Welcome to the Dig It Down Under Gardening Podcast

Dig It Down Under  is a podcast series of 24 audio episodes that feature a wide range of fascinating garden topics.  Riley Jordan hosts the show and intertwines interviews and feature segments with her personal garden stories which include the exploits of ‘The Bloke’ and the ongoing saga of the veggie patch.

Feature stories include:

Interviews:

• John Arnott from the Cranbourne Royal Botanic Gardens
• Interview with Heino Lepp about Australian Native Fungi and the Fungi Map Project
• Edna Walling : Landscape gardener and Queen of Green. Interview with Sara Hardy, author of ‘The Unusual life of Edna Walling’.
• Fantasy Gardening : Tree Shaping with Becky from Pooktre.
• Gardening in Bushfire Zones – Interview with Dr Kevin Tolhurst
• Kerry Dawborn from the community harvest project

Featured Gardens:

• Herronswood (Classified by National Trust)
• Belura House
• Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden,
• Pirianda Gardens
• The Melbourne International Flower and Garden show

Featured Ornamental Plants

• Sheoaks
• Voodoo Lily
• Geraniums
• Herbs to ‘dye’  for – Henna and Indigo
• Weird & Spooky plants -  Gympie Gympie and Colletia.
• Day Lilies – more than meets the eye.
• Helleborus -   Heirloom favourite back in fashion

Featured Edible Plants

• Growing Tomatoes – Bumper Bonza Special.
• Strawberries
• Corainder
• Raspberries
• Saffron Crocus – Exploring herbal gold
• Edible Chrysanthemum – Fragrant greens

Techniques:

• No Dig Gardening
• Air Layering
• The Veggie Patch Report (monthly techniques)

Garden History

• Nobelius – Nurseryman to a nation & Puffing Billy; the Garden connection.
• Romancing the Rhododendron – Joseph Hooker – The Indiana Jones of plant hunting.
• Vanilla Beans – Deep in the jungle

Come with Riley as she takes trips to beautiful gardens, feature famous gardeners through history, interview interesting green thumbs and give you the lowdown on the her cunning plan for next seasons vegetable patch.

In her shows, she confess her gardening secrets with tips and tricks from years of years careful study and she shares the results of what she learned from “why the @#$#@& thing wouldn’t grow”.  Listen to each audio episode on your computer or download to your mp3 player!! It’s Free.

How to use this site:

Show notes and podcast:

Simply click on any Episode link in the right hand column to access audio and show notes.

There is a new episode every month . You can either download the MP3 file or stream it from your computer. You can download all of the previous episodes if you wish as well. If your computer is on dial-up you might have to walk away for a while to let the episode is load – they are around 50 MB each. You can also subscribe to the pod cast on iTunes, Yahoo and all of the usual subscription services.

The show notes have all the added information and links that are referred to in the audio show.

The Dig It Down Under community :

Regular listeners of the broadcast, often subscribe to become members of the Dig It Down Under community. Benefits include free downloads, informative newsletter & member only activities. Click here to register.

The Veggie Patch Page :

Every episode of Dig It Down Under, features the Veggie Patch report as Riley has been a long time scheming, growing and eating. Riley is very interested in all of the various disciplines for growing vegetables and is a big fan of heirloom varieties. This page is dedicated to the progress in the Dig It Down Under vegetable patch as well as various other productive patches. Simply click on the Vegetable Garden link on the top right hand corner of this site or click here.

Garden Traveler :

This page is dedicated to beautiful photos of wonderful gardens, landscapes, garden shows, forests and parks. From the formal to the informal, cottage to architectural, inspiration can be had from nature and the great Gardens of our time.   Simply click on the Garden Traveler link on the top right hand corner of this site or click here.

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