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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven and normally Arthur Parkinson,

but he's on holiday this week and I am joined by David Rowley from Hecfield Place.

And I just want to explain quickly how I met him.

So David is the head market gardener at Heckfield, which is a really wonderful, very luxurious,

but also very, very beautiful and with an incredible aesthetic hotel.

And it's quite an amazing stoke.

So it's sort of going towards the west.

And I went there for a mega treat with my two daughters.

And because I love growing vegetables and flowers,

I asked if I could meet David, who is the head grower.

And I had the most wonderful morning with him walking around the whole growing area. I just was so inspired in the

polytunnels and in the fields seeing what they were growing that I thought it would be fun to have

David talking about things for autumn sewing that are really great for winter use, but particularly

for spring and summer that coming into flower or

cropping sooner. So we're going to cover flowers and vegetables.

Welcome, David. It's lovely to have you on the podcast. It's lovely to be here with you, Sarah.

Such a pleasure.

Brilliant. So will you tell us a little bit about your path to Heckfield, you know, how you got into gardening?

I mean, you're not from the UK. Can you just describe a little bit about your background?

I can indeed. And actually, my accent is deceiving because I'm originally British born down in Southampton

and then went through normal schooling and then went on to study horticulture at Hadla

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