Keep On Growin' On

Gardening, like all good things, takes time but what if you don't have time - what do you do then? In this episode, I consider the value of gardening in short sharp shocks. What can you get done in 10 minutes or even 5 minutes? What impact - positive or negative - might such an instinctive practical style have on the look and feel of your garden?

And time is something that you don't always have. In this episode, I talk about the raised beds that I've been building for the tomato plants using the remaining scaffolding planks. Also, my Red Duke of York potato plants aren't doing as well as I would have hoped.

Brendan McWilliams was sort of a savant hero for me as a young lad. I used to read his columns on the back page of the Irish Times with great relish. He would have found recent Irish meteorological events curious but undoubtedly there would be a precedent from history that would be able to draw on. RIP BMW.

Scaffolding planks can be used for a lot of things in your garden - from raised beds to other bits of hard landscaping. In this episode, I talk about a project I've been doing to build a garden table out of them and of course fill you in on garden progress.

In this episode, Frank gives you a tour around the garden, picking out the flowers from the grasses from the veg.

When does gifting home-grown lettuce become a fraught moral act? During a pandemic, that is. Frank wraps up the lettuce, muses on the value of mulch and pots on a few dahlia cuttings.

Setting the scene. Introducing the lead characters and main plot lines