BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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Join the team from BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine as we share lively conversation about all things gardening. We’ll be exploring growing for health and for wildlife, success with homegrown food and flowers, making a thriving garden for you and your family to enjoy, plus how to green up your indoors, and much more. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or are just setting out on your growing journey, we promise you an enjoyable – and useful – escape into gardening with every episode.

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Growing Greener - Supportin...

09.21.2023

Wildlife gardener and writer Kate Bradbury joins Arit to discuss how and why gardeners can play a vital role helping reverse the decline of wildlife. Kate shares some ingenious, innovative, and easy suggestions for how you can use your plot ...

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09.21.2023 Growing Greener - Supporting Urban Birds and Wildlife with Kate Bradbury Wildlife gardener and writer Kate Bradbury joins Arit to discuss how and why gardeners can play a vital role helping reverse the decline of wildlife. Kate shares some ingenious, innovative, and easy suggestions for how you can use your plot ...
09.19.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - How to Plant a Shrub Discover from Alan why autumn is the perfect season for planting shrubs – and how to ensure your investment pays you back for years of pleasure to come Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
09.14.2023 Growing Greener - Great Dixter: A Sustainability Success Story, with Fergus Garrett Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener of Great Dixter launches the series with a discussion of how you can garden for good: how you can use both environmentally sound gardening techniques and have a stunning garden. You don’t have to choose one ...
09.13.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - How to Revive your Lawn Revive your lawn with a few simple steps. Whether you’re after a close cut lawn with perfect stripes or a longer, more wild effect, let Alan help you make a plan of action to keep it in top condition, in ...
09.06.2023 Growing Greener with Arit Anderson Season 2 Trailer Host Arit Anderson, garden designer and BBC Gardeners’ World programme presenter, is insatiably curious about exploring ways to garden to protect and preserve our environment. Spending time gardening or enjoying others’ gardens opens our eyes to the environment around us ...
09.05.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - What to Sow in Autumn Discover why autumn is nature's natural time to sow seeds – Alan reveals how to harness this energy and get ahead on next year's flowers and veg. Discover the seeds to success in this week's Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized ...
08.31.2023 Alan Titchmarsh – What it Means to be a Good Gardener Join us for an exclusive conversation with presenter, broadcaster and author Alan Titchmarsh. Recorded at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, and Hosted by presenter and broadcaster, Nicki Chapman, the audience listened in as Alan discussed what it means to be a ...
08.29.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - How to Grow Onions A superfood that's versatile to use and a kitchen essential, onions and shallots can be tricky to grow – so follow Alan's expert tips to ensure success, how to grow them, when to harvest and his pick of varieties Learn ...
08.23.2023 Frances Tophill – Discovering my new garden Join us for an exclusive conversation with Gardeners’ World TV presenter, Frances Tophill. Recorded at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, and Hosted by presenter and broadcaster, Nicki Chapman, the audience listened in as Frances discussed what it’s been like taking on ...
08.22.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - Making Compost Alan shares his down-to-earth guide to making compost, turning garden waste into soil-enriching goodness the easy way. Discover the steps that count and don’t waste your waste, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions ...
08.17.2023 Adam Frost – A Year in my Garden Join us for an exclusive conversation with garden designer and Gardeners’ World TV presenter, Adam Frost. Recorded at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, and Hosted by presenter and broadcaster, Nicki Chapman, the audience listened in in as Adam discussed how his ...
08.15.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - Success with Wisteria Alan demystifies how to grow wisteria with his easy-to-follow guide, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
08.10.2023 Monty Don – How we Make Gardeners' World TV Join us for an exclusive conversation with the nation’s head gardener, Monty Don, recorded at BBC Gardeners’ World Live. Hosted by presenter and broadcaster, Nicki Chapman, the live audience listened in as Monty gives behind-the-scenes insight into filming Gardeners’ World ...
08.08.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - Success with Ripening Tomatoes Alan shares his love of tomatoes and why it’s not too late in late summer to boost your harvest, with just a few key steps. Discover how to ‘think like a tomato’ in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized ...
08.03.2023 How to make a garden that's fuss-free and fabulous, with James Alexander-Sinclair A garden that looks gorgeous with zero effort sounds too good to be true, and it probably is. But it’s certainly possible to create a fabulous, flower-filled garden that’s fuss-free and easy to look after. Eminent garden designer and writer ...
07.31.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - How to Grow Herbs Alan reveals his favourite plants to add flavour and fragrance to our food, with his guide to growing herbs, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
07.27.2023 How gardening makes learning fun for kids Want to get kids outside this summer? Forest school teacher Jaime Johnson explains why gardening is so beneficial and shares activities to get kids involved, as well as provide opportunities for learning. We visit her own garden to join Rowan ...
07.25.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - Growing Potatoes Alan reveals how to grow bumper harvests of potatoes, including how to know when they're ready to harvest, how to store them and the best varieties to grow, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening ...
07.20.2023 Rukmini Iyer on Homegrown Flavours We all know homegrown tastes best and who better to show us why than bestselling cookbook author Rukmini Iyer. She reveals the crops she loves to to grow in her small London garden and shares delicious recipe ideas to get ...
07.17.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - Tackling Weeds Organically Alan reveals how to avoid invasive plants the natural way, with his guide to tackling weeds organically, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
07.13.2023 Nick Bailey on making a new garden Discover how to transform a new plot into your dream garden, whatever its size and whatever your budget. As Gardeners' World presenter Nick Bailey shares his designer tips and tricks for making a new garden. Plus he reveals what he ...
07.10.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials -Growing Soft Fruit Add tasty soft fruits to the harvest with Alan’s guide to growing soft fruit, even in the smallest space. Alan will help you with choosing and growing berries and currants in all their forms. Learn to prune them properly, keep ...
07.05.2023 How to grow veg in a small space with Ingrid Chiu Small growing space? No problem. We are joined by Ingrid Chiu, who with a bit of planning, grows a wide variety of tasty crops in just a few raised beds. Alongside sharing advice on choosing and building raised beds for ...
07.03.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - How to Succeed with Roses Fill your garden with a sumptuous, scented display of roses, with Alan’s essential guide to growing roses. Get help with choosing which kind of rose to buy, where to plant them and how to prepare the perfect soil. Alan has ...
06.29.2023 Ray Mears on British woodlands Do trees make you happy? Ray Mears shares his love of British woodlands with us. He reveals how we can best enjoy them and inspire our own planting choices to capture some of that woodland magic in our own gardens. ...
06.26.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - Growing in Shade Alan reveals how to bring light and life to the darkest corners of your garden, with his guide to growing in shade, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions. Learn more about your ad ...
06.22.2023 Guide to rescuing house plants with Sarah Gerrard-Jones Struggling to keep your house plants looking healthy? Or just keen to buy heavily discounted house plants, confident that you can bring them back from the brink? Sarah Gerrard-Jones, AKA Instagram’s The Plant Rescuer joins us to explain everything you ...
06.20.2023 Tea-Break Tutorials - How to take summer cuttings Alan Titchmarsh reveals easy ways to make plants for free, with his guide to summer cuttings, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.14.2023 How to create a balcony garden with Jason Williams From the unique challenges gardening at height brings, to the wonderful rewards when your hard work pays off, Jason joins us to spill the beans on why he created his Cloud Garden and shares his honest approach to gardening that ...
06.12.2023 Alan Titchmarsh Tea-Break Tutorials Trailer Alan Titchmarsh Tea-Break Tutorials Trailer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.07.2023 Sue Kent on using colour in the garden Sue Kent burst onto our TV screens in 2020, with her exuberant home videos from her Swansea garden. Her vivacious, can-do attitude has shown that having physical differences need not prevent you gardening, and has ensured she has become a ...
06.05.2023 Sowalong – Pak Choi 'Long White Petiole' with Miranda Janatka For a gourmet veg patch, grow veg you'ill really enjoy eating and serving up for guests. Discover how to grow and harvest pak choi in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine senior content creator Miranda Janatka. Get free ...
05.31.2023 How to create a beautiful summer garden with Tom Brown Most of us can get our gardens looking their best in summer, but the professionals really know how to get plants working extra hard, with colourful flowers continually blooming their socks off. West Dean’s head gardener, Tom Brown joins us ...
05.29.2023 Sowalong – Cornflower 'Black Ball' with James Jessel With their distinctive burgundy colour, Cornflower ‘Black Ball’ is the perfect addition to any pollinator friendly patch. Find out how these no-nonsense, easy-to-grow flowers helped a beginner gardener to catch the ‘gardening bug’ in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' ...
05.25.2023 Creating a Chelsea show garden with Sarah Price It’s the week of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show – arguably the most famous flower show in the world. Bringing together the very best growers, nurseries and of course, garden designers, no other horticultural event compares. For many the show ...
05.22.2023 Sowalong – Foxgloves with Adam Frost Adam explains why the beauty and simplicity of foxgloves makes them his favourite flowers. He also shares how he collects the seeds, enabling him to keep growing more year after year. Get more seed sowing advice, delivered direct to your ...
05.17.2023 How Gardens Of The Year changed my life with Liz Schofield When Lizzie Schofield entered the Gardens of the Year competition, back in 2020, she had no expectation of being shortlisted, let alone winning. Her tricky garden was on a steep, coastal plot right on the North East coast of Scotland, ...
05.16.2023 Sowalong – Kale 'Nero di Toscana' with Emma Crawforth Discover how to grow a delicious, nutritious gourmet vegetable from seed to add zest to meals all winter long with Horticultural Editor Emma Crawforth’s tips Get free kale seeds with our May issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong Learn more about ...
05.10.2023 Monty Don on Gardening with Changing Weather Our weather is changing, with extremes in heat, cold, wind and rain all becoming more common. The summer of 2022 saw extreme drought and blistering temperatures in many areas of the UK, which was followed by a very wet autumn ...
05.08.2023 Sowalong – Lettuce with Catherine Mansley UK households throw away a staggering number of lettuces every day. Find out how you can help tackle food waste, with help from this sowalong podcast by BBC Gardeners' World Magazine digital editor Catherine Mansley. Get free lettuce seeds with ...
05.03.2023 Summer Gardening Series 2023 Trailer Join the team from BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine as we share lively conversation about all things gardening. We’ll be exploring how to grow veg in small spaces, revive houseplants and create beautiful summer borders. There will also be appearances from ...
05.02.2023 Sowalong – Eschscholzia with Oliver Parsons Last year's hot, dry conditions may have been hard on a lot of plants but they were fantastic for the laid-back California poppy. Find out how to grow these wonderful, low-effort flowers in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World ...
04.26.2023 Alan's Favourites - Shed Essentials It’s easy to amass a battalion-worth of ironmongery in your shed, but some Alan Titchmarsh would never be without. In this podcast, Alan creates a fantasy toolkit. Get more advice from Alan, and all your favourite gardening experts, delivered direct ...
04.24.2023 Sowalong – Greek Oregano with James Jessel It’s funny how certain tastes or smells can transport us back to a particular moment in life. As gardeners we get this a lot. Find out how to grow Greek Oregano, with its unmistakeable aroma, in this sowalong podcast with ...
04.19.2023 Alan's Favourites - Splendid Summer Colour Alan Titchmarsh selects plants to guarantee stunning summer colour. Get more advice from Alan, and all your favourite gardening experts, delivered direct to your inbox, by signing up to our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/GWpodNewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
04.18.2023 Sowalong – Nicotiana 'Lime Green' with Adam Duxbury Discover the monochromatic and sophisticated beauty of Nicotiana ‘Lime Green’ blooms, as well as how to grow them with BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine commissioning editor Adam Duxbury. Get free nicotiana seeds with our May issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong Learn ...
04.12.2023 Alan's Favourites - Great British Gardens Alan Titchmarsh selects some of his most inspirational gardens to visit in the UK. Get discounted entry to three of his favourites, plus over 400 more UK gardens, with our 2 for 1 Gardens guide, in the May issue of ...
04.10.2023 Sowalong – Morning glory 'Heavenly Blue' with Lily Middleton For a fast growing climber that produces beautiful blooms, Morning Glory 'Heavenly Blue' is the perfect choice. Find out how to grow it from seed in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine content creator Lily Middleton. Get free ...
04.05.2023 Alan's Favourites - House Plant House Mates Every home should have them: today Alan Titchmarsh picks his top house plants and reveals how to keep them alive. Get more advice from Alan, and all your favourite gardening experts, delivered direct to your inbox, by signing up to ...
04.03.2023 Sowalong – Nasturtiums with Oliver Parsons Easy to sow, and one of the keenest yet most manageable self-seeders around, nasturtiums fill your garden with lush foliage and rich colour year after year. Find out how to grow them in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World ...

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