Sowalong: Sweetcorn with Frances Tophill

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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Home & Garden, Leisure, Nature, Science

4.5 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today on Sowalong, Gardeners’ World presenter and seed sowing expert Frances Tophill guides you through growing sweetcorn from seed. She shares her tips for sowing and planting out, plus how to store seeds for winter. Frances has loved sweetcorn ever since she was a kid, enjoying using 1970’s prong forks to eat boiled corn on the cob with melted butter. First growing it as an apprentice gardener, she discusses why it’s a favourite for its sensory benefits too – a plant which rushes and whispers to her in the wind. 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	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.
1:00.0	Interviews next Thursday in the onion field.
1:04.4	Welcome to the Garden as Well magazine's Sewalong series, the podcast that inspires you to grow more from seed.
1:17.6	Today on Sewalong, we hear from Francis Top Hill, Gardner's Well presenter and seed sewing expert. My first My favourite event to grow from seed is the sweet corn because it's so magnificent, it's so majestic,
1:39.2	it gets so big in just one season and it's a really sensory plant as it catches the wind it sort of
1:47.2	rushes and whispers to you so it's just a really statuesque and beautiful but also really
1:53.3	chatty plant i have always loved sweet corn ever since I was a kid.
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