Roots and All - Gardening Podcast

By Sarah Wilson

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Episodes: 294

Anton
 Mar 27, 2020
One of the most informative and interesting gardening podcasts. A very simple format that works. Sarah gets great guests then just extracts lots of fascinating facts out of them in a relaxed and unobtrusive fashion.

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Do you want to know how to grow plants and get the best out of your outdoor space? Do you find traditional gardening media baffling and/or boring? Then you’re in the right place, because the Roots and All podcast is here to dig deep into how to create a successful garden. If you want honest information and insider knowledge about how to get results, join irreverent horticulturist Sarah Wilson as she chats to the best people from the world of plants and gardens. Sarah is on a mission to help you create your own beautiful green environment, with a focus on saving resources and working with nature. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast to make sure you don’t miss an episode.

Episode Date
Garlic
Mar 25, 2024
Sustainability Matters
Mar 18, 2024
Historic Tulips
Mar 11, 2024
Unearthing
Mar 04, 2024
Episode 275 - Community Gardening
Feb 26, 2024
Episode 274 -Natural Swimming Ponds
Feb 19, 2024
Episode 273 - Landscape Led
Feb 12, 2024
Episode 272 - Living with the Earth
Feb 05, 2024
Episode 271 - Japanese Maples
Jan 29, 2024
Episode 270 - Herbology
Jan 22, 2024
Episode 269 - What Do Garden Designers Do?
Jan 15, 2024
Episode 268 - The Death Flower
Dec 18, 2023
Episode 267 - Growing Box: Moths, Blight and Solutions!
Dec 11, 2023
Episode 266 - The Winter Garden
Dec 04, 2023
Episode 265 - Natural Fibres
Nov 27, 2023
Episode 264 - Looking out for Bumblebees
Nov 20, 2023
Episode 263 - Ooooby - Out of Our Own Back Yard
Nov 13, 2023
Episode 262 - Low Impact & Environmentally Conscious Design
Nov 06, 2023
Episode 261 - The Butterfly Garden
Oct 30, 2023
Episode 260 - Moon Gardens
Oct 23, 2023
Episode 259 - Unusual Edible Plants
Oct 16, 2023
Episode 258 - Grow Fruit Trees Well
Oct 09, 2023
Episode 257 -Taste Your Garden
Oct 02, 2023
Episode 256 - Urban Bees
Sep 23, 2023
Episode 255 - Lawns
Sep 18, 2023
Episode 254 - Buddlejas and Lavenders
Sep 11, 2023
The Lost Gardens of Loughrigg
Sep 04, 2023
Aromatic Gardening
Aug 21, 2023
Green Roofs & City Wildlife
Aug 21, 2023
The Human Garden
Aug 14, 2023
Designing Responsibly Built Environments
Aug 07, 2023
The Container Victory Garden
Jul 31, 2023
Botanical Education
Jul 24, 2023
Urban Smallholding
Jul 17, 2023
The Language of Trees
Jul 10, 2023
The Biodiversity Gardener
Jul 03, 2023
Magical Plants and Flowers
Jun 26, 2023
Soil - The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Jun 19, 2023
Wild Mothers
Jun 12, 2023
Guerrilla Gardening
Jun 05, 2023
Growing Biodiversity
May 29, 2023
Toss the Salad!
May 22, 2023
The Apothecary
May 15, 2023
Mosses
May 06, 2023
Woodchip
Apr 30, 2023
The End of the Life Cycle
Apr 24, 2023
Houseplant Legends
Apr 17, 2023
Ecologically Integrated Gardens
Apr 10, 2023
Poison Prescriptions
Apr 03, 2023
Sensory Gardens & Autism
Mar 27, 2023
Can Women Save the Planet?
Mar 20, 2023
The Chelsea Fringe
Mar 13, 2023
Seed Balls
Mar 06, 2023
Soil Bacteria & Rhizophagy
Feb 27, 2023
Hardy Eucalyptus
Feb 20, 2023
Making Gardening Accessible
Feb 13, 2023
Hedges and Living Boundaries
Feb 07, 2023
Hedges & Living Boundaries
Feb 06, 2023
Nature from the Rubble
Jan 30, 2023
Sky Gardening
Jan 23, 2023
The Gardener's Almanac
Jan 16, 2023
The Wheel of the Year
Dec 19, 2022
Creating Natural Habitats in the Garden
Dec 12, 2022
Composting & Bokashi
Dec 05, 2022
Korean Natural Farming
Nov 28, 2022
Deer Resilient Gardens
Nov 21, 2022
Food Forests for Plant Lovers
Nov 14, 2022
Weird & Wonderful Plants
Nov 07, 2022
Biological Controls
Oct 31, 2022
How to Grow the Flowers
Oct 24, 2022
Gardening in a Changing World
Oct 17, 2022
Soundscapes and Landscapes
Oct 10, 2022
Episode 179: Ecological Gardens with Sid Hill
Oct 03, 2022
Podcast 178 - Alternative Allotments
Sep 26, 2022
Episode 177: Propagating Plants
Sep 19, 2022
Episode 176: Gardening on a Gradient
Sep 12, 2022
Episode 175: No Dig with Charles Dowding
Sep 05, 2022
Episode 174: Gardening for Your Senses
Aug 29, 2022
Podcast 173 - The Composting Process
Aug 22, 2022
Episode 172: Your Garden Spa
Aug 15, 2022
Episode 171: A Rolling Stone Gathering Moss
Aug 08, 2022
Podcast 170 - Sassy Farming
Aug 01, 2022
Episode 169: Creating Meadows with James Hewetson-Brown
Jul 25, 2022
Podcast 168 - Britain’s Birds with Benedict Macdonald
Jul 18, 2022
Episode 167: Hoverflies
Jul 11, 2022
Episode 166: Historic Roses
Jul 04, 2022
Episode 165: Gardening for Wildlife
Jun 27, 2022
Episode 164: Growing Under Protection
Jun 20, 2022
Episode 163: Garden Roots
Jun 13, 2022
Episode 161: Connecting with Plants
Jun 06, 2022
Podcast 161 - Show Gardens
May 30, 2022
Episode 160: Crevice Gardens
May 23, 2022
Episode 159: Huw Richards on Veg Growing
May 16, 2022
Episode158: Irises with Clare Keller
May 05, 2022
Episode 157: Climate Cuisine with Clarissa Wei
May 04, 2022
Episode 156: Bonsai with John Hanby
Apr 25, 2022
Podcast 155 - Forage for Mushrooms Without Dying
Apr 18, 2022
Episode154 - Food Forest Garden
Apr 11, 2022
Podcast 153 - Lichen
Apr 04, 2022
Podcast 152 - A Therapist’s Garden
Mar 28, 2022
Podcast 151 - Violas
Mar 21, 2022
Podcast 150 - Welcome to Mintopia
Mar 14, 2022
Podcast 149 - Feeding Your Soil with Humanure
Mar 07, 2022
Podcast 148 - The Plants of Armenia
Feb 28, 2022
Podcast 147 - Beans, beans good for…the planet!
Feb 21, 2022
Podcast 146 - Seeking Rare Plants
Feb 14, 2022
Podcast 145 - Painting the Georgian Garden
Feb 07, 2022
Podcast 144 - Sharing and Borrowing Gardens
Jan 31, 2022
Podcast 143 - Saving Our Seeds
Jan 24, 2022
Podcast 142 - Grow Easy with Anna Greenland
Jan 17, 2022
Podcast 141 - Christmas Round Up
Dec 20, 2021
Podcast 140 - Darwin’s Garden with Dr Jude Piesse
Dec 13, 2021
Podcast 139 - Cottage Gardens with Andrew Sankey
Dec 06, 2021
Podcast 138 - Plan, Plant & Maintain Fruit Trees with Wade Muggleton
Nov 29, 2021
Podcast 137 - Water-wise Gardening with Janet Manning
Nov 22, 2021
Podcast 136 - The View From Federal Twist with James Golden
Nov 15, 2021
Podcast 135 - By Any Other Name with Simon Morley
Nov 08, 2021
Podcast 134 - Camellias with Fiona Edmond
Nov 01, 2021
Podcast 133 - Caring For God’s Acre with Harriet Carty
Oct 25, 2021
Podcast 132 - The Jungle Garden with Philip Oostenbrink
Oct 18, 2021
Podcast 131 - Making a Wildlife Garden with Chris Baines
Oct 11, 2021
Podcast 130 - Cosmos & Hollyhocks with Jonathan Sheppard
Oct 04, 2021
Podcast 129 - Growing Big Veg with Social Media Star Gerald Stratford
Sep 27, 2021
Podcast 128 - So you want to write a gardening book? With writer Catherine Mack
Sep 20, 2021
Podcast 127 - John Brookes and Denmans with Gwendolyn van Paasschen
Sep 19, 2021
Podcast 126 - Wild Food with Marlow Renton
Sep 06, 2021
Podcast 125 - Modern Plant Hunters with Dr Sandy Primrose
Aug 30, 2021
Podcast 124 - Hydrangeas with Roger Butler of Golden Hill Nursery
Aug 23, 2021
Podcast 123 - New Nordic Gardens with Annika Zetterman
Aug 16, 2021
Podcast 122 - The Forager’s Garden with Anna Locke
Aug 09, 2021
Podcast 121 - Head Gardeners with Ambra Edwards
Aug 02, 2021
Podcast 120 - Growing Real Food for Nutrition
Jul 26, 2021
Podcast 119 - Botanical Styling with Michelle Mason
Jul 19, 2021
Podcast 118 - Coastal Gardens with Mark Laurence
Jul 12, 2021
Podcast 117 - The Rose in Perfume with Mairi MacKenzie
Jul 05, 2021
Podcast 116 - Therapy Gardening with Carol Sales
Jun 28, 2021
Podcast 115 - The State of Horticulture with Matthew Appleby
Jun 21, 2021
Podcast 114 - Grounded: A Gardener’s Journey to Abundance and Self-Sufficiency with Liz Zorab
Jun 14, 2021
Podcast 113 - Growing Under Cover with Niki Jabbour
Jun 07, 2021
Podcast 112 - Swapcast: Plants Grow Here Podcast
May 31, 2021
Podcast 111 - Companion Planting with Jessica Walliser
May 24, 2021
Podcast 110 - Greg Peterson of The Urban Farm
May 17, 2021
Podcast 109 - The Botanical Mind with Gina Buenfeld
May 10, 2021
Podcast 108 - Dr Glynn Percival of Bartlett Tree Experts
May 03, 2021
Podcast 107 - RAA Takeover: Young Propagators Society
Apr 26, 2021
Podcast 106 - In Search of Mycotopia with Doug Bierend
Apr 19, 2021
Dig In: So & Mo
Apr 15, 2021
Podcast 105 - The Love Lives of Birds with Laura Erickson
Apr 12, 2021
Podcast 104 - Stephen Hackett of Horatio’s Garden South West
Apr 05, 2021
Podcast 103 - Adventures in Eden with Carolyn Mullet
Mar 29, 2021
Dig In: Harvst
Mar 25, 2021
Introducing Dig In
Mar 23, 2021
Podcast 102 - The Garden of Equal Delights with Anni Kelsey
Mar 22, 2021
Podcast 101 - GrowVeg with Benedict Vanheems
Mar 15, 2021
Podcast 100 - The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments
Mar 08, 2021
Podcast 99 - Pollinators & Pollination with Professor Jeff Ollerton
Mar 01, 2021
Podcast 98 - Cats and Gardens
Feb 22, 2021
Podcast 97 - The Psychology of Gardening with Professor Harriet Gross
Feb 15, 2021
Podcast 96 - Ben Cross of Crosslands Flower Nursery
Feb 08, 2021
Podcast 95 - No Winter Garden Should be Without...
Feb 01, 2021
Podcast 94 - Wild Gardens with Jo McKerr
Jan 25, 2021
Podcast 93 - Meadows with Keith Datchler
Jan 18, 2021
Podcast 92 - Greening the Paranormal with Dr Jack Hunter
Dec 21, 2020
Anna Soper on Kate Crooks
Dec 14, 2020
Podcast 90 - Soil Testing with Robert Galster of Safe Soil UK
Dec 07, 2020
Podcast 89 - Tokachi Millennium Forest with Dan Pearson & Midori Shintani
Nov 30, 2020
Podcast 88 - Biochar with Lottie & Connor of Earthly Biochar
Nov 23, 2020
Podcast 87 - Green Roofs with Dr Anna Zakrisson
Nov 16, 2020
Podcast 86 - Herbs with Barbara Wilkinson of The Herb Society
Nov 09, 2020
Podcast 85 - An Economic History of the English Garden with Sir Roderick Floud
Nov 02, 2020
Podcast 85 - An Economic History of the English Garden with Sir Roderick Floud
Nov 02, 2020
Podcast 84 - Permaculture with Graham Burnett
Oct 26, 2020
Episode 83: Heritage Apples with Caroline Ball
Oct 19, 2020
Podcast 82 - Nerines with Nick de Rothschild
Oct 12, 2020
Podcast 81 - Probiotics for Your Garden with Sue Allen of Microbz
Oct 05, 2020
Podcast 80 - Hedgerow Foraging with Joff Curtoys
Sep 28, 2020
Podcast 79 - Gardening Post-Lockdown with Adam Kirtland
Sep 21, 2020
Podcast 78 - Sweet Peas with Philip Johnson
Sep 14, 2020
Podcast 77 - More Than Weeds and More with Sophie Leguil
Sep 07, 2020
Podcast 76 - I Want to Like my Garden with Rachel McCartain
Aug 31, 2020
Podcast 75 - Botanical Storytelling with Amanda Edmiston
Aug 24, 2020
Podcast 74 - Wasps with Richard Jones
Aug 17, 2020
Mycorrhizhal Fungi Part 2 with Petra Guy
Aug 10, 2020
Podcast 72 - Saving Our Plants with Vicki Cooke of Plant Heritage
Aug 03, 2020
Podcast 71 - Tapestry Lawns with Dr Lionel Smith
Jul 27, 2020
Podcast 70 - Growing Food with Stephanie Hafferty
Jul 20, 2020
Podcast 69 - Gardening By Touch, Sound, Smell and Taste with Andrew Hesser
Jul 13, 2020
Podcast 68 - Nature’s Best Hope with Prof. Douglas W. Tallamy
Jul 06, 2020
Podcast 67 - Sensory Herbalism with Karen Lawton
Jun 29, 2020
Podcast 66 - How to Coexist Happily With The Bugs in Your Garden
Jun 22, 2020
Podcast 65 - James Basson of Scape Design
Jun 16, 2020
Podcast 64 - Organic Farming in Kenya with Simon Murungi
Jun 09, 2020
Podcast 63 - The Secret Life of Crows with Ricky Whelan
Jun 02, 2020
Podcast 62 - The Living Jigsaw with Val Bourne
May 25, 2020
Podcast 61 - I Ate Sunshine for Breakfast with Michael Holland
May 19, 2020
Podcast 60 - Design Experts Part 4 with Xanthe White
May 12, 2020
Podcast 59 - Scent Magic with Isabel Bannerman
May 05, 2020
Podcast 58 - Chasing the Ghost with Peter Marren
Apr 28, 2020
Podcast 57 - Nicole Rose of Solidarity Apothecary
Apr 21, 2020
Podcast 56 - Invasive Plants with Tomos Jones
Apr 14, 2020
Podcast 55 - Butterflies with Peter Eeles
Apr 07, 2020
Podcast 54 - Making & Using Natural Dyes with Nicola Mehdi
Mar 31, 2020
Podcast 53 - Irreplaceable with Julian Hoffman
Mar 24, 2020
Podcast 52 - Grow Fruit & Vegetables in Pots with Aaron Bertelsen
Mar 17, 2020
Podcast 51 - Mycorrhizal Fungi with Jeff Lowenfels
Mar 10, 2020
Podcast 50 - Sacred Woodlands with Simon Leadbeater
Mar 03, 2020
Podcast 49 - Garden Sculpture with Victoria Leedham
Feb 25, 2020
Podcast 48 - Design Experts Part 3 with Leon Kluge
Feb 18, 2020
Podcast 47 - School Gardening
Feb 11, 2020
Introduction to Forest Gardening
Feb 04, 2020
Podcast 45 - Documenting the Natural World
Jan 28, 2020
Podcast 44 - Fergus Garrett on Biodiversity at Great Dixter
Jan 21, 2020
Podcast 43 - Pruning Roses with Richard Stubbs of David Austin
Jan 14, 2020
Podcast 42 - Wildfires with Saul Elbein
Jan 07, 2020
Podcast 41 - Kim Wilkie - Led By the Land
Dec 17, 2019
Podcast 40 - Robin Snowdon of Limeburn Hill Biodynamic Vineyard
Dec 10, 2019
Bonus Episode - Plant Passports & New DEFRA Legislation
Dec 04, 2019
Podcast 39 - Edimentals with Stephen Barstow
Dec 03, 2019
Bonus: A Review of the Podcast So Far
Nov 27, 2019
EP 38: Planting in a Post-Wild World with Thomas Rainer
Nov 26, 2019
EP 37: Beth Chatto: A Life With Plants with Catherine Horwood
Nov 19, 2019
EP 36: Apples with Naomi Slade & Sassie Yassamee
Nov 12, 2019
EP 35 - Soil with Tim O’Hare
Nov 05, 2019
Bats in Our Cities & Gardens with Jo Ferguson of the Bat Conservation Trust
Oct 29, 2019
EP 34 - Edible Mushrooms with Geoff Dann
Oct 22, 2019
Garden BirdWatch with Kate Risely of BTO
Oct 15, 2019
EP 33 - Peonies with Alec White of Primrose Hall Peonies
Oct 08, 2019
Public Green Spaces with Neil Sinden
Oct 01, 2019
EP 32 - A New Garden Ethic with Benjamin Vogt
Sep 24, 2019
Psychoactive Plants of the Amazon forest with Dr Glenn H Shepard
Sep 17, 2019
EP 31 - Edible Flowers with Jan Billington
Sep 10, 2019
Plants As Art with Alyson Mowat
Sep 03, 2019
EP 30 - Growing Orchids In Your Garden with Dr Wilson Wall
Aug 27, 2019
Budcast - The Bee Watch App with Penny Hearn
Aug 20, 2019
EP 29 - Garden Design for Every Species with John Little of the Grass Roof Company
Aug 13, 2019
Budcast - Garden Walk Around
Aug 06, 2019
EP 28 - Crops In Tight Spots with Alex Mitchell
Jul 30, 2019
Budcast - Low Allergen Planting with Olivia Kirk
Jul 23, 2019
EP 27 - The Garden Jungle with Professor Dave Goulson
Jul 16, 2019
Budcast - Chris Williams of Edibleculture Ltd
Jul 09, 2019
EP 26 - Forest Bathing with Stefan Batorijs of Nature and Therapy UK
Jul 02, 2019
Budcast - Going Peat Free with John Walker
Jun 25, 2019
EP 25 - Growing Cut Flowers with Georgie Newbery of Common Farm Flowers
Jun 18, 2019
Budcast - Iain Tolhurst Stock-Free Farming Pt. 2
Jun 11, 2019
EP 24 - Creating an Ark with Mary Reynolds
Jun 04, 2019
Budcast - Interview with Sarah Wilson
May 28, 2019
EP 23 - Social Therapeutic Horticulture with Damien Newman of Thrive
May 21, 2019
Budcast - No Dig Gardening with Charles Dowding
May 14, 2019
EP 22 - Giles Heap, Managing Director of CED Stone
May 07, 2019
Budcast - Kitchen Garden Ideas with James Mellors
Apr 30, 2019
Bonus Episode - Iain Tolhurst Vegan Organic Farming
Apr 25, 2019
EP 21 - Wildlife Gardening with Kate Bradbury
Apr 23, 2019
Invasive Plants, Garden Records & A Listener Request
Apr 16, 2019
EP 20 - Container Planting with Harriet Rycroft
Apr 09, 2019
Budcast - Exotic Plants and Why Plant Lovers Should Fear December 2019 With Graham Blunt of Plantbase Nursery in Wadhurst
Apr 02, 2019
EP 19 - Daffodils with Adrian Scamp
Mar 26, 2019
Budcast - Native and Non-native Plants - Part 2
Mar 19, 2019
Bonus Episode - Wild Food Tasting Session
Mar 13, 2019
EP 18 - Foraging with Michael Wachter
Mar 12, 2019
Budcast - Native and Non-native Plants
Mar 05, 2019
EP 17 - Hedgehogs with Hugh Warwick
Feb 26, 2019
Allotments Part 2
Feb 19, 2019
EP 16 - Poisonous Plants with Dr Liz Dauncey
Feb 12, 2019
Budcast - Open Source Seeds
Feb 05, 2019
EP 15 - Super Organic Vegan Gardening with Matthew Appleby
Jan 29, 2019
Budcast - Caroline Cotton of Fertile Fibre
Jan 22, 2019
EP 14 - Cleve West
Jan 15, 2019
Budcast - The Christmas Episode
Dec 25, 2018
EP 13 - Ivy with Angela Tandy of Fibrex Nurseries
Dec 18, 2018
Budcast - Plant Hardiness, Birds and Hand-digging
Dec 11, 2018
Episode 12 – Esiah Levy’s SeedsShare Project
Dec 04, 2018
Climate Change Gardening - Panel Discussion
Nov 30, 2018
Budcast - Plant Life Cycles
Nov 27, 2018
EP 11 - BioChar with Craig Sams of Carbon Gold
Nov 20, 2018
Budcast - Garden Jobs
Nov 13, 2018
EP 10 - Aesthetic Ecology with Toby Diggens
Nov 06, 2018
Budcast - Houseplant Update
Oct 30, 2018
EP 09 - Terry Woods - Fox-A-Gon
Oct 23, 2018
Budcast - Listener Questions
Oct 16, 2018
EP 08 - Alliums with Jackie Currie
Oct 09, 2018
Budcast - National Collections and Overdue Jobs
Oct 02, 2018
Budcast - An Introduction to Vegan Gardening
Sep 25, 2018
EP 07 - Trees
Sep 18, 2018
Episode 11 - Carnivorous Plants
Sep 11, 2018
Episode 10 - August? Meh!
Sep 04, 2018
Episode 9 - Houseplants
Aug 28, 2018
Episode 8 - Terrariums and Tulips
Aug 21, 2018
Episode 7 - Letting You in on a Secret
Aug 14, 2018
Episode 6 - Allotments Part 1
Aug 07, 2018
Episode 5 - How to Cope in a Dastardly Drought
Jul 31, 2018
Episode 4 - Hiring a garden designer
Jul 17, 2018
Episode 3 - Worms
Jun 19, 2018
Episode 2 - Hiring a gardener
Jun 19, 2018
Episode 1 - Dahlias
Jun 14, 2018