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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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Apr 17, 2025 • 49min

Buy the best plants and bag a bargain, with Matthew Wilson

Do you know the secrets to getting a good deal at the garden centre? When you’re presented with rows of plants for sale, can you pick out the healthy plants that are bursting with life, and avoid the plants that are not going to last. Designer and Gardeners' Question Time-regular Matthew Wilson previously ran London’s oldest nursery, and he going to help us choose the best plants on our next trip to the garden centre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Apr 14, 2025 • 47min

Garden design ideas, with Pollyanna Wilkinson

Do you know the secrets to getting a good deal at the garden centre? When you’re presented with rows of plants for sale, can you pick out the healthy plants that are bursting with life, and avoid the plants that are not going to last. Designer and Gardeners' Question Time-regular Matthew Wilson previously ran London’s oldest nursery, and he going to help us choose the best plants on our next trip to the garden centre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Apr 11, 2025 • 8min

Sowalong - Squash with Oliver Parsons

From a single squash seed comes an enormous plant, bearing outrageously beautiful, sometimes rather exotic, and really quite tasty fruits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Apr 9, 2025 • 46min

Grow More Veg in a Small Space, with Adam Frost

 Do you want to grow your own veg but have limited space? Perhaps you've got room for a window box or a few containers and don't know where to start. Maybe you're dreaming of fresh, homegrown fruit but don't quite know how to fit it into your plot. Gardeners' World presenter Adam Frost reveals how you can grow your own harvests, no matter how small your growing space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Apr 7, 2025 • 44min

Avoid Gardening Injuries, with Sue Kent

 Many of us are itching to get out in the garden when spring finally arrives and the weather allows. It feels fantastic to be out in the garden once again, but with much to do and prepare for the coming gardening season, how can we make sure our gardening enthusiasm doesn't get the better of us and we end up with aches and pains or even incur an injury? Gardeners' World presenter and remedial massage therapist Sue Kent offers gardener care advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Apr 4, 2025 • 12min

Sowalong - Onions with Matt Biggs

Onion soup, onion gravy, in our cheese and onion sandwiches, onion bread. You just can't get away from onions. They're a staple in a whole range of dishes and a must grow crop for the garden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Apr 2, 2025 • 42min

Your Best Spring Garden, with Frances Tophill

Frances Tophill, a knowledgeable plantsperson, author, and presenter, dives into the vibrant world of spring gardening. She discusses the exhilaration of transitioning from winter's quiet to spring's renewal. Topics include the importance of planning for a fruitful season, balancing structure with whimsy, and embracing aesthetics alongside productivity. Frances shares her personal gardening challenges, offers tips on growing root vegetables, and highlights the joy of creating a tranquil gardening space amidst life's busyness.
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Mar 31, 2025 • 41min

Monty Don Reveals his Garden Plans for the Year

Spring has well and truly sprung and our gardens are bursting into life. It's a time of excitement and anticipation for the growing year ahead. Monty Don reveals his gardening plans for the year at Longmeadow, what he loves about spring, and shares details about his upcoming Chelsea Flower Show garden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Mar 31, 2025 • 1min

Spring Trailer

Start your gardening year with growing inspiration in the Spring Conversations podcast from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine. Discover garden design ideas, the best plants to buy, how to bring colour to the garden, veg growing advice, gardening in urban spaces and ways to engage in the natural world, and more. Tune in every Tuesday and Thursday for all your gardening needs this Spring.Also join us every Saturday as our Sowalong series continues. Sowalong with the magazine team as they sow the seeds supplied in the magazine, along with additional seasonal seeds to try too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Mar 29, 2025 • 11min

Sowalong - Sweet Peas with Kevin Smith

Surprise someone with a fragrant bunch of sweetpeas or grow them for yourself. The flowers are just magic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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