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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Tales from Titchmarsh: Being thrifty

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Home & Garden, Leisure, Nature, Science

4.5650 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Are there ways to be thrifty when gardening? Alan Titchmarsh shares his top tips for making the pounds go further Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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. Hello and welcome to Tales from Titchmarsh,

1:27.3

a wry look at life over the garden fence with me, from Titchmarsh, A Rye Look at Life Over the Garden Fence, with me, Alan Titchmarsh.

1:32.3

This time, how to be a thrifty gardener.

1:36.3

In the days when Jeff Hamilton used to present gardener's world, I'd tease him mercilessly about his various economies. These range from glazing a cold frame

1:47.7

with the thin polythene that covered a suit being returned from the dry cleaners, in itself a

1:53.9

mystery, for I'm not sure that Jeff even possessed a suit, to making polytunnels out of the same

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