Bobs Garden Podcast: Recent Episodes
Bobs Garden
Bobs Garden is a short, medidative, slow-podcast you can enjoy three times a week. Listen for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Tunein.
Take a trip inside the mind of a man unleashed and enjoying ten precious minutes alone in his garden.
It's free and comes out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in all weathers.
It’s 5.30AM, join me for the best part of the day. Even the trees seem more relaxed at this hour it is beautiful.
I find out who’s eating my fruit and I moan about the mess I made digging trenches. A lovely morning
I’m back on the garden which looks more like a bombsite thanks to a week with a mini excavator.
I’ve lost some seedlings because I didn’t pay close enough attention. On the other hand we have five new kittens! Miaow. Weeding today and there’s a digger coming…. Your twice weekly visit to a Cotswold garden is here. Ten minutes, zone out. #slowpodcast
Tonight I do the first shoutouts thank you so much to everyone who listens I hope you continue to tolerate my ramblings. We spot deer and I talk more mowing whilst on a wander round the field with a Baileys.
A lovely morning on the allotment with the ducks the chickens and masses and masses of growth. One of our “kittens” who isn’t really a kitten anymore is having babies of her own. The sun is out and it’s blue skies. Good morning.
The weather has warmed up and everything green is growing ridiculously quickly. A quick recap this Thursday morning and we're off the races with season 3 of the podcast!
It’s the first morning at the new chicken shed. The hens are discombobulated and so am I. You can see the build here instagram.com/bobsdotgarden. Please go have a look and subscribe. ❤️
I love logging. The process of felling, chopping and splitting your logs for your fire is one I find extremely cathartic! Join me this morning in the logshed!
Good morning! Back for season 3, so full of potential. Will there be Purple Sprouting? Will there be sprouts at all! Chickens back in full effect!
DEFRA have imposed chicken lockdown again thanks to the bird flu outbreak. It was windy last night and I lost some glass in the greenhouse. Coffee this morning and I’m still in the yellow sleeping bag.
We’ve got a cockerel. Hello it has been a while, a friend offered me his cockerel and I thought why not. Cockadoodledoo!
This is from last week when for about 24 hours the garden morphed into the Kalahari. Very hot indeed. Lovely!
GOOD EVENING. An evening stroll around the house tonight, not brought you much evening content of late but it’s a lovely time to be out after dusk after such a hot day. I go off on a traditional rant. It’s back to basics. Wade in.
Morning everyone, listen to the grasshoppers making a racket or are the crickets? I’m in the meadow drinking a coffee out of my mug and taking you for a walk. Wake up!
An abnormally lively podcast. Take pleasure listening to the hens peck away at their feeder and find out how I manage a broody bird. Mid-podcast I find out we have red mite in the coop and I plan a trip to see the chicken experts.
Obviously I also have a moan, today about my health. Enjoy!
I've had three days away from the garden and I've come back to what feels like a jungle.
I’m up at half five and I’m in the Timber shed, which has been getting a clear out.
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This morning I ramble on about bonfires and take a quick look in the shed we emptied yesterday. Chickens get fed and there is a lot of birdsong.
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A school mum friend donates me some exciting fruit and veg. Everythings going really green and getting really big. My second sowing of seedlings are germinating.
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I sow seeds in every available space in the greenhouse to try and catch up following the loss of all my previous seedlings.
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Alas I have lost another chicken on Bobs Garden. I have also lost all of this years recently sprouted seedlings. Lets diplomatically call this a miscommunication between myself and Mrs Bobs Garden.
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The weather has warmed up and Bobs Garden returns. I talk about the greenhouse, storm damage, how the chickens are coping with their own lockdown, the egg business and ferrets.
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We've started selling our eggs round the village. This is great news and may offset the cost of these birds somewhat. I try not to forget I've got eggs in my pockets.
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I wrap my tree fern after the first frost, not a great time to do it. A day late and a dollar short as usual.
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Love getting my hands mucky in the mornings. I ramble on about how I once grew £3 carrots and talk through why I've built 8 no-dig beds for this years vegetables and flowers.
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Find out how the hedge has performed over the summer - hint, not great - and I walk round the garden to start yet another fire.
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It's great to be back! Lots going on, some traditional allotmenteering and the weather is beeeautiful.
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It’s the end of season one! Thanks for lending me your ears. I return home from holiday to find a jungle, the dog does a poo and a pigeon scares the life out of me. It’s all happening.
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I recount a local story about being harassed by a seal whilst walking the dog on the beach.
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A lovely podcast from my favourite place in the country. Now I’m off for a swim.
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After the introduction of new chickens I walk over for the first morning !
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Bit of a ramble about chickens and a look back at where I thought I’d be compared to where I actually am.
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Raised beds, no dig and it’s 30 degrees!
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I discover the intricacies of adding more chickens to your brood!
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After a short hiatus Bobs Garden returns with aplomb! Here’s what you missed.
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A really rambling one this evening. Round a campfire I discuss flowers vs veg and try to ascertain how much each one of my carrots cost. Hint, I think it’s about three quid.
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Funny how we’ve spent the last two years cooped up together and now everyone in the uk wants to go camping, cooping themselves up in a smaller space!
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The first proper offsite podcast, clifftop in Pembrokeshire!
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I invite you to my allotment for a beer and talk more about lockdown. It starts to rain but I don’t mind.
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I try to buy some sprinklers and talk about my oak trees some more.
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I talk strawberries, hit the polytunnel and rant about lockdown.
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Chickens this morning and I talk about my oak trees. They’re doing great!
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I walk round the lower field today to visit the river which is in flood and take a look at the paths mown through the lawn.
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I plant out the sprouts and feel the sun on my back. Goats and another dog on the horizon!
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It’s lashing it down for once and I hide in the poly tunnel.
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I basically walk round the allotment, rambling on in the rain. Covering what’s gone on in the last few days.
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The chicken man tries to talk me into ducks and I ponder a pond.
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It’s gone cold and the hens put themselves to bed early. I’m covering up my beans and drinking a low alcohol beer. Help!
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I have some Bobs Garden merch! Email your real address to bobs.garden@bobs.garden and I will put some stuff in the post to you. I talk about hoovering and vaccine passports.
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We’re all just animals at the end of the day. I talk about Instagram and it’s perils plus I look back over the podcast as we approach 50 episodes!
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I have a new gate. This is genuinely compelling podcasting isn’t it. I build a new bed and buy compost.
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I go on yet again about no dig, talk compost, polytunnels, weedkiller and chickens.
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It’s very peaceful this evening. There will be a frost. This allotment is my curry house!
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I set up some cold frames in the name of no dig and plant lettuce and salad leaves.
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I plant some french beans and contemplate if I can tackle the weeds using the No Dig method.
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A very slow podcast this morning even by my standards. I’m amongst the kale in my pyjamas and I’m contemplating yesterday’s work.
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Glorious morning! Polytunnel and weeding talk!!
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Successful day in the Poly and I get FOUR eggs from the chickens. Tomorrow it’s spuds and I’ll have a bonfire.
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I’m back from the first pub visit of 2020, four pints deep. I have an egg disaster.
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Woodpigeons, re wilding and lawn mower talk.
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I ponder some of the lessons learned so far on the allotment and plant up some cardoons , beans and purple sprouting broccoli!
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I dish out some dubious advice on growing raspberries and find out what my fruit trees are. It’s frosty.
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I plan to spend a full day on the allotment and I open my seed delivery! The weeds are a problem now so I will be applying glyphosphate liberally.
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On a walk with the dog I ponder whether I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. It’s sunsets and there are bats about.
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Gin is a con for the most part. I have a rotten cold so tune in to hear me sniffling in high definition and talking about plants, prison and rotovation.
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I’ve planted 160 and I’ve still 90 left! This podcast is from the garden.
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A nighttime journey around the allotment with my torch.
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I’m planting the hedge on my garden this morning, so no official Bobs Garden action but I do tell you about a chicken mistake I made yesterday!
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I search the outbuildings for a suitable chitter and then I chit the spuds. No eggs yet from the chickens, but it is a beautiful day.
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I open a box of seeds, it’s not quite what I thought. I explain my hedge dilemma.
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Up early and weeding! My seeds ought to arrive today.
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An evening on the allotment. I open a beer and let the chickens loose for a walk and a peck about.
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The sun is out it’s a glorious morning. Chickens refuse to produce eggs yet and I talk hawthorn hedges!
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I reveal the planting list for March and talk Cardoons. It’s even windier than yesterday.
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Windy af outside. I’m in the polytunnel on my knees in the muck, weeding. Last weeks seeds have begun to germinate and I talk about my sub-par sprinkler system. This truly is a thrilling series.
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Surprise to find the chickens out and about already when I got to the allotment this morning. Gorgeous weather, no jobs.
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It’s done, February’s planting is complete and I find a very green caterpillar eating my kale.
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Morning! I complete the Beech hedge pruning for the year and you get a chicken update.
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Out of breath after shovelling loads of earth about and weeding. I prepare to plant the remainder of last months seeds and wax lyrical about bad fats.
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It’s March so is it spring now? Schools go back next week, holy heck. I wander past the onions and the garlic then head into the tunnel.
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It’s frosty. We wake the chickens up and get them out of their house for an introduction. I clatter about with the bins half way through this one so perhaps don’t use your headphones!
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A short podcast even by Bobs Garden standards. Chicken Town is now population; 8.
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It’s the last day that the allotment will be chicken-free. I drink a coffee.
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I plant some things into trays and then decide I should put the rest straight into the tunnel. Also I witter on about runner beans.
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Real rambler this evening, I navel gaze in the poly tunnel and threaten to actually plant the seeds I bought.
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Today I’m collecting molehills in the absence of compost.
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Chicken town is complete! I give a guided tour and then head into the poly tunnel with the dog to escape the rain. I ramble on about lettuce.
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So close to the completion of Chicken Town now. I talk costs and allotment mindset.
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I head to the allotment with an iPhone microphone full of water and ramble on about February’s planting plan. Two types of sprout!
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No jobs today. I talk floods, squirrels and rats. Chicken run still not complete.
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The birds go to bed. The chicken run nears completion and I find a good looking planting plan for the years vegetables.
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A tour of the new chicken house.
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It’s -2C. I prune the Dogwood and light a fire.
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Middle aged man sniffles into an iPhone walking round his allotment. Construction of the chicken run has begun.
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Snow on the allotment today and the tale of Bill Barclay, Gentleman of The Road.
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It’s cold again and we meet the dog.
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Squirrels and walnuts and mistletoe.
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First morning on the allotment. A fire, I drink tea and do a tour.
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