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Back on the Allotment
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
It’s National Allotment Week – a time to celebrate our country’s vast network of allotment plots and re-invest in our own dedication to growing fruit and veg. So for this week’s show, we’re taking a wander through a variety of allotments, getting a behind-the-scenes look at the techniques growers use to get the best out of their crops and examining the ways allotments help us better connect to the food we eat. We return to RHS Chief Horticulturist Guy Barter’s allotment in Surrey, where he shares this season’s successes and failures. We stop by RHS Garden Wisley’s Student and Community allotments to have a look at the different approaches taken there. And finally, we get the history of how allotments became commonplace here in the UK from garden historian and writer Twigs Way.
Links:
Allotment: getting started
Grow Your Own Advice
Tomato blight
Allotments by Twigs Way
Links:
Allotment: getting started
Grow Your Own Advice
Tomato blight
Allotments by Twigs Way
Released:
Aug 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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