Loving Your Garden - Better Gardening Podcast Rod Whiting

It’s always a pleasure to welcome our favourite Nature Watcher Mary Porter onto LYG. Spring in the UK is a great time for an update from Mary whose knowledge and experience of the natural world is much appreciated by all of us at LYG and to listeners of her regular spot on my Boom Radio show. This is a lovely chat about the current state of our wildlife and how we can encourage more creatures into our gardens, both for the good of the environment and our mental-wellbeing.
In association with Magic Mind - Mental Performance Shots
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If you've not yet visited our LYG Facebook site, here's the link:
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You'll find a friendly community of gardeners from many backgrounds, all sharing a love of plants and gardening. 
Please get in touch with any feedback or questions for John to: rod@ultravoxtraining.com

  In association with Magic Mind - Mental Performance Shots
They have a limited offer you can use now, that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one-time purchases with code LOVEGARDEN20 at checkout
You can claim it at: https://www.magicmind.com/lovegarden 

We have a double bonus for you in our latest episode with John Stirland laying out some solid tips for getting your lawn into top shape for Summer and with guest Ed Zamo dropping into Rod's Summerhouse with a professional take on removing nuisance tree or shrub stumps from your garden.
I've created some chapters if you're in a hurry but this is fun and full of useful tips so it's well worth staying through the episode.

Ed's website for further info:
https://www.stumpbeaver.co.uk/

If you've not yet visited our LYG Facebook site, here's the link:
https://bit.ly/3oIzVr9
You'll find a friendly community of gardeners from a variety of backgrounds all sharing a love of plants and gardening. 

There is nothing so satisfying than adding food to your dinner plate that you've grown from seed.  While many gardeners are well-equipped to sow and propagate both vegetables and ornamentals,  most others prefer the convenience of potted and plug plants. However, with the costs of plants and food now a significant factor, growing from seed is an attractive option. 
Tom Sharples has devoted almost half a century to the seed industry and recently retired as Senior Horticultural Manager at Suttons Seeds. Following on from John Stirland's practical advice for seed-sowing earlier in the year, Tom shares his knowledge and tips for our latest episode including the one thing you should do when buying seed from a garden centre.

If you've not yet visited our LYG Facebook site, here's the link:
https://bit.ly/3oIzVr9
You'll find a friendly community of gardeners from a variety of backgrounds all sharing a love of plants and gardening. 

Deep Joy! Winter's last hurrah is nearly upon us, at least if you're in Northern Europe, and it's time to finish off the Winter pruning. Our resident horticulturist John Stirland covers the basics and answers member questions on specific plants including Philadelphus, Fig, Ceonothus, Honeysuckle, and roses. As ever, John covers a lot of ground with lots of snippets of really useful information so it's worth listening through the whole half hour.

If you've not yet visited our LYG Facebook site, here's the link:
https://bit.ly/3oIzVr9
You'll find a friendly community of gardeners from a variety of backgrounds all sharing a love of plants and gardening. 

Our resident horticulturist John Stirland kicks off season 4 of Loving Your Garden - Better Gardening Podcast with a masterclass in seed sowing.  John is in full flow here with oodles of great advice on growing plants from seed as a new gardening year gets underway. John also takes questions from our LYG site members.  It's best to sit back and enjoy the full episode but if you're tight for time, our chapter guide may be helpful.

If you've not yet visited our LYG Facebook site, here's the link:
https://bit.ly/3oIzVr9
You'll find a friendly community of gardeners from a variety of backgrounds all sharing a love of plants and gardening. 

You'll need to check out the Loving Your Garden site to see our festive guests in their Santa gear but you can hear the fun in our season finale as horticulturist, gardening writer, broadcaster and RHS judge, Martin Fish, and multi-award-winning garden designer, David Stevens join John Stirland and LYG founder Rod Whiting for an end of season chat over a tipple or two.
Have a pen and paper handy as we discuss a busy gardening year, highlights & failures (yes, professionals have them too), and plans for the New Year with lots of plant suggestions and advice about design, trees for smaller gardens, and winter plants, amongst other things.
If you're strapped for time, you can select from our chapters although you're better listening through so as not to miss any nuggets from our excellent guests.

Thanks to our UK-based sponsors Fitzgerald Laing Decorators:
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PROUD TO HAVE BEEN A FINALIST  IN THE ‘22 GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDS FOR PODCAST OF THE YEAR.