BHOGGcasts

Welcome to our newest innovation for the current times: a podcast dedicated to bringing the outside world right into your home.  Venture out with one woman and her dog as she explores the organic gardening world in short, regular sound bites.

*Please note, outside recording carried out in accordance with national guidance as part of daily exercise with respect to social distancing*

BHOGGCAST34: 10/7/20 – Taking Time and Burdoned Trees

Cheerful Sunflower

 

BHOGGCAST33: 5/7/20 – Blasting Pests and Blooming Dahlias

First Dahlia in bloom

BHOGGCAST32: 25/6/20 – Potato Pests & Plume Moth

Plume Moth resting on grass

BHOGGCAST31: 15/6/20 – Welcome Rain & Rusty Garlic

Rusty garlic ready for harvest

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST30: 11/6/20 -In Between Showers & Flash Harvest

Cabbage, broad beans and cherries (before the birds get them)

BHOGGCAST29: 6/6/20 – Hungry Tomatoes & Threatening Rainclouds

Bee-loved comfrey.  Check out our comfrey tea recipe.

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST28: 2/6/20 – Reading Clouds & Cool Evenings

Dog under a mackerel sky

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST27: 2/6/20 – Summer Green & Setting Fruit

Courgette plants setting fruit

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST26: 28/5/20 – Bark Paths & Mare’s Tails

Dog making himself comfy on the fresh bark paths

 

 

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST25: 24/5/20 – Broad Bean Harvest & Atlantic Weather

 

The first broad bean harvest eaten within hours in a vegan chili – sublime!

BHOGGCAST24: 21/5/20 – Native Hedges and Taking Time Out

Flowering spindle in native hedge

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST23: 18/5/20 – First Roses & Hard Work

Amazingly scented rose bloom

 

BHOGGCAST22: 14/5/20 – Dahlias & A touch of Frost

Autumn sown Broad Beans setting pods

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST21: 8/5/20 – Bank Holiday & Promise of Summer

Homemade coffee spray to ward off slugs & snails

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST20: 6/5/20 – Evening Bird Calls & Trees Holding Their Breath

Planted out broccoli seedlings

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST19: 3/5/20 – Wet Woods & Bold Blackbirds

Wetly dripping woodlands after the rain

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST18: 2/5/20 – Disappointment & Woad

Woad in Flower covered with flying insects

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST17: 1/5/20 – Full Water Butts & Well Fed Birds

Broad Bean & Beetroot direct sown seeds now seedlings

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST16: 26/4/20 – Skinny Robin & First Asparagus

Beautiful (and delicious!) Asparagus

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST15: 22/4/20 – Striking Seedlings & Evening Sunshine

Planted out spinach looking good

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST14: 19/4/20 – Wrens & Greening Up

Broad beans sown in autumn flowering for an early crop

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST13: 17/4/20 – Rain & Quince flowers

Unfurling quince flowers

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST12: 14/4/20 – Forget Me Nots & Potato Shoots

Forget Me Nots in a wild area of the plot

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST11: 10/4/20 – Cherry Blossom & Peace

Prolific cherry blossom on the plot

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST10: 7/4/20 – Blackbird & Pink Moon

Pink Moon over Brighton Marina (Image courtesy of Nick Pope)

 

BHOGGCAST9: 4/4/20 – A Million Insects & Sunshine

Evening sun over the allotment

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST8: 2/4/20 – Willow Catkins & Bumblebees

Willow catkins attracting bumblebees

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST7: 2/4/20 – Honeybees & Rewilding

Honeybees nesting in an old recycling box

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST6: 1/4/20 – Tulips & Robins

Tightly bunched tulips waiting to burst open

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST5: 30/3/20 – Magnolias & Royal Hounds

Magnolia blooms to brighten the morning

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST4: 29/3/20- Stretching our legs & Harvesting

Delicious harvest of perpetual spinach and purple sprouting broccoli.

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST 3: 26/3/20 – Long Tailed Tits & Tadpoles

Tadpoles in the pond.  Thinking of making a pond?  Check out our ‘How To….Make A Wildlife Pond’ Guide.

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST 2: 25/3/2020 – Bumblebees & Primroses

Primroses epitomising spring

 

 

 

 

BHOGGCAST 1: 23/3/2020 – Introduction & Mystery Object

Can you identify this item found on the allotment?