Allotment Life with Terry Walton

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Terry Walton has been growing vegetables, fruit and flowers on his Rhondda Valley allotments in South Wales from a young age. With 50 years’ experience, Terry brings a wealth of allotment growing advice, practical gardening knowledge and tips learned over the years. Examining how gardening practises have changed and how climate, location and soil health effects gardening, the benefits of crop rotation and no dig practices, alongside what to grow every year for reliable crops. There are also allotment fails, lively stories and a colourful glimpse inside the world of allotment life. You can hear more from Terry and his allotment antics on his BBC Sounds Plocast podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.4	Hello and welcome to the BBC Gardner's World magazine podcast, brought to you by the team here at the magazine.
0:46.8	Join us as we chat all things gardening with the nation's favourite experts.
0:55.0	If you're looking for growing advice and gardening expertise, then look no further than
1:01.0	Keen Gardner, Allotment Grower and much-loved BBC Radio 2's resident allotmenteer, Terry
1:07.7	Walton. Terry has been growing vegetables, fruit and flowers on his Ronda Valley allotments
1:13.3	in South Wales from a young age. I'm Claire Venice, content creator at Gardner's World magazine,
1:20.1	and I'm delighted to welcome Terry, a self-named practical gardener of 50 years experience to the podcast.
1:27.1	Hello, Terry.
1:28.0	Hi, Claire.
1:28.7	Lovely to see you and you're not in your natural place at the allotments today,
1:33.9	but I imagine you're there every day.
1:36.1	Yeah, never miss the morning.
1:37.7	Lottments is a funny place.
1:39.1	We have three factions of gardeners on allotments.
1:41.8	The morning goers, which I'm one of, the afternoon goers,
1:46.1	and then those are going for tea and then the evening to people turn up from spring onwards.
1:50.5	So what age did you start gardening then, Terry? How did you get into the gardening world?
1:55.0	I was four-year-old when my father first took me in. We lived about 100 yards away in the street next to the allotments. And my mother said to him one morning when I was four-year-old, Tom, take this boy over the allotments under my feet, and he gave me a small patch of ground, and that's what I kicked off gardening. What did you grow? Do you remember? Absolutely. I never, ever forget what I ever grew. He gave me a little patch which is about a metre square.
2:20.2	He turned it over for me.
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