The Blooming Garden
The Blooming Garden
Podcast Description
Perfect for gardening enthusiasts at any level, this podcast is your companion to cultivating success and beauty in your own backyard or flower patch. Hosted by Jane Westoby from Fuchsia Blooms Florist and The Hampshire Seed Company.
Each episode is a treasure trove of practical tips, expert advice, and insider flower farming guides designed to help you sow and grow with confidence and harvest with pride. Whether you’re dreaming of rows of neat vegetables or cutting flowers for bouquets all year round, we’ll walk you through every step.
Let’s grow together!
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Content Themes
The podcast covers a variety of horticultural topics including seed stratification, flower farming journeys, and pest management strategies, with episodes like Better Germination with Seed Stratification focusing on techniques for improving seed sowing success and Growing a Flower Farm discussing the challenges and triumphs of transitioning from personal gardening to professional flower farming. Each episode aims to empower gardeners with both knowledge and confidence in their cultivating efforts.
Perfect for gardening enthusiasts at any level, this podcast is your companion to cultivating success and beauty in your own backyard or flower patch. Hosted by Jane Westoby from Fuchsia Blooms Florist and The Hampshire Seed Company.
Each episode is a treasure trove of practical tips, expert advice, and insider flower farming guides designed to help you sow and grow with confidence and harvest with pride. Whether you’re dreaming of rows of neat vegetables or cutting flowers for bouquets all year round, we’ll walk you through every step.
Let’s grow together!
Today I’m joined by Lance Turner from Tomato Revolution (Wiltshire) — a proper tomato obsessive — and we break down what actually matters if you want strong plants and loads of fruit (not just a leafy jungle).
In this episode we cover the 8-week sowing rule, how to avoid leggy seedlings, why you should remove heat after germination, how to pot on deeper for stronger roots, what causes trusses not to set, and the feeding mistake that creates lots of leaves and hardly any tomatoes. We also talk blight — what helps, what doesn’t, and why ventilation is everything.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- When to sow tomatoes (the simple 8-week rule)
- Heat + light basics for sturdy seedlings
- Potting on deeper to build roots (and get more trusses)
- Why flowers drop / trusses don’t set (and the quick fix)
- Feeding: avoiding too much nitrogen so you get fruit
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