Can You No-Dig it?
PSA: NOT putting in a ton of back-breaking work actually yields better results for your garden, Pippa explains why. Plus, Zoe quizzes Pippa on asparagus and time travel.
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Can I Dig It? is made by:
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S2:E9 The Great Garden Show Question Time
On Saturday 16 May, we welcomed renowned gardening experts Alan Titchmarsh, Marian Boswall, Charles Dowding, Tony Kirkham and Matthew Pottage to field questions from visitors inside the Story of Gardening.
Recorded in front of a live audience at The Great Garden Show 2026, this special episode is...
Milli Proust // Seed Grower, Florist, Alma Proust, Anxiety, Drying Flowers, Compost Palace (UK)
--This episode is proudly sponsored by Veggie and Flower Garden Seeds. This Tassie-based, family run business are the go-to destination for veggie, native, herb and flower seeds, specialising in hard-to-get varieties. We love their search functionality - you can filter by colour of flower, whethe...
Summer Series - Revisiting Charles Dowding - No Dig Guru (New Intro)
Welcome to our short and sharp summer series where we revisit some of your very favourite episodes. We've added an additional little intro, reflecting on our chat with Charles Dowding and general updates since then. things we've been working on since then. Gosh we loved revisiting this chat with ...
Charles Dowding / Biodynamics, Politics of Allotments, The Fast Five / Part 2
In this episode, we return for part 2 of our conversation with Charles Dowding, the guru of no dig gardening. If you haven't listened to Part 1, feel free to go back and brush up on the basics of no dig, composting and weeding, before diving head first into this episode where we explore planting ...
Charles Dowding / Guru of no dig gardening / Part 1
Pinch us! We had the chance to speak with the guru of no dig gardening himself, Mr Charles Dowding. Over an hour and a half we meandered all manner of subjects including the obvious (no dig gardening, composting, weeding) and the maybe less obvious - the politics of gardening, UK alotments, micro...
Gardening Myths That Waste Your Time, with No Dig Pioneer Charles Dowding
Charles Dowding is a market gardener, author, and teacher best known for pioneering the no dig method of growing food. In this episode, he talks about how leaving soil undisturbed grows more food with less work, the 13 year trial beds that prove it, growing £42,000 of produce on half an acre, inv...
Forty Years Without Digging What Charles Dowding Learned by Leaving Soil Alone
What if the best thing you could do for your garden is stop trying so hard? Charles Dowding has spent over four decades proving soil doesn't want to be dug; it wants to be left alone. Raised on a dairy farm in Somerset, he started questioning conventional gardening in 1982 and never dug his beds ...
Ep 1: Intros, Full Sun and Water Conservation
Welcome to Episode 1 of The Blooming Valley Garden Club Podcast! Hosts Bethany and Justine are thrilled to welcome you to our space dedicated to gardening and sharing knowledge on all things plant life.
In this inaugural episode, we chat about water conservation methods (Bethany has a VERY nift...
