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Growing Up Podcast — 138 episodes

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Companion Planting - the most requested topic so far!

2

What can you sow in June? Isn't it too late?

3

Gardening Jobs for June

4

Gardening During a Heatwave? Grab a cold drink....

5

Changing career into horticulture? Let's make that jump a little bit easier.....

6

Gardening Jobs for May

7

The reality of being a woman working in horticulture

8

Gardening for Bees

9

Small space, big harvest - the joy of small scale food growing

10

Gardening Jobs for April - SUCH an exciting month in the growing space.

11

Growing a Flower Farm with a Business Plan

12

All Natural Pest Control? Is it possible?

13

How to Grow Tomatoes - Tomato Revolution is back on the show!

14

Planting Hardy Herbs During Early Spring

15

Gardening Jobs for March

16

Things that are stopping you from growing a beautiful garden.....

17

Seed Sowing Tips: Seed Sowing 101

18

How to Grow Potatoes

19

Gardening Jobs for February

20

Planning the 2026 Growing Season: we try to turn our dreams into a plan.

21

How to Garden Using Raised Beds

22

New Year Growing Resolutions 2026

23

Gardening jobs for January - time to get creative.

24

Growing Up Podcast Christmas Party

25

We eat mince pies and evaluate the 2025 Growing Season.

26

What makes a plant "bad"?

27

Gardening Jobs for December - there is loads to do!

28

How to grow Garlic and make Poinsettias last beyond Christmas

29

The Truth About Roots Allotments: The Most Controversial Allotment Company in the UK?

30

'Have faith in your superpower which is your dyslexia.' We chat to Will Petty of Jacq and Wills Landscapes

31

Gardening Jobs for November - this is a surprisingly busy month in the garden!

32

Victorian Plant Hunters

33

Talking gardening with a 'non gardener'.

34

It's time to talk about polytunnels....

35

Gardening jobs for October

36

The Harvest Festival: we review our year so far.

37

Starting a business in horticulture: the harsh realities behind the best job in the world.

38

Embracing an autumnal gardening mindset.....

39

Gardening in the night garden

40

Gardening Jobs for September

41

Garden planning and design for the future....

42

Kate's Story 2.0

43

Andy's Story 2.0

44

Gardening Jobs for August

45

Growing Up Podcast Season THREE Starts Here.

46

The Second Herb Season

47

Gardening Jobs for July

48

Heatwave gardening.....

49

The beauty of Show Gardens and why they can matter more than you think.....

50

Summer arrives in the herb garden...

51

We answer YOUR questions.

52

Gardening Jobs for June

53

Growing things can save your life.

54

Horticulture is hard and the weirdness of spring.

55

Go Sow May: Just keep sowing, just keep sowing.

56

Gardening Jobs for May

57

Trees: Part II

58

Viking Gardening

59

Gardening Jobs for April - SUCH an exciting month in the growing space.

60

The magic of blank slate gardening and a beginner mentality

61

Garden centres and the joy of buying plants.

62

Trees 101

63

Growing Herbs during early Spring

64

Gardening Jobs for March

65

The importance of growing as a community.

66

Microgreens 101

67

Tips for starting a Brand New Allotment

68

Gardening Jobs for February

69

Chilli Growing 101

70

Planning the 2025 Growing Season

71

New Year Growing Resolutions.

72

Gardening jobs for January

73

The Growing Up Podcast Christmas Party

74

Evaluating the 2024 season. We look back very honestly on the year just gone....

75

After the storm.....

76

Gardening for December - practical jobs that you can do during the month of December in a changing climate.

77

Caring for the herbs in your winter herb garden.

78

No Dig with Charles Dowding.

79

Bulb Growing 101

80

Gardening Jobs for November - this is a surprisingly busy month in the garden!

81

Is 'profit' a dirty word in horticulture?

82

Composting 101

83

The hidden beauty of mushrooms.

84

Gardening jobs for October - this is such an important month.

85

The history of arts and crafts gardens - and why they matter today

86

Why herbs? Where did you meet? Q&A - Andy answers YOUR questions.

87

The end of the season. Mental health and working in horticulture.

88

How to forage like a pro (and how you probably already have!)

89

Gardening Jobs for September - such an exciting month

90

The importance of soil health with Becky Searle @sow_much_more

91

Can you really sow seeds in August?

92

Gardening Jobs for August, heat, water and slugs!

93

Moving into a new garden - where to start?

94

The reality of starting homestead, pumpkin growing and bee keeping. We chat to @happy_smallholding

95

Gardening for wellbeing: we talk honestly about just how important this is.

96

What can you sow in July? Isn't the gardening season over?

97

The magic of biennials and the realities of starting a flower farm during a very wet spring.

98

Jobs for the Summer Herb Garden - it's all about looking forwards,

99

Behind the scenes at Gardeners World LIVE. Horticulture is changing and we LOVE it.

100

Growing Tomatoes - top tips from Tomato Revolution

101

Gardening Jobs for June

102

The reality of flower farming, floristry and the love of flowers.

103

Polytunnel Growing 101

104

Emergency Episode: Andy is going to be on TV!!

105

Teaching school kids to grow food within inner city Birmingham.

106

Gardening Jobs for May

107

Sowing seeds in May? Come to the garden centre with us...

108

Planning Mum and Dad's Garden

109

Wellbeing, mindfulness and the importance of taking time in your garden for yourself.

110

Gardening through April showers - is anyone else feeling soggy?

111

Bringing wildlife into your growing space.

112

Gardening Jobs for April - SUCH an exciting month in the growing space.

113

Leaving corporate world to grow plants, one year on does Kate have any regrets?

114

Medieval gardening - we travel back in time.

115

Get ready for the acceleration of growth

116

Herbs to plant in early Spring.

117

Roots Allotments: A new way of doing allotments

118

Gardening and Lockdown - a Spring like no other.

119

Let's go to the Farmers Market!

120

Gardening Jobs for February - what a strange gardening month.

121

Growing food and the importance of slow living.

122

Ever thought of starting a business in horticulture? We dig a little deeper....

123

Planning your 2024 Garden - what we will sow and grow in 2024

124

Can you grow food to save money? We talk to James Wong.

125

January Gardening Jobs: We dig deep into gardening jobs for January.

126

Kate is BACK for the Growing Up Podcast Christmas Episode - a year in review, and growing resolutions for 2024

127

Houseplants, wellbeing and dreams coming true. We chat to Root 13 House Plants.

128

Growing Food to Save Money? We talk about this taboo subject.

129

Tales of a Head Gardener - Meet Daniel Cartwright of Winterbourne House and Gardens

130

Gardening seasons, wellbeing and the perils of hosting a podcast with your mum.

131

The One with all the Herbs......

132

James Wong on ethnobotany and why plants REALLY matter.

133

Dig for Victory: We travel back in time.....

134

Bring on the Tomato Revolution. Tomatoes and Star Wars.

135

Autumn: Is the gardening season over?

136

Andy's Story

137

Kate's Story

138

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