Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVeg to sow now, celebrating Daffodils and Jekka’s 100 herbs
While damp weather is making it tricky to get in to the garden there is still plenty to keep Dave and Jules Hardy busy at Esker Farm Daffodils. Sinc…
1 year, 11 months ago
How to reduce the mowing and increase spring colour, the wonders of wild garlic and perennial of the month
This week, David Maxwell visits Brendan Little in his garden on the shores of Mulroy Bay in county Donegal. What was once a formal lawn is now covere…
2 years ago
Where to start in the garden this spring, Jimi Blake’s new borders and producing trees on an industrial scale
As Spring officially begins, David Maxwell heads to Jimi Blake’s Hunting Brook Garden in the hills of County Wicklow where he has brand new borders i…
2 years ago
Gardening in a war zone and the Great Gardeners’ Corner Grow Along
Two years to the day since the war in Ukraine began, presenter David Maxwell hears the powerful story of how a garden has helped one family close the…
2 years ago
Last-minute rose pruning made easy, Lissadell House, and perennial of the month
In this week’s programme, David heads to the Green Spaces Community Growing Project near Warrenpoint where the volunteers are getting the garden read…
2 years ago
How plants can help solve serious crimes, helping our hedgehogs and ‘Anya the garden fairy’
How can plants help solve serious crimes? In this week’s Gardeners’ Corner David Maxwell meets the forensic experts that use plants to give them clue…
2 years, 1 month ago
Clearing up after the storms, in search of the giant lobelia, and perennial of the month
After a week of storms, David heads to the gardens at Hillsborough Castle where Claire Woods is surveying the trees for damage. Claire explains that …
2 years, 1 month ago
What snow does for the garden, fixing rusty leeks and what to harvest in January
What happens to our gardens when it snows? This week David Maxwell heads to Downhill Demesne on Antrim’s north coast to see how a blanket of white tr…
2 years, 1 month ago
How to prune roses, plants for winter interest and preparing the garden for 2024
With another new year stretching out ahead, David Maxwell is joined in studio by Brendan Little for the first live programme of 2024. They’ll be chat…
2 years, 1 month ago
Gardeners’ Corner: Season by Season
In the garden we are often thinking of the seasons to come, but it can also be useful to look back and take stock at the start of a new year. This w…
2 years, 2 months ago