Talking Heads - a Gardening Podcast - Ep.21 - The May bank holiday means more time in our home gardens - Saul has been joining online botanical classes from Florida and Lucy has been growing and selling plants from her Essex garden....

Ep.21 - The May bank holiday means more time in our home gardens - Saul has been joining online botanical classes from Florida and Lucy has been growing and selling plants from her Essex garden....

05/04/20 • 22 min

Lucy and Saul are fully aware that the world has taken a monumental shift - the Coronavirus outbreak has left our little bit of the world in Horticulture reeling both personally and professionally. So we both decided that instead of our longer format episodes every 3 weeks or so - we going to record shorter podcasts, through the week, to bring you a slice of our lives at East Donyland Hall and Stonelands and beyond - trying to bring a little bit of spring and sunshine to your eardrums.
Bank holidays are always gardening weekends in Lucy and Saul's houses - an extra day tending to there own personal patches is always well needed a they spend most of there times tending the larger gardens at Stonelands and East Donyland, but what have they been up to. Well Saul always relishes extra time to learn more about his beloved tropical plants - this time joining an Online Class given live by Fairchild Botanical Garden on Gingers, and Lucy spends more time in her amazing Kitchen Garden at home where among many weird and wonderful veg she is growing Agretti - a halophyte that adds a little crunch to her salads.
(Edit: It was only Monday afternoon when Saul realised it wasn't a Bank Holiday and spent the rest of the day feeling quite stupid as he pottered away in his garden at home. Having said that he's not changing this podcast now!)
Twitter links:
Saul @GardeningSaul
Lucy @HeadGardenerLC
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"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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undefined - Bonus Episode #3: Lucy and Saul in conversation with Tom Brown - Head Gardener at West Dean Gardens, West Sussex - we talk about his career from RHS Wisley to West Dean and how he and the garden is coping with the current health crisis...

Bonus Episode #3: Lucy and Saul in conversation with Tom Brown - Head Gardener at West Dean Gardens, West Sussex - we talk about his career from RHS Wisley to West Dean and how he and the garden is coping with the current health crisis...

From time to time Lucy and Saul decided they wanted to record conversations with other Head Gardeners, Curators, Garden Owners and fellow horticulturists across the UK, these will be published as Bonus Episodes alongside their usual format of chatting about their gardening lives. We hope you enjoy.
For the Bonus Episode #3 we're really pleased to welcome Tom Brown, new(ish) Head Gardener at West Dean Gardens in West Sussex. Tom shares his gardening journey from work in the Plant Shop at Wisley, through supervising the Trial Grounds, taking the big step into head gardening at Parham House, to taking on one of the UK's most celebrated gardens at West Dean, where his first full season in charge hasn't quite gone as planned - but he's making the most of it!
Twitter links:
Tom @HeadGardenerTom
Saul @GardeningSaul
Lucy @HeadGardenerLC
Intro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io
"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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undefined - Ep.22 - One of the lessons Lucy and Saul have learnt with many years experience, is it's not what you grow in your Kitchen Garden, but how you use your crops that may be the most important factor in how you manage your growing season....

Ep.22 - One of the lessons Lucy and Saul have learnt with many years experience, is it's not what you grow in your Kitchen Garden, but how you use your crops that may be the most important factor in how you manage your growing season....

Lucy and Saul are fully aware that the world has taken a monumental shift - the Coronavirus outbreak has left our little bit of the world in Horticulture reeling both personally and professionally. So we both decided that instead of our longer format episodes every 3 weeks or so - we going to record shorter podcasts, through the week, to bring you a slice of our lives at East Donyland Hall and Stonelands and beyond - trying to bring a little bit of spring and sunshine to your eardrums.
As the growing season reaches full steam Lucy is starting to crop some of her early sowings of spinach, radishes and salad leaves,and Saul is harvesting regular spears from the Asparagus. Though this is the exciting end of growing your own vegetables both realise that having a realistic way of using the produce is the most important factor in planning the kitchen garden in the first place. This is more important when as Head Gardeners they are growing produce for their owners, learning there eating habits, the vegetables and fruit they prefer and ensuring as little waste as possible.
Twitter links:
Saul @GardeningSaul
Lucy @HeadGardenerLC
Intro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io
"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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