How to enjoy your greenhouse every day of the year with Tom Brown - Episode 236

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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A greenhouse is not just for summer - it’s for the whole year round, and it’s far more versatile than many give it credit for. Tom Brown returns to ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, fresh from the release of The Greenhouse Book, the writing of which has given him a new perspective on just how much delight it can bring in all seasons. Join Tom and Sarah as they share tips for siting your greenhouse, what to put in the greenhouse heading into autumn, and how to manage the pest population to keep your...

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly
0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraban.com
0:29.1	today to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I'm joined by Tom Brown.
0:47.8	Hello, Tom.
0:48.8	Good morning.
0:49.5	Is this the third time you've been on the podcast?
0:52.0	It's certainly the second, but I think it might even be the third.
0:55.1	Yeah, second or third. I remember talking to you about gladiolies. But I can't remember, yes,
0:59.5	I can't remember anything else. Maybe the second then. Yes. And Tom is the head gardener at West Dean,
1:05.5	which is the most fantastic learning centre in not East Sussex, but West Sussex, about an hour and a quarter from me
1:13.3	here. And I first met Tom just to give a little bit of background at Parram, also over in
1:18.9	West Sussex. And both Parram and West Dean have lots of threads in common, partly led by Tom,
1:26.4	which is that they're great. Tom has led of fantastic
1:30.5	trials and tests, which is actually how I met Tom. We went and first did a gladioli piece.
1:37.5	I interviewed Tom for the telegraph, and then we did sweet peas, we did staking, we did alliums, we did loads, didn't we?
1:46.9	We did.
1:47.3	Do you remember the first one I think we did was sunflowers?
1:49.7	I think that might have even been 2015.
1:52.1	Yeah, yeah, that's right.
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