Growing Together

Claire visits the BBC Gardeners' World Live show, at the NEC in Birmingham, to meet with and talk to garden experts and designers.

This hour-long episode features vegetable growing inspiration, urban and balcony gardening, beautiful borders, no dig advice, organic gardening, ideas to help wildlife, encouraging young people in horticulture and a love affair with peonies! 

Steve will be joining Claire at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival for the next Growing Together.

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On a hot summer's evening, Claire and Steve record this episode of Growing Together in a private garden in Hampshire.

There's innovative watering ideas as we learn to cope with hot weather and climate change - including a solar panelled well - a love of visiting open gardens, wildflowers, too many courgette plants and a confession from Steve!

With special guests National Garden Scheme garden owner Karen Llewellyn and garden designer Emma Atkinson.

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While Steve tends to his award-winning dahlias, Claire visits this year's Chelsea Flower Show.

Saving oak trees, forestry education, gardening with no limits, encouraging young gardeners, celebrating heroines of horticulture, admiring Alitex's trade stand, head gardener advice and cinnamon buns are top of the agenda for this eclectic edition of Growing Together.

With thanks to Geraint Richards, Head Forester at the Duchy of Cornwall, author Robert Penn, Drag Queen Gardener, Skinny Jean Gardener, Pollyanna Wilkinson, Nelly Hall, Julia Parker and Ben Pope.

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With the blossom still in bloom and growing times about 2 weeks behind where they usually are, Claire and Steve squelch and squash their way to the Adhurst Estate Allotments.

They're joined by Alitex's Nelly Hall with her second Chelsea Flower Show 'Growing Diary' and tree expert Phil Paulo talks about healthy hedgerows as part of National Hedgerow Week.

There's also advice for growing dahlias and beans, feeding your plants and what to do if you see a swarm of bees.

Join Claire Vennis and Steve Amos in Growing Together, twice a month.  Sponsored by Alitex Glasshouses.

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In this special episode, Claire goes solo to the BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair in Beaulieu while Steve tends to his greenhouse!

Kevin Smith, editor of Gardeners' World Magazine, promotes Plot to Plate, gardener and presenter Francis Tophill has plans for an edible prairie meadow and Sparsholt College champions emerging garden designers as their show garden supports the cancer charity Maggie's.

Join Claire Vennis and Steve Amos in Growing Together, the gardening podcast - new twice a month - from Shine Radio.

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Gardening for wellbeing and mindfulness is top of the agenda in this episode of Growing Together with Claire and Steve.  It's so important to get your dose of Vitamin G!

Joining them is Beth Benning from the charity MIND with a new Petersfield Gardening Club and Nelly Hall with the first instalment of her 'Growing Diary' for Alitex's trade stand at the Chelsea Flower Show.

There's also advice for planting courgettes, protecting against late Spring frost and the reveal of what was enjoying nocturnal digging in Claire's potato patch!

 

Growing Together is sponsored by Alitex Glasshouses, modern Victorian glasshouses, based in South Harting. Listen to a new episode at the beginning and middle of each month.

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Claire and Steve meet for a second time this month at the Adhurst Estate Allotment for gardening chat and advice - and they're delighted to welcome Alitex Glasshouses as a supporter of the podcast! 

Also joining them in this episode is Bea Attley from the Petersfield Pumpkin Growers Association and Neil and Catherine Wallsgrove from Pepperpot Herbs.

There's advice for potato planting and dahlia cutting as well as a pumpkin-growing challenge and herb inspiration.

Join Claire and Steve, twice a month, to grow together.

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Growing Together is growing and you can now listen to a new episode twice a month, full of gardening advice and chat, as well as interviews with experts.

Claire and Steve are once again at the Adhurst Estate Allotments, thrilled with the success of Petersfield's first Seed Swap and enjoying the warmth of the Spring sun (when it comes out!). 

There's lots to sow and plan for this month with Steve launching his Project Carrot and Parsnip 2023 and Claire trying new seeds for her new cutting flower garden.

You can also win tickets to the BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair and get involved in Petersfield in Bloom too.

With expert interviews from Mark Porter at the National Garden Scheme and medicinal herbalist Jo Dunbar.

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Petersfield In Bloom, the flower growing and display competition, has launched for 2023!

Organised by the Petersfield Town Council, the competition is supported for the first time by the gardening podcast Growing Together.

With 13 categories, including 2 new ones this year: 'Grow Your Own' and 'Special 2023 Coronation Theme', Kathryn Ellis-Blandford from the town council spoke to Growing Together presenter Claire Vennis about the competition in more detail.

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It's Compost Week UK, March 13th-19th.  Petersfield's Community Garden chair Sue Edberg explains the various ways compost is made at the garden and volunteer Sue Dillon encourages more families to come to the garden on Saturday mornings.  

There's also good news for the garden's fundraising efforts for their planned Eco Structure too.

Claire Vennis presents the gardening podcast Growing Together for Shine Radio. 

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