Standout Seedlings to Sow and Grow This Year with Arthur Parkinson - Episode 163

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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One of gardening’s great joys is sowing from seed, planting out and seeing those seeds thrive, and this year brings a lovely variety of new favourites to sow. Arthur joins Sarah this week as we look at which new stunners and old favourites you’ll want to sow this year, and when to plant out each variety for them to deliver maximum glamour. In this episode, discover: A delicious selection of edibles, from a prolific climbing French Bean to the flavoursome Runner Bean Black Knight Th...

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly
0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraban.com today
0:29.4	to discover even more. Welcome to GrowCook Eat Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and my friend and colleague Arthur Parkinson.
0:47.1	We've already done a sort of summary of what we think are top picks of the spring and summer range.
0:54.0	But it was Arthur's suggestion, actually,
0:56.8	to do new things to sew to plant out later in the year.
1:01.9	And I thought it was a really lovely idea
1:03.6	because I really genuinely love sewing seeds.
1:08.6	I love the whole process of going out there there having the radio, the smell of the wet
1:14.1	compost or the damp compost, pelagoniums and the polytun or all that kind of stuff. It's so
1:20.2	nostalgic and it's so sort of soothing and creative. It's just, it's my happy place to be. So that's
1:26.7	why I was very happy that Arthur thought it was a good idea to just chat about a few new things or, you know, maybe some oldies, but a few new things that we're going to be sewing and growing in 2024.
1:37.6	Yeah, I couldn't agree more with that statement. There is something very, very therapeutic, isn't there, about the whole seed tray experience.
1:45.7	You can go to the garden centre as much as you want if you're lucky enough to be able to shop as you drop.
1:49.5	But to grow something yourself from seed is such a lovely thing and it's easy to forget the times to sow things through the years.
1:56.1	That's why I thought it might be nice to do this.
1:58.3	I mean, the first thing I've sown this year, as we're talking,
2:01.6	it's not even emerged yet. But on the windowsill, I've got two terracotta pots, and each terracotipot
2:06.2	pot has got four seeds of the Cabeyer Scandens cup and saucer vine, mainly because our gardens
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