You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website at sarahavin.com.

Hello and welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast with me, Arthur Parkinson, and my good friend Sarah Raven.

This episode is the first of five special episodes that we're doing, which we're calling our mini-series,

which is your guide to gardening that between myself and Sarah are going to really try and take it all

back to basics so you get a lovely rounded, almost like a podcast mini course really of gardening

to help you if you're a beginner or an experienced gardener, no matter how big or small your garden

might be, it really is to try and give you a little bit of technical

and most importantly a lot of inspiration on how myself and Sarah garden so that you can get

the best from whatever your space is, wherever you are. And this is in fact the intro to the five

episodes and it's just really us trying to appreciate and include the people who have perhaps, like my kids,

I've got children who are in their late 20s and they really want to garden, but they sort of feel

they don't really know where to start. So I'm going to really try and remind myself all the time as Arthur

and I chat that this is for, you know, the sort of the person who hasn't got the lingo,

maybe hasn't got the tools, hasn't even got a book yet perhaps. So we're going to really try

and hold your hand through just trying to, for me, remember back 30, 40 years to when I really didn't know

how to plant a seed even, and we'll talk about that.

I'll also try and remind you of seasonality, because it's really easy to, if you've not

garden before, to not be aware of the timeline of gardening. I've got friends who are my age you don't know you

have to sew your fox gloves almost a year before they're due to flower. So it's going to be

things like that to try and as Sarah said hold your hand and almost have a little classroom kind of

talk as to how you can get a full and gorgeous and glamorous garden. And we're going to talk about

different areas of colour and shade, light, also where you are in the country. So gardening in the

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