In this episode of Dig It Peter Brown and Chris Day chat with Huw Richards. Huw’s mission is simple - to help as many people as possible to grow their own food. He documents his productive garden through his hugely popular YouTube Channel. He’s just published a new book with Sam Cooper, The Self-Sufficiency Garden book, which focuses on the growing and cooking side of grow your own.

Plants mentioned: Apples, Asparagus, Basil, Basil Mint, Beetroot, Beans, Blackcurrants, Carrots, Comfrey and Nettle Tea, Courgettes, Garlic, Gooseberries, Garden peas, Leeks, Nasturtiums, Onions, Pea shoots, Padron Peppers, Potatoes, Runner beans, Spring Cabbage, Sweetcorn, Squash, Tomatoes and Turnips.

Products mentioned: BBQs, Chickens (for eggs and manure), Firepit, Raised beds, James Wong’s Grow Your Own Drugs: Easy Recipes for Natural Remedies and Beauty Treats book and Water Butts. Making Jadam Liquid Fertiliser video.

Desert Island essentials: A Swiss army pocket knife and maybe practise the new art of ‘sand gardening’!

Horticultural heroes: Huw’s Dad has been a major influence, who was in turn influenced by the hit BBC TV comedy The Good Life, No-Dig guru Charles Dowding, John Seymour, Percy Thrower, and James Wong.

Follow Huw on Instagram @huwsgarden

Follow Sam Cooper on Instagram @chef.sam.black

Huw Richards YouTube Channel

Huw has written four books with DK: Veg in One Bed (2019), Grow Food For Free (2020), The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook (2022) and The Self-Sufficiency Garden, written with good friend and colleague Sam Copper (2024).

Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music.

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