Daily: Leaves mean leaves! LOCKDOWN GARDENING with James Wong

The Bunker

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4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Put that sourdough starter away… Lockdown is the perfect opportunity to enrich the soul by discovering the mystery and magic of gardening. Superstar ethnobotanist JAMES WONG tells Alex Andreou how to start growing at home, and the hacks that can make it work for you. Why is being around stuff that’s growing so good for our mental wellbeing? What’s the gateway drug to horticulture? And which of the 400,000 plants on Planet Earth should you be planting right now? “We don’t know how or why gardening is so good for us. All we know is, it works.” “We’ve got time on our hands now that we may never have again.” “Supergluing plants? Are you kidding me?” Presented by Justin Quirk. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.6	I am Alex Andreu and I'm talking to you from my eighth week of lockdown in Mekonus Greece where I'm finding it difficult to sleep
1:26.3	since my body began to permanently assume the shape of my desk chair.
1:31.4	I am delighted to welcome today a botanist, an ethnobotanist I should say, a broadcaster and author of the wonderful
1:40.5	how to eat better and the best selling grow your own drugs about which I shall
1:46.0	be talking to him after the podcast he is the greenest thumb in all the land is James Wong. Welcome James.
1:54.3	Thanks Alex, thanks for having me.
1:56.8	So where are you hold up?
2:00.4	So I didn't know you were in Mickenas.
2:02.4	It's a lot more exotic than my bays water.
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