In episode 3, Dan and Julia mull the merits of putting your garden to bed for winter, sharing tips on preparing for windy weather and making space for tender plants that need protection from the cold. Julia chooses chillies for her 'top of the crops' slot and explains how to take cuttings from herb plants, while Dan offers advice on choosing and planting tulips, throwing the spotlight on three of his favourite bulb-planting tools. Julia's top chillies : 'Cayenne', 'Longhorn', 'Basket of Fire' (b...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In a break from their standard format, Dan & Julia chat about how they began gardening, reminisce about their first gardens and recall the gardens and gardeners that inspired them. Website links: Dan Cooper Garden Parker's Patch Middle-Sized Garden You Tube Channel Alitex Modern Victorian Greenhouses Alitex Adventures In Flowers Workshop Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 04, 2023•46 min•Season 2Ep. 2
As summer eases into autumn, our gardens reach a colourful crescendo. In this episode, Dan & Julia share their favourite flowers and crops for extending the season, taking inspiration from their gardens and visits to Great Dixter, Sussex Prairies, East Ruston Old Vicarage and Doddington Place. Julia offers advice on autumn sowing and shares her top of the crops - delicious, juicy figs. Dan describes his new range of flower bowls and explains how to keep dahlias healthy and blooming for as lo...
Sep 15, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The gardens at Great Dixter are famed across the globe for their exuberance, colour and intimacy. Driven by a sense of adventure and a mission to help others get involved in horticulture, Fergus Garrett has built on the legacy of his friend and mentor, Christopher Lloyd, never allowing Dixter to stand still and delighting thousands of visitors every season. In mid-August 2023, Julia and I were lucky enough to grab half an hour with Fergus to get his tips on late summer colour, discover his deser...
Aug 23, 2023•34 min
In the final episode of this series, Dan and Julia share tips for adapting your garden to cope with hotter, drier summers. Julia offers advice on getting your plot holiday-ready, and Dan showcases a product that can act as a mulch, fertiliser and slug deterrent. This episode's drought-proof 'top of the crops' is the stately artichoke, and Dan chooses salvias as his sun-loving 'pick of the bunch'. Your hosts return in late summer / early autumn for Series 2 and would love to hear about any topics...
Jun 23, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Dan and Julia discuss how to spot and deal with common summertime pests, including cabbage white butterflies, red spider mites and asparagus beetles. Julia gets stuck into salads, explaining how to grow a succession of lush leaves throughout the year. Dan recalls happy memories of Dame Edna Everage and her wonderful gladies, sharing tips on how to grow these fabulous flowers without all the stiffness and formality they've become known for. Julia's Favourite Salad Leaves: Lettuce 'Black Seeded Si...
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Join us for our first-ever outside broadcast from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023. We celebrate Alitex's Best Trade Stand award and discover how Julia was involved in making it happen. We share our show highlights and reveal some of the work that goes on behind the scenes to deliver the world's most prestigious flower show. Please note that batteries for charging your phone can be hired for £3 for every 30 minutes, not every hour, as Dan states. Should we do more outside broadcasts? Would you l...
May 25, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Episode 5 has a Chelsea Flower Show flavour. Dan & Julia debate the value of a ticket to the world's most prestigious horticultural event and explain how to administer the Chelsea chop to flowering perennials and herbs. Crisp, crunchy radishes are Julia's pick of the crop, and Dan breaks a self-imposed rule by celebrating deciduous azaleas, a plant that doesn't thrive in his chalky soil. For Dan & Julia's complete guide to surviving Chelsea, click here . For more advice on administering ...
May 12, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this fortnight's episode, Dan & Julia talk tomatoes, chat about compost and wax lyrical about wallflowers. Dan introduces his new Dutch planting trowel, similar to the traditional tool cherished by Monty Don, and Julia explains how to grow ginger from supermarket-bought roots. Your hosts look forward to an action-packed coronation weekend and the crowning of King Charles III, one of the nation's most celebrated garden makers. Julia's jobs to do in the next two weeks: Earth up potatoes as ...
Apr 28, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In episode 3, Dan and Julia discuss how to grow awesome asparagus, go crazy for Japanese kenzan, celebrate a much-overlooked foliage plant and bemoan the fate of the suburban front garden. Julia explains how to get more bang for your buck when buying pot-grown herbs from the supermarket, and Dan reveals the top jobs to do in your garden over the next fortnight. You'll find these listed below, along with details of the plants, products and events mentioned in the podcast. Dan and Julia's jobs for...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 3
Will it? Won't it? As March draws to a close, spring is teasing us, but Dan and Julia see signs of spring everywhere they look. In episode 2, the Two Good Gardeners get animated about April, celebrating foraged food in the form of wild garlic, sharing the joy of daffodils and warning against planting delicate plants outside too soon. Dan offers advice on growing dahlias from seed, cuttings and tubers, and Julia shares a thrifty Easter project involving egg boxes. Additional resources: Dan's guid...
Mar 31, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to Two Good Gardeners, sponsored by Alitex, home of the modern Victorian greenhouse. In our first episode, we ask the question 'to chit or not to chit', share thrifty tricks with toilet roll tubes, explain how to help your garden survive the mad March snow and offer tips for staying on top of your garden over the next fortnight. If you've enjoyed our foray into podcasting, please subscribe for notifications when we upload new episodes. Resources For more on how to chit potatoes, you'll f...
Mar 16, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 1
