In this edition of Dig It we chat with freelance garden writer and broadcaster Steve Bradley. Steve and wife Val (also a qualified horticulturist) have worked for The Sun newspaper since 2002, writing the gardening column with the late and legendary Peter Seabrook. Peter Brown and Chris Day share Steve’s many memorable moments of a full and brilliant gardening career.

Media mentions: Books Propagation Basics (winner of the Garden Media Guild Award for Best Practical Book), The Pruner’s Bible, Winter Gardening, The Fragrant Garden and What’s Wrong With My Plant? and The Grafter’s Handbook. Consumer testing in Amateur Gardening magazine, RHS The Garden magazine and Gardeners’ World magazine. BBC Radio Kent. TV Channel 4 series: Plant Life and Garden Doctors and BBC’s Ground Force.

Plant and product mentions: Lettuce ‘Iceberg’ Tomato rootstocks (variety Submarine), grafted tomatoes, grafting clips, Managing honey fungus and Rootgrow.

Steve’s desert island essential: Alan Titchmarsh

College mentions: Askham Bryan College, Cannington College (Bridgwater and Taunton College), Pershore College, Merrist Wood College and Writtle University College.

To find out more about Steve and The Sun gardening visit this website

Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for providing the music.

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