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Get Growing with NZ Gardener

Love your garden or want to grow your own this year for the first time? Listen and learn with Get Growing with NZ Gardener. Hosts NZ Gardener editor Jo McCarroll and Get Growing ezine editor Rachel Clare offer down-to-earth, seasonal, practical advice about what to sow and grow right now, as well as answer your questions, share stories and talk to great gardeners and growers the length and breadth of New Zealand. Whether you are starting your first garden or are an experienced greenthumb, Get Growing with NZ Gardener will give you the confidence and inspiration to get out and get your hands dirty.

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    EPISODE 6 - CHRISTMAS

    It's nearly Christmas so the pair talk about getting your garden party ready (and helping it survive the holidays), there's a masterclass in composting, and Jo asks a Christmas tree grower for the best real tree and finds out hot houseplants to give as gifts plus talks to Margaret Barker who created the internationally renowned gardens at Dunedin's Larnach Castle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    EPISODE 5 - SUMMER

    There's plenty to do in the garden this week, Rachel talks to an expert about bringing in butterflies, and the latest science on beating guava moth, while Jo chats to a couple who have created a wonderful woodland garden in Christchurch. Plus there's a masterclass on mulching and advice on keeping moth orchids alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    EPISODE 4 - SUMMER

    Jo and Rachel are busy with spring garden tasks, Jo gives a masterclass on fertiliser and talks to a market gardener on Great Barrier while Rachel investigates eating your weeds and the pair investigate how to get rid of oxalis and probe the mysterious death of Rachel’s boronia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    EPISODE 3 - MID SPRING

    This week Jo and Rachel talk about crops you can sow and plant and jobs to do in the garden now, plus growing mushrooms at home, what to plant where in your vege patch, whether you can grow an avocado from a stone (spoiler alert: yes but don't bother) and catch up with an urban farmer making a living from a quarter acre block in central New Plymouth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    EPISODE 2 - MID SPRING

    Jo and Rachel talk jobs to do now in your edible garden and Jo gives a masterclass in soil plus talks to a biologist about the amazing benefits of being exposed to soil dwelling bacteria. Rachel chats to a gardener in Reefton who's growing a giant New Zealand flag out of lavender and the pair try and get to the bottom of another mysterious death.... this time of a maidenhair fern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    EPISODE 1 - LABOUR WEEKEND

    Jo and Rachel talk about what is going on in their own backyards and suggest some edible crops you can sow and grow yourself. Jo gives a masterclass in planting tomatoes, the pair discuss peeing on lemon trees and keeping cats out of your vege beds, and Rachel talks to a Central Otago gardener who has to deal with extreme temperatures, extreme drought... and temperamental donkeys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Love your garden or want to grow your own this year for the first time? Listen and learn with Get Growing with NZ Gardener. Hosts NZ Gardener editor Jo McCarroll and Get Growing ezine editor Rachel Clare offer down-to-earth, seasonal, practical advice about what to sow and grow right now, as well as answer your questions, share stories and talk to great gardeners and growers the length and breadth of New Zealand. Whether you are starting your first garden or are an experienced greenthumb, Get Growing with NZ Gardener will give you the confidence and inspiration to get out and get your hands dirty.

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Love your garden or want to grow your own this year for the first time? Listen and learn with Get Growing with NZ Gardener. Hosts NZ Gardener editor Jo McCarroll and Get Growing ezine editor Rachel Clare offer down-to-earth, seasonal, practical advice about what to sow and grow right now, as well...

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