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Growing Up Podcast — 146 episodes

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Why do some gardens look better than others?

2

What you can sow in August for an Autumn Harvest

3

Gardening Jobs for August

4

10 Late Summer Gardening Mistakes to Avoid

5

Can you seriously plant herbs now during July?

6

Lavender: a journey through culture, history and growing your own

7

Gardening Jobs for July

8

We overstretched ourselves. Heatwaves, kebabs and Monty Don.

9

Companion Planting - the most requested topic so far!

10

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

11

Gardening Jobs for June

12

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

13

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

14

Gardening Jobs for May

15

The reality of being a woman working in horticulture

16

Gardening for Bees

17

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

18

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

19

Growing a Flower Farm with a Business Plan

20

All Natural Pest Control? Is it possible?

21

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

22

Planting Hardy Herbs During Early Spring

23

Gardening Jobs for March

24

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

25

Seed Sowing Tips: Seed Sowing 101

26

How to Grow Potatoes

27

Gardening Jobs for February

28

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

29

How to Garden Using Raised Beds

30

New Year Growing Resolutions 2026

31

Gardening jobs for January - time to get creative.

32

Growing Up Podcast Christmas Party

33

We eat mince pies and evaluate the 2025 Growing Season.

34

What makes a plant "bad"?

35

Gardening Jobs for December - there is loads to do!

36

How to grow Garlic and make Poinsettias last beyond Christmas

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

Victorian Plant Hunters

41

Talking gardening with a 'non gardener'.

42

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

43

Gardening jobs for October

44

The Harvest Festival: we review our year so far.

45

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

46

Embracing an autumnal gardening mindset.....

47

Gardening in the night garden

48

Gardening Jobs for September

49

Garden planning and design for the future....

50

Kate's Story 2.0

51

Andy's Story 2.0

52

Gardening Jobs for August

53

Growing Up Podcast Season THREE Starts Here.

54

The Second Herb Season

55

Gardening Jobs for July

56

Heatwave gardening.....

57

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

58

Summer arrives in the herb garden...

59

We answer YOUR questions.

60

Gardening Jobs for June

61

Growing things can save your life.

62

Horticulture is hard and the weirdness of spring.

63

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

64

Gardening Jobs for May

65

Trees: Part II

66

Viking Gardening

67

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

68

The magic of blank slate gardening and a beginner mentality

69

Garden centres and the joy of buying plants.

70

Trees 101

71

Growing Herbs during early Spring

72

Gardening Jobs for March

73

The importance of growing as a community.

74

Microgreens 101

75

Tips for starting a Brand New Allotment

76

Gardening Jobs for February

77

Chilli Growing 101

78

Planning the 2025 Growing Season

79

New Year Growing Resolutions.

80

Gardening jobs for January

81

The Growing Up Podcast Christmas Party

82

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

83

After the storm.....

84

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

85

Caring for the herbs in your winter herb garden.

86

No Dig with Charles Dowding.

87

Bulb Growing 101

88

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

89

Is 'profit' a dirty word in horticulture?

90

Composting 101

91

The hidden beauty of mushrooms.

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

Gardening Jobs for September - such an exciting month

98

The importance of soil health with Becky Searle @sow_much_more

99

Can you really sow seeds in August?

100

Gardening Jobs for August, heat, water and slugs!

101

Moving into a new garden - where to start?

102

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

103

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

104

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

105

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

106

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

107

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

108

Growing Tomatoes - top tips from Tomato Revolution

109

Gardening Jobs for June

110

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

111

Polytunnel Growing 101

112

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

113

Teaching school kids to grow food within inner city Birmingham.

114

Gardening Jobs for May

115

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

116

Planning Mum and Dad's Garden

117

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

118

Gardening through April showers - is anyone else feeling soggy?

119

Bringing wildlife into your growing space.

120

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

121

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

122

Medieval gardening - we travel back in time.

123

Get ready for the acceleration of growth

124

Herbs to plant in early Spring.

125

Roots Allotments: A new way of doing allotments

126

Gardening and Lockdown - a Spring like no other.

127

Let's go to the Farmers Market!

128

Gardening Jobs for February - what a strange gardening month.

129

Growing food and the importance of slow living.

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

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

134

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

135

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

136

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

137

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

138

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

139

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

140

James Wong on ethnobotany and why plants REALLY matter.

141

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

142

Bring on the Tomato Revolution. Tomatoes and Star Wars.

143

Autumn: Is the gardening season over?

144

Andy's Story

145

Kate's Story

146

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