A Little Bit Green

Hot lawns, crispy shrubs, and a garden that’s suddenly producing more food than two hosts can handle. If you’ve ever wondered how to keep plants alive through a brutal heatwave - or how to turn even a small patch into something seriously productive - this episode is packed with practical, very real gardening chaos.Matt Richardson and Angela Barnes start with the summer damage: scorched lawns, stressed acers, and the slightly terrifying moment a butane weed burner nearly set the garden alight. But the conversation quickly turns into the good kind of obsession - raised beds, gravel gardens, veg patches, fig trees, pumpkins, and the strange joy of handing beetroot to your neighbours because you’ve grown too much of it.

Matt and Angela also talk about the bigger shift happening in British gardens right now - from ornamental lawns to edible, resilient spaces that can actually feed you. There’s a lot of optimism here, but also a practical edge: what do you do when the weather is extreme, the garden is young, and everything feels like it might just give up?Perfect for gardeners who want honest advice, fresh ideas, and a reminder that even a messy, half-burned, sun-scorched garden can still be the start of something exciting.Guest credibility: Megan Green from Hayloft joins later in the episode, bringing her plant expertise from one of the UK’s best-known online plant retailers.

Use code BITGREEN5 for £5 off at Hayloft.

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This week we are joined by Michael Griffiths - the wonderful instagram gardening superstar and author of the new gardening book 'The Easy Garden'

Matt reveals his new purchase and Angela admits to some brutal garden behaviour

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This episode we are joined by Penny Dommett - not only is she a flower farmer & garden designer she's also our friends mum - Comedian & Presenter Joel Dommett.

Penny was so wonderful, teaching us all about Flowers, easy plants for an easy life and her knowledge is so brilliant.

You can follow Penny on instagram @pennydommett

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Welcome to A Little Bit Green! A Brand new podcast where new gardeners (and comedians) Matt Richardson and Angela Barnes chat to gardening experts to work out how to make their gardens shine!

Our First episode we chat to the wonderful Gardening With Ish - a man who's taken his pure joy of gardening onto the internet and taken it by storm! He gives us some helpful tips and we ask him questions from our followers

You can follow Ish here:

https://www.youtube.com/@Today-In-The-Garden

Instagram.com/gardening.with.ish

@Angelabarnsey

@mattrichardson3

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