Keeping the garden looking good in summer can be a challenge in a hot and dry climate but Steve Wood and Deryn Thorpe from All The Dirt Podcast share tips to keep your garden thriving as the temperatures soar.
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Jeremy Thomas the Curator of Aboriculture at Kings Park and Bold Park talks trees with Steve and Deryn in this week's podcast. They discuss moving the giant boab from the Kimberley to Kings Park and techniques for looking after stressed trees.
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Aboriginal elder Dale Tilbrook talks about traditional bush tucker, using our tasty Australian ingredients to flavour our food at home and Aboriginal spirituality.
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Dr Philip Groom, author of Plant Life of Southwestern Australia, talks about the adaptations that plant have to cope with the world's most nutrient- impoverish soils, a hot dry summer, frequent fires and the animals and birds that want to eat them!
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There are over 25,000 orchid species known and many more hybrids. With just a little knowledge, orchids can be surprisingly easy to grow. Join Kaye and Jay Baylis from The Orchids Society of Western Australia as they chat everything orchids with Deryn and Steve.
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Digby Growns is Kings Park's Senior Plant Breeder. Digby, leads a small team of staff and volunteers involved in the plant breeding program. This week Deryn and Steve discuss the science behind plant breeding.
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Louise Clark is a horticulturist at Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia in the US, and provides advice on growing green roofs, expands on her favourite trees and gives us an insiders look at the many outstanding gardens in the Philadelphia region.
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Dr Josh Byrne, television gardening presenter with ABC's Gardening Australia, talks about how his love of nature and childhood spent in the garden developed into a career developing sustainable environments.
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Bob Hunter, president of the Cactus and Succulent Society of WA, talks to Steve Wood and Deryn Thorpe about succulent and cactus varieties and shares the secrets of his potting mix and cactus shadehouses.
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Horticultural therapy is using plants and gardening to promote healthy bodies and minds.
Practitioners Glenice Batchelor and Jeanette Penklis talk with Steve Wood and Deryn Thorpe about how we can use our gardens to heal.
Scientists are beginning to understand that plants have abilities that we've only ever associated with animals. They can learn, have memory and decision making capabilities.
Steve Wood and Deryn Thorpe from All The Dirt podcast discuss ways to save money in the garden like taking cuttings and making your own compost.
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It's spring and Steve and Deryn discuss what should be planted in the veggie patch now.
Listen in to find out tips for planting tomatoes, including their favourite varieties as well as how to get the most out of your, sweetcorn, zucchini, eggplant, Ceylon spinach, capsicum and chillies.
Our celebrity guest is Costa Georgiadis, a Greek-Australian landscape architect and the host of ABC's Gardening Australia.
He is passionate about living a sustainable life and speaks to Deryn and Steve about connecting plants and people by showing them how simple it is to grow food on their verge. The wide-ranging conversation reveals Costa's rich cultural life which includes his crazy funk, disco, rock, cabaret band called the More Please Orchestra and his passion for umpiring rugby.
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Natalie Woodman is one of Australia’s leading Nutritional Medicine and Gut Health Practitioner who works with clients online (internationally/nationally) and in her South Perth Clinic.
Here she speaks to Steve and Deryn about how the Gut Microbiome impacts health. Natalie discusses how a diet that targets the gut microflora can improve health and treat, and reverse, conditions like digestive disorders, weight gain, mood disorders, skin conditions, immune conditions, allergies, diabetes, high blood pressure, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Parkinson’s, MS and Alzheimer’s.
Check out her recipe for delicious and easy to make Kimchi, a naturally fermented food, that supports optimal gut health.
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Dr Bob Longmore is a former pharmacy academic and herbal medicines writer who lives with wife Maggie on an 8 acre semi-rural garden in Nannup with extensive productive, native and ornamental gardens. Steve and Deryn talk to him about medicinal herbs, smoking feral fish and growing food.
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Steve and Deryn are joined by Janine Mendel.
Janine Mendel founder of CultivArt Landscape Design discusses how to make your small garden work.
Janine believes that that 'at the end of the process, your house should look like it's been planted in the garden.'
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Steve and Deryn are joined by Mark Tucek who talks growing bush tucker plants in your backyard. Bush tucker is being embraced by chefs all around the world and the unique flavours inspire culinary creativity. Learn how to add these special varieties to your garden, most of these Tucker Bush plants are easy to grow.
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