Huw Richards: Smart veg growing tips for busy gardeners - Episode 271
4/23/202625 min
The magic of growing your own food is hard to overstate, and while some lament the labour necessary, it takes far less time and space than many imagine.
This week’s ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ once again features the remarkable Huw Richards, fresh from the release of ‘How to Grow Food’ - his new book which dives into the detail of how anyone can grow a kitchen garden in real spaces, with a planting schedule that fits around busy lives.
In this episode, discover:
- How Huw plans and plants to grow enough veg for a family of four on a half allotment in just a few hours a week
- Simple permaculture-inspired tricks for better germination
- What causes common problems like courgette fruits rotting and dropping off, and how you can fix them
- How to choose between longer crops and cut-and-come-again with limited space
- Huw’s must-sow crops for April, including squash, runner beans, cucumbers, and courgettes
Episode Cover Photo Credit: Dorling Kindersley: Jason Ingram
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Nasturtium 'Tip Top Mix' (Tropaeolum majus)
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Nasturtium 'Ladybird Rose' (Tropaeolum minus)
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Borago officinalis (Borage)
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First 90 secondsSarah Raven· Host0:00
This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit, and stylish lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of garden inspiration, how-to videos, and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraven.com today to discover even more. [upbeat music] Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and Huw Richards is joining me again. He was here with me in February when we were talking about the amazing phenomenon that is his life, where he started growing veg when he was 11 or 12. Well, as he pointed out in that podcast actually, from his pram really. [laughs] But, but, um, his YouTube channel started when he was 11 or 12 years old, which is quite an amazing thing, and he, uh, now has millions of followers who watch him every week, including half the people in the States, uh, as well as the UK. Uh, I mean, it's just e- extraordinary. And rather like me, I think he has quite high energy levels, which might verge on the manic, rather like [laughs] rather like