The rewards of growing your own delicious fruit and veg varieties with Joe Clark - Episode 215

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Sarah Raven

Food, Grow, Home & Garden, Arranging, Arts, Cooking, Kitchen, Arrangements, Lifestyle, Vegetables, Eat, Eating, Flower Arranging, Sarah Raven, Planting, Garden, Produce, Gardener, Flowers, Growing, Cook, Leisure, Veg Garden, Home, Gardening

4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Like many gardeners, Joe Clark was captivated by the magic of growing his own food at a young age, and now inspires millions more to be enthralled by the same fascinating process via his popular social media channels. Joe is an advocate for planting fruit, veg and flowers that you may not ordinarily encounter in the supermarket, and on this episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ he shares his favourite varieties for every taste, space, and type of garden. In this episode, discover: Joe’s favou...

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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
0:29.1	today to discover even more.
0:49.8	Welcome to Grokook Eater Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and various different gardening guests who I hope you will find as fascinating as me.
0:55.6	And I know you will today, because I'm joined by a young man, I can say that, in my 60s, called Joe Clark. And Joe has the most amazing social media profile and Instagram called Joe's
1:03.8	Garden. And that's actually how I met him first, because he came to Perch Hill on one of our
1:09.5	influencer days. And I sat next to him at lunch,
1:12.5	and I was completely blown away, not only by his Instagram, which is so incredibly
1:18.8	educating. You know, I just find I watch it many times a week, and it's like, oh, I didn't
1:25.7	know that. Anyway, welcomee it's it's really
1:28.6	lovely to have you on the podcast no thank you for having me sarah can i just say that when i came to
1:33.5	perch hill i believe it was early october last year it was one of the best days i had it was one of the very
1:39.2	few probably one of ten days of sunshine we had last year it was really really hot. It was just lovely to meet you. It was
1:45.2	really hot in that lovely sort of greenhouse setting and we had the most amazing meal and a
1:50.2	lovely chat and it was amazing to meet you and thank you for having me back to have a chat on the
1:54.9	podcast. Oh no not at all. Well there's so many things we can talk about. So Joe primarily grows vegetables, but we'll
2:02.6	come on to that. But Joe, will you tell us a little bit about your history, how you, how old
2:07.7	you are now, but how long you've been gardening and why you've got into the gardening that you have?
2:11.9	Yeah, so I think my introduction into gardening isn't too dissimilar from quite a few people. So I was incredibly
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