Sowalong - Cornflower with Frances Tophill
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
Immediate Media
4.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kevin Smith from BBC Gardner's World magazine. There's a brand new event this September, |
| 0:05.6 | In Conversation at Q Gardens. Join me, Adam Frost and Francis Toppill for expert tips and great chat. |
| 0:13.3 | Find out more at inconversationlive.co.uk. |
| 0:18.3 | My name's Meren, grower for Ginsters, and I'm looking for an onion masseuse to help me grow the best veg for those delicious pasties. |
| 0:26.2 | You must have, about ten years' experience, firm hands, but soft fingers, because we all know a relaxed onion is a tasty onion. |
| 0:35.4 | Ginsters taste the effort. |
| 0:38.3 | Interviews next Thursday in the onion field. |
| 0:40.4 | My name's Meren, |
| 0:41.7 | grower for Ginsters, |
| 0:43.0 | and I'm looking for an onion masseuse |
| 0:44.7 | to help me grow the best veg for those delicious pasties. |
| 0:47.9 | You must have, |
| 0:48.9 | about 10 years' experience, |
| 0:50.9 | firm hands, but soft fingers, |
| 0:53.5 | because we all know, a relaxed onion is a tasty onion. |
| 0:57.1 | Ginsters taste the effort. Interviews next Thursday in the onion field. |
| 1:04.7 | Welcome to the Gardner's World magazine's Sewalong series, the podcast that inspires you to grow more from seed. Today on Sewalong, |
| 1:12.6 | we hear from Francis Top Hill, Gardner's Well presenter and Seed Sowing Expert. |
| 1:38.4 | My My favourite flower to grow from seed is a cornflower because it's so cheery and beautiful. |
| 1:42.1 | The seed heads are beautiful when the flowers have gone over. |
| 1:44.5 | You get them in a lovely, lovely range of colours. They they're just and they can pretty much grow anywhere I first discovered cornflowers |
| 1:53.9 | because I was living by the sea which sounds really idyllic but it was really really really hard |
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