New ways to garden - with Frances Tophill

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Would you like to make simple changes in the garden and be one step closer to becoming a sustainable gardener? Do you consider your garden as an essential part of the ecosystem, as well as a place of beauty, productivity and respite? This time on the podcast, gardener, author, environmentalist, and Gardeners’ World presenter Frances Tophill, shares her vision of modern gardening. Whether it’s living seasonally, using the garden as a resource for home makes, or landscaping with wildlife in mind, in her new book, The Modern Gardener, Frances urges us all to start seeing our gardens as valuable patches of wilderness. It's something Frances carries through to her show garden as this year’s Gardeners’ World Live, too. With sustainability at the core, Frances brings her passion for upcycle gardening, with a post-industrial show garden for a modern world. Think naturalistic planting and rewilded areas to support wildlife. Here, Frances chats to BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine’s Content Coordinator, Lucy Felton, about delicious hedgerow recipes, edible houseplants, agroforestry, vegan gardening and why it’s important to question the provenance of the things we bring into the garden. Listen on, for advice on growing herbs and weeds for medicinal purposes, ways to save space when growing veg and why no-dig gardening is not only beneficial to the structure of your soil, but important for the wildlife that lives within it, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you ready for your autumn gardening jobs?
0:02.7	If you want to keep your lawn and paths pristine right through to winter, steel's range
0:07.0	of powerful lightweight leaf blowers will make it quick and easy.
0:10.4	And if you're cutting back overgrown branches or chopping firewood ahead of the new season,
0:14.3	a steel battery chainsaw will help make it all effortless.
0:17.6	All models are perfectly balanced and quiet too, making topping up the log store
0:21.2	easier than ever. Find the right tool for all your autumn gardening tasks at steel.co.uk or your
0:27.5	local steel approved dealer. My name's Meren, grower for Ginsters, and I'm looking for an onion
0:34.1	masseuse to help me grow the best vegge for those delicious pasties.
0:42.9	You must have, about 10 years' experience, firm hands, but soft fingers.
0:46.4	Because we all know, a relaxed onion is a tasty onion.
0:49.0	Ginsters taste the effort.
0:51.5	Interviews next Thursday in the onion field.
0:54.3	It's so funny because when you look at the guys,
0:51.8	that's never a topic of conversation. Yeah. What you look like. It's all, did you watch the football last night? It's never about, I'll watch your skincare routine. Whereas women walk into a room and because we've been taught to be pitted against each other. Yeah. Not always, but sometimes there's, oh my God, you know, I can't. A bit of a barrier.
0:52.5	Yeah, yeah, and it shouldn't be there.
0:54.3	We should be trying. pitted against each other. Yeah. Not always, but sometimes there's, oh my God, you know, I can't.
1:11.5	It's a bit of a barrier.
1:12.2	Yeah, yeah.
1:12.9	And it shouldn't be there.
1:14.0	We should be trying to change that stereotype,
1:16.8	believing that there is space for everybody.
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