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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Tea-Break Tutorials - What to Sow in Autumn

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Discover why autumn is nature's natural time to sow seeds – Alan reveals how to harness this energy and get ahead on next year's flowers and veg. Discover the seeds to success in this week's Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:26.9

What to sew in autumn? An easy listening guide with me, Alan Titchmarsh.

0:45.3

Hello and welcome to the brand new Gardner's World magazine podcast series,

0:51.0

exploring some of the key issues that incense and inspire gardeners.

0:55.0

These are handy expert guides to some of the topics and techniques. The team at Gardner's World are asked about time and time again.

0:59.0

Cuttings, tomatoes, pests, pests, pests,

1:03.0

blooming blight, compostic to name but a few.

1:07.0

In this exclusive series, I'm going to talk about some of these big questions and share with you my practical, no-nonsense solution.

1:16.2

I'll lead you, not down the garden path, but to a more successful, hopefully less stressful approach to tackling common garden woes and getting the garden of your dreams.

1:28.3

I want to help you to have more time enjoying the fruits and flowers of your labours,

1:35.3

and less time actually labouring. Ask a gardener what's the right time to sow seeds and the chances are the answer you'll get will be spring. I mean, it stands to reason,

2:02.3

doesn't it? Spring is the start of the growing season. But if you think about it, autumn is when

2:09.4

nature sows are seeds after a full growing season when they're newly ripe and they're most viable.

2:15.9

And there are some seeds that won't germinate if they're

2:20.3

at other times of year, staying dormant until winter's fluctuating temperatures trigger them into life.

2:28.0

But there's another reason for autumn sewing, and that's to get veg and flowers to produce bigger and earlier plants the

2:36.4

following year, often as much as six weeks earlier. So in today's Gardner's World Magazine

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