Huw Richards: Smart veg growing tips for busy gardeners - Episode 271

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The magic of growing your own food is hard to overstate, and while some lament the labour necessary, it takes far less time and space than many imagine. This week’s ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ once again features the remarkable Huw Richards, fresh from the release of ‘How to Grow Food’ - his new book which dives into the detail of how anyone can grow a kitchen garden in real spaces, with a planting schedule that fits around busy lives. In this episode, discover: How Huw plans and plants to gro...

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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 Eater Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and Hugh Richards is joining me again.
0:47.8	He was here with me in February when we were talking about the amazing phenomenon that is his life.
0:55.0	He started growing veg when he was 11 or 12, well, as he pointed out in that podcast, actually, from his pram, really.
1:04.0	But his YouTube channel started when he was 11 or 12 years old, which is quite an amazing thing. And he now has
1:12.0	millions of followers who watch him every week, including half the people in the States,
1:18.2	as well as the UK. It's just extraordinary. And rather like me, I think he has quite high
1:25.4	energy levels, which might verge on the manic, rather like,
1:29.3	rather like me. And so he's actually written already. This is his sixth book, which has just
1:35.7	come out actually March the 12th, fun enough, exactly the same day as my new book on growing
1:40.8	cup flowers. And it's Flas. Fantastic.
1:44.5	Yeah.
1:45.2	Sorry.
1:46.1	Hello, Hugh.
1:46.8	That's so rude.
1:47.7	I'm rabbiting on.
2:02.5	I haven't even said hello to you. It's all right. We should do a combined gift set. Someone could win a copy of each. That would be nice, wouldn't he? That would be very nice. So, yes. So Hugh wrote this book, just in case any of you didn't listen to the one in February called Veg and One Bed, which was just literally one raised bed and what you could grow from it.
2:10.0	And what is fantastic is it literally gives you how long it takes from sewing to harvest,
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