Caring for Soil in Winter with Becky Searle

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

What can we do to ensure next year’s growing season is the best yet? With the frenzy of the growing season now behind us, lost to the memory of warm, summer days and bountiful harvests, and while our vegetable patches and flower beds lay bare, ecologist and botanist Becky Searle shares advice and tips for how to care for our soil over the winter months. Do you have a gardening question you'd like Alan Titchmarsh's help with? Submit your question in the comments below or go to www.gardenersworld.com/podcast/questions/ Alan will answer a selection in the Ask Alan podcast series from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine in February and March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, what are you watching at the moment?
0:01.8	Squid Game, Dad.
0:03.0	Let's watch it together this weekend.
0:04.9	Would that be nice?
0:06.0	What's it on again?
0:06.8	Netflix. You've got EETV, so you just switch it on. What season are we up to? Um, four? That's Stranger Things, Mum. And what about the kids? Don't worry, they'll watch Coca-Mellon for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV, plus change up sports and entertainment.
0:04.5	It's TV with the ultimate flex for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV. Plus change up sports and entertainment.
0:22.4	It's TV with the ultimate flex for the whole family.
0:25.4	EETV requires EEB Broadband, separate 24-month contracts for TV and broadband content of airy-term supply.
0:31.8	Hello and welcome to the BBC Gardener's World magazine podcast,ought to you by the team here at the magazine.
0:39.1	Join us as we chat all things gardening
0:41.4	with the nation's favourite experts.
0:46.7	With the frenzy of the growing season now behind us,
0:50.3	lost to the memory of warm summer days and bountiful harvests,
0:53.3	and while our vegetable patches and flower beds lay bare,
0:57.0	what can we do to ensure that next year's growing season is the best yet?
1:01.6	I'm Claire Vanis content creator at BBC Gardner's World magazine.
1:05.7	And joining me is ecologist and botanist Becky Searle,
1:09.1	with advice and tips for how to care for our soil over the
1:12.8	winter months. Hello Becky. Hi, Claire. So why is it important that we look after our soil?
1:19.5	There are so many reasons why soil is important. For a start, soil is entirely capable of looking
1:25.8	after itself and in turn looking after our plants without
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