Episodios

  • A scream of a podcast!
    Oct 31 2025

    Join us for Halloween garden giggles. Darren has lots of advice on putting the garden to bed for the Autumn and winter, along with making preparations for the Spring to come. Reality royalty Gemma Collins joins Mollie for a chat. She loves her garden! An inordinate amount of laughter comes as standard. Press play...if you dare...

    Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We'd love to hear from you too! If you have suggestions for topics or features you'd like to hear, or any garden related questions you have, drop us a line at thehappygardenpodcast@gmail.com. It would be fab if you could rate us and leave a review too if you've got the time, many thanks!

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    1 h y 10 m
  • A guide to composting those leaves!
    Oct 23 2025
    Join us for a cosy Autumn podcast. If you have leaves everywhere, Darren gives us his composting guide as well as talking us through saving seed for next year. Mollie meets Eco Crops, an award winning company that offer a range of woodland management and perennial SRC Willow wood crop services & products throughout the UK.Laughing and singing is a given...

    Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We'd love to hear from you too! If you have suggestions for topics or features you'd like to hear, or any garden related questions you have, drop us a line at thehappygardenpodcast@gmail.com. It would be fab if you could rate us and leave a review too if you've got the time, many thanks!

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    50 m
  • Green fingered Kevin McCloud!
    Oct 16 2025

    We speak to the fabulous Kevin McCloud as Grand Designs Live came to Birmingham and this year there was a giant garden hub. Kevin himself loves his garden and he's a dab hand at jam making!

    Mollie went to both the National Hedge laying and the National Ploughing Championships, showcasing the best in vital country skills. Hear about both this week. As always there's a few giggles and a sing song along the way...

    Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We'd love to hear from you too! If you have suggestions for topics or features you'd like to hear, or any garden related questions you have, drop us a line at thehappygardenpodcast@gmail.com. It would be fab if you could rate us and leave a review too if you've got the time, many thanks!

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    1 h y 29 m
  • Plants for arthritis, robot mowers and reviewing Genus gardening clothes...
    Oct 9 2025

    So much to cover this week! Darren reviews Genus gardening wear and Mollie talks to Sue O'Neil, founder of the company. Sue couldn't find decent gardening wear but instead of moaning, she started her own business! Buglife Paul joins us to talk about the insects we'll see in October both in the house and out in the garden. Darren looks at the pros and cons of robot lawn mowers and we have a jolly good giggle along the way. Come and join us...

    Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We'd love to hear from you too! If you have suggestions for topics or features you'd like to hear, or any garden related questions you have, drop us a line at thehappygardenpodcast@gmail.com. It would be fab if you could rate us and leave a review too if you've got the time, many thanks!

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    1 h y 29 m
  • Is it a mast year for oak trees?
    Oct 2 2025

    It's a mast podcast! A super abundance of fascinating people. Our good friend Paul Woods AKA The Street Tree joins Mollie for a chat about 2025 being a mast year, especially for our oak trees. If you don't know why trees do it, listen in, you will be blown away by Mother Nature. Darren answers a bumper crop of your gardening questions and Mollie has lots of results from last week's giant veg shed at Malvern. We meet more giant veg growers too. Get that kettle on...

    Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We'd love to hear from you too! If you have suggestions for topics or features you'd like to hear, or any garden related questions you have, drop us a line at thehappygardenpodcast@gmail.com. It would be fab if you could rate us and leave a review too if you've got the time, many thanks!

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    1 h y 34 m
  • Meet Neil Hands, a giant vegetable grower
    Sep 25 2025

    Mollie has the pleasure of chatting to Neil Hands, a world champion giant vegetable grower. We get some tips and tricks should you want to have a go at it yourself! Jane Edwards from the three counties show ground also joins us as we look ahead to the Malvern Autumn Show.

    Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We'd love to hear from you too! If you have suggestions for topics or features you'd like to hear, or any garden related questions you have, drop us a line at thehappygardenpodcast@gmail.com. It would be fab if you could rate us and leave a review too if you've got the time, many thanks!

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    40 m
  • Would you buy artificial grass?
    Sep 18 2025

    A really interesting episode this week - as always! We meet Adam who sells artificial grass. Many people hate the stuff, many people love it. We talk through some of the pros and cons. Darren brings us a bulb special, it's a great time to be planting them for spring colour. Mollie meets Leigh from the Bedworth seed swap. Oh and there's a great get together idea brewing...

    Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We'd love to hear from you too! If you have suggestions for topics or features you'd like to hear, or any garden related questions you have, drop us a line at thehappygardenpodcast@gmail.com. It would be fab if you could rate us and leave a review too if you've got the time, many thanks!

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    1 h y 8 m
  • The terrible 2's!
    Sep 11 2025

    We forgot to celebrate last week, so here is to another year of hilarious horticultural podcasting! Buglife Paul joins us to talk about the abundance of wasps this year and the onward march of the Asian hornet. Another chat with Pickling Paul, this time about his cucumbers. Listener Dave asks about mood lifters and Darren talks us through how plants can help through sight, smell, touch and taste. Come and join us!

    Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We'd love to hear from you too! If you have suggestions for topics or features you'd like to hear, or any garden related questions you have, drop us a line at thehappygardenpodcast@gmail.com. It would be fab if you could rate us and leave a review too if you've got the time, many thanks!

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    1 h y 4 m