BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Join us for an exclusive conversation with Gardeners’ World TV presenter, Frances Tophill. Recorded at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, and Hosted by presenter and broadcaster, Nicki Chapman, the audience listened in as Frances discussed what it’s been like taking on a new garden of her own.

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Alan shares his down-to-earth guide to making compost, turning garden waste into soil-enriching goodness the easy way. Discover the steps that count and don’t waste your waste, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions

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Join us for an exclusive conversation with garden designer and Gardeners’ World TV presenter, Adam Frost. Recorded at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, and Hosted by presenter and broadcaster, Nicki Chapman, the audience listened in in as Adam discussed how his own garden has developed over the past year.

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Alan demystifies how to grow wisteria with his easy-to-follow guide, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions

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Join us for an exclusive conversation with the nation’s head gardener, Monty Don, recorded at BBC Gardeners’ World Live. Hosted by presenter and broadcaster, Nicki Chapman, the live audience listened in as Monty gives behind-the-scenes insight into filming Gardeners’ World TV

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Alan shares his love of tomatoes and why it’s not too late in late summer to boost your harvest, with just a few key steps. Discover how to ‘think like a tomato’ in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions.

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A garden that looks gorgeous with zero effort sounds too good to be true, and it probably is. But it’s certainly possible to create a fabulous, flower-filled garden that’s fuss-free and easy to look after. Eminent garden designer and writer James Alexander-Sinclair has designed gardens across the length and breadth of the UK, and in many other countries besides. Here, he shares some of his trade secrets, for creating gardens that are low-maintenance and lovely.

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Alan reveals his favourite plants to add flavour and fragrance to our food, with his guide to growing herbs, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions.

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Want to get kids outside this summer? Forest school teacher Jaime Johnson explains why gardening is so beneficial and shares activities to get kids involved, as well as provide opportunities for learning. We visit her own garden to join Rowan (4) and Amelie (12) as they grow plants and explore wildlife.

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Alan reveals how to grow bumper harvests of potatoes, including how to know when they're ready to harvest, how to store them and the best varieties to grow, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions.

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We all know homegrown tastes best and who better to show us why than bestselling cookbook author Rukmini Iyer. She reveals the crops she loves to to grow in her small London garden and shares delicious recipe ideas to get the maximum flavour from your harvests

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Alan reveals how to avoid invasive plants the natural way, with his guide to tackling weeds organically, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions

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Discover how to transform a new plot into your dream garden, whatever its size and whatever your budget. As Gardeners' World presenter Nick Bailey shares his designer tips and tricks for making a new garden. Plus he reveals what he has planned for his own new garden

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Add tasty soft fruits to the harvest with Alan’s guide to growing soft fruit, even in the smallest space. Alan will help you with choosing and growing berries and currants in all their forms. Learn to prune them properly, keep the birds off them and look forward to picking plenty of juicy fruits for delicious desserts, berries to add to your breakfast cereal, or preserve as jam.

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Small growing space? No problem. We are joined by Ingrid Chiu, who with a bit of planning, grows a wide variety of tasty crops in just a few raised beds. Alongside sharing advice on choosing and building raised beds for a patio, she reveals seed sowing advice, compost saving tips, reveals some of her favourite crops to grow, and how to ensure that the produce keeps coming.

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Fill your garden with a sumptuous, scented display of roses, with Alan’s essential guide to growing roses. Get help with choosing which kind of rose to buy, where to plant them and how to prepare the perfect soil. Alan has plenty of useful tips on looking after this iconic flower, and he’ll make sure you know exactly what to do should any problems arise

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Do trees make you happy? Ray Mears shares his love of British woodlands with us. He reveals how we can best enjoy them and inspire our own planting choices to capture some of that woodland magic in our own gardens. Get ready for a guide on plant history, foraging, wildlife spotting and using nature to guide yourself home.

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Alan reveals how to bring light and life to the darkest corners of your garden, with his guide to growing in shade, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions.

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Struggling to keep your house plants looking healthy? Or just keen to buy heavily discounted house plants, confident that you can bring them back from the brink? Sarah Gerrard-Jones, AKA Instagram’s The Plant Rescuer joins us to explain everything you need to know to successfully care for and revive your favourite indoor plants.

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Alan Titchmarsh reveals easy ways to make plants for free, with his guide to summer cuttings, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions.

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From the unique challenges gardening at height brings, to the wonderful rewards when your hard work pays off, Jason joins us to spill the beans on why he created his Cloud Garden and shares his honest approach to gardening that has created a loyal fanbase of fellow cloud gardeners.

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Alan Titchmarsh Tea-Break Tutorials Trailer

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Sue Kent burst onto our TV screens in 2020, with her exuberant home videos from her Swansea garden. Her vivacious, can-do attitude has shown that having physical differences need not prevent you gardening, and has ensured she has become a regular fixture on Gardeners’ World. Sue shares her most reliable plants for bringing colour to her windswept Welsh garden, how she plans her garden's colour scheme, and what she's planning for her border at BBC Gardeners' World Live.

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For a gourmet veg patch, grow veg you'ill really enjoy eating and serving up for guests. Discover how to grow and harvest pak choi in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine senior content creator Miranda Janatka.

Get free pak choi seeds with our June issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong

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Most of us can get our gardens looking their best in summer, but the professionals really know how to get plants working extra hard, with colourful flowers continually blooming their socks off. West Dean’s head gardener, Tom Brown joins us to help you add some 'umph' to your outdoor space – with his deluge of tips and tricks. He spills the beans on how to get your garden looking top notch, as well as your gardening up to scratch.

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With their distinctive burgundy colour, Cornflower ‘Black Ball’ is the perfect addition to any pollinator friendly patch. Find out how these no-nonsense, easy-to-grow flowers helped a beginner gardener to catch the ‘gardening bug’ in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Editorial Assistant James Jessel.

Get free cornflower seeds with our June issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong

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It’s the week of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show – arguably the most famous flower show in the world. Bringing together the very best growers, nurseries and of course, garden designers, no other horticultural event compares. For many the show gardens are the highlight of Chelsea, with their big budgets and big ideas. But just what does go into these headline-making creations? What’s it like to design a garden for Chelsea? We chat to multi gold-medal winning Chelsea designer, Sarah Price. Sarah’s designing a show garden this year, and when we recorded final plans were beginning to slot into place with the event creeping up fast.

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Adam explains why the beauty and simplicity of foxgloves makes them his favourite flowers. He also shares how he collects the seeds, enabling him to keep growing more year after year.

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When Lizzie Schofield entered the Gardens of the Year competition, back in 2020, she had no expectation of being shortlisted, let alone winning. Her tricky garden was on a steep, coastal plot right on the North East coast of Scotland, and she saw herself as an amateur gardener. Even Lizzie's partner Malcolm told her it wasn’t worth entering, but much to Lizzie’s surprise, she won – and in addition, secured the People’s Choice award too. Since then, her gardening adventures have bloomed along with her own confidence as a gardener. In this podcast, she shares how her life, and her gardening, has changed since winning the competition.

Enter your garden in the Gardens of the Year Competition at: gardenersworld.com/garden-competition

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Discover how to grow a delicious, nutritious gourmet vegetable from seed to add zest to meals all winter long with Horticultural Editor Emma Crawforth’s tips

Get free kale seeds with our May issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong

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Our weather is changing, with extremes in heat, cold, wind and rain all becoming more common. The summer of 2022 saw extreme drought and blistering temperatures in many areas of the UK, which was followed by a very wet autumn and a winter with freezing temperatures like we’ve not seen in decades. The weather is becoming unpredictable and, if you’re a gardener, extremely challenging to cope with. We chat to the nation’s head gardener, Monty Don, about how weather extremes are changing the way we garden. Just how is the weather impacting Monty’s own garden, Longmeadow, and what is he going to need to do differently in years to come?

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UK households throw away a staggering number of lettuces every day. Find out how you can help tackle food waste, with help from this sowalong podcast by BBC Gardeners' World Magazine digital editor Catherine Mansley.

Get free lettuce seeds with our May issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong

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Join the team from BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine as we share lively conversation about all things gardening. We’ll be exploring how to grow veg in small spaces, revive houseplants and create beautiful summer borders. There will also be appearances from some of your favourite presenters, helping you make a thriving garden for you and your family to enjoy.

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Last year's hot, dry conditions may have been hard on a lot of plants but they were fantastic for the laid-back California poppy. Find out how to grow these wonderful, low-effort flowers in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine horticultural sub-editor, Oliver Parsons.

Get free oregano seeds with our May issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong

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It’s easy to amass a battalion-worth of ironmongery in your shed, but some Alan Titchmarsh would never be without. In this podcast, Alan creates a fantasy toolkit.

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It’s funny how certain tastes or smells can transport us back to a particular moment in life. As gardeners we get this a lot. Find out how to grow Greek Oregano, with its unmistakeable aroma, in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Editorial Assistant James Jessel.

Get free oregano seeds with our May issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong

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Alan Titchmarsh selects plants to guarantee stunning summer colour. Get more advice from Alan, and all your favourite gardening experts, delivered direct to your inbox, by signing up to our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/GWpodNewsletter

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Discover the monochromatic and sophisticated beauty of Nicotiana ‘Lime Green’ blooms, as well as how to grow them with BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine commissioning editor Adam Duxbury.

Get free nicotiana seeds with our May issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong

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Alan Titchmarsh selects some of his most inspirational gardens to visit in the UK. Get discounted entry to three of his favourites, plus over 400 more UK gardens, with our 2 for 1 Gardens guide, in the May issue of BBC Gardeners' World Magazine: http://bit.ly/3kgSeoN

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For a fast growing climber that produces beautiful blooms, Morning Glory 'Heavenly Blue' is the perfect choice. Find out how to grow it from seed in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine content creator Lily Middleton. Get free morning glory seeds with our May issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong

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Every home should have them: today Alan Titchmarsh picks his top house plants and reveals how to keep them alive. Get more advice from Alan, and all your favourite gardening experts, delivered direct to your inbox, by signing up to our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/GWpodNewsletter

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Easy to sow, and one of the keenest yet most manageable self-seeders around, nasturtiums fill your garden with lush foliage and rich colour year after year. Find out how to grow them in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine horticultural sub-editor, Oliver Parsons. Get more seed sowing advice, delivered direct to your inbox, by signing up to our free newsletter:

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Alan Titchmarsh’s wish list today is for plants and garden features that wildlife will love as much as you. Get more advice from Alan, and all your favourite gardening experts, delivered direct to your inbox, by signing up to our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/GWpodNewsletter

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Opium poppies bear gorgeous, tissue-paper petals followed by pepper-pot seedheads and they’re a magnet for pollinating bees. Get free Poppy 'Black Swan' seeds with our May issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong

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Alan Titchmarsh shares his choices for vegetables to grow in your garden, allotment or in containers – plus Titchmarsh tips for a bountiful yield.

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It's hard to resist a border full of cosmos in the summer, plus they make a great cut flower. Find out how to grow these stars in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine content creator Lily Middleton.

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Alan Titchmarsh talks shady spots and some of his favourite choices for plants that will thrive in them

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Sunflowers brighten up gardens and are really easy to grow. Find out why they are Joe's favourite blooms and how he grows them from seed. Also discover why for Joe, bigger is better.

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Alan Titchmarsh selects some of his favourite spring bulbs, flowering shrubs and trees that bring him joy at the beginning of the gardening year.

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Discover how French marigolds not only brighten up your garden, but can also help protect other plants in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine senior content creator Miranda Janatka. Get free marigold seeds with our April issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong

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