 
 
Presenter: Guy Barter
 
Contributors: James Lawrence, Jack Aldridge 
 
Links: 
Oakwood at RHS Garden Wisley
How to grow tomatoes
How to grow beetroot
How to grow pumpkins
Stachyurus praecox
Stachyurus chinensis
RHS Gardening advice / ChatBotanist

28 min

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