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Growing Up Podcast — 133 episodes

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Gardening Jobs for May

2

The reality of being a woman working in horticulture

3

Gardening for Bees

4

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

5

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

6

Growing a Flower Farm with a Business Plan

7

All Natural Pest Control? Is it possible?

8

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

9

Planting Hardy Herbs During Early Spring

10

Gardening Jobs for March

11

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

12

Seed Sowing Tips: Seed Sowing 101

13

How to Grow Potatoes

14

Gardening Jobs for February

15

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

16

How to Garden Using Raised Beds

17

New Year Growing Resolutions 2026

18

Gardening jobs for January - time to get creative.

19

Growing Up Podcast Christmas Party

20

We eat mince pies and evaluate the 2025 Growing Season.

21

What makes a plant "bad"?

22

Gardening Jobs for December - there is loads to do!

23

How to grow Garlic and make Poinsettias last beyond Christmas

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

Victorian Plant Hunters

28

Talking gardening with a 'non gardener'.

29

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

30

Gardening jobs for October

31

The Harvest Festival: we review our year so far.

32

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

33

Embracing an autumnal gardening mindset.....

34

Gardening in the night garden

35

Gardening Jobs for September

36

Garden planning and design for the future....

37

Kate's Story 2.0

38

Andy's Story 2.0

39

Gardening Jobs for August

40

Growing Up Podcast Season THREE Starts Here.

41

The Second Herb Season

42

Gardening Jobs for July

43

Heatwave gardening.....

44

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

45

Summer arrives in the herb garden...

46

We answer YOUR questions.

47

Gardening Jobs for June

48

Growing things can save your life.

49

Horticulture is hard and the weirdness of spring.

50

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

51

Gardening Jobs for May

52

Trees: Part II

53

Viking Gardening

54

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

55

The magic of blank slate gardening and a beginner mentality

56

Garden centres and the joy of buying plants.

57

Trees 101

58

Growing Herbs during early Spring

59

Gardening Jobs for March

60

The importance of growing as a community.

61

Microgreens 101

62

Tips for starting a Brand New Allotment

63

Gardening Jobs for February

64

Chilli Growing 101

65

Planning the 2025 Growing Season

66

New Year Growing Resolutions.

67

Gardening jobs for January

68

The Growing Up Podcast Christmas Party

69

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

70

After the storm.....

71

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

72

Caring for the herbs in your winter herb garden.

73

No Dig with Charles Dowding.

74

Bulb Growing 101

75

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

76

Is 'profit' a dirty word in horticulture?

77

Composting 101

78

The hidden beauty of mushrooms.

79

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

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

Gardening Jobs for September - such an exciting month

85

The importance of soil health with Becky Searle @sow_much_more

86

Can you really sow seeds in August?

87

Gardening Jobs for August, heat, water and slugs!

88

Moving into a new garden - where to start?

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

Growing Tomatoes - top tips from Tomato Revolution

96

Gardening Jobs for June

97

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

98

Polytunnel Growing 101

99

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

100

Teaching school kids to grow food within inner city Birmingham.

101

Gardening Jobs for May

102

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

103

Planning Mum and Dad's Garden

104

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

105

Gardening through April showers - is anyone else feeling soggy?

106

Bringing wildlife into your growing space.

107

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

108

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

109

Medieval gardening - we travel back in time.

110

Get ready for the acceleration of growth

111

Herbs to plant in early Spring.

112

Roots Allotments: A new way of doing allotments

113

Gardening and Lockdown - a Spring like no other.

114

Let's go to the Farmers Market!

115

Gardening Jobs for February - what a strange gardening month.

116

Growing food and the importance of slow living.

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

James Wong on ethnobotany and why plants REALLY matter.

128

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

129

Bring on the Tomato Revolution. Tomatoes and Star Wars.

130

Autumn: Is the gardening season over?

131

Andy's Story

132

Kate's Story

133

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