Skinny Jean Gardener Podcast

Lee heads to Birmingham to visit Glee, and garden industry show to see what you should be getting your hands on for this summer in the garden as a family. Want to join the School Gardening Success Plan? visit https://schoolgardeningsuccess.co.uk

In this weeks Bitesize episode Dave McPartlin from BBC Teach gives us his Top Tips for gardening with the school Join me this July at the Theatre https://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/event/the-skinny-jean-gardener-gardening-entertainment-show/

With it being Lee's daughters 7th Birthday, he decides to give you his top ideas for creating a kids garden party! Joined by Olive on the podcast to review gardening parties for kids! Want to join Lee at the Theatre? https://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/event/the-skinny-jean-gardener-gardening-entertainment-show/#book

After a week in Eden Project, Lee Reviews this attraction in Cornwall and answers whether you should take the family to Eden Project this year? As part of the 2022 May Half Term Lee took his family to Eden Project in Cornwall as he performed 10 Gardening Entertainment Shows. While there he saw a lot of what Eden had to offer, and so if you are thinking about whether you should visit, this podcast...

Lee Heads to The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 to tell you what his take home from the show was, that you could create in your family garden. He also shares his favourite moment and garden at the show, and a garden you really shouldn't miss if you are heading to the show this year. Want to watch Lee in his first theatre show? Get your tickets now at https://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/event/the-skinny...

15 Schools, One Week, Over 3000 pupils. Lee is back on the road giving gardening talks and support. In this exclusive to the podcast episode, Lee goes through his findings from a week on the road visiting primary schools and showing children how they can create their own show garden in 2022 The prize for this years first Colchester Garden Festival show gardens is a School Gardening Success Plan! G...

On this podcast we have an incredible Head Teacher, Dave Mcpartlin from BBC Bitesize and Britains Got Talent, where we talk about everything from Talent Shows, Teachers and pupils, creating the Happiest School in Britain and how he gets gardening into schools and thinks we could do more! Plus we have regular forest school genius Mr Stuart Jackson join us to talk about what he's been doing at his s...

This week on the podcast we've got the audio from The Shropshire Primary School Outdoor Conference by The Marches Academy Trust In this talk Lee explains how he got into gardening at what he found when travelling the country to primary schools across the UK If you would like to get involved with the School Gardening Success Plan then please visit https://schoolgardeningsuccess.co.uk To find out mo...

This week my 6 year old daughter Olive takes to the mic to talk about what we have been doing in our small garden. Each month she'll be joining us to discuss what she has been up to at school and in the garden and what plants we have been growing too! She has total creative control, so who knows where the conversation will go, I just turn on the mic, walk out of the room and come back to edit late...

In this Bitesize episode we talk to Stuart Jackson, Forest School Teacher about a brilliant idea to get a School Show garden competition started, giving you a inexpensive way to bring it into school this year. This episode is sponsored by The School Gardening Success Plan, bringing a surefire way to get your class gardening this year and beyond. Find out more at https://www.schoolgardeningsuccess....

This week on the podcast is an EXCLUSIVE listen of my chat on stage at Ideal Home Show 2022 with Bryn Lucus. Having Bryn asking all the questions Brough a whole new dynamic to this discussion, throwing in new ideas from the How to Get Kids gardening available right now on https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/shop Also BIG NEWS This podcast is going LIVE on stage at The Mercury Theatre, Colchester. Wit...

Thats right in this episode you can WIN £700+ worth of gardening prizes for your school for entering this competition before 25th May 2022 You can Win a School Gardening Success Plan that supports your school in GYO and Wildlife throughout the entire year with Teacher Support https://schoolgardeningsuccess.co.uk PLUS a National Garden Gift Voucher worth £200! All by entering this competition https...

If you are wondering how to get your class gardening this year then this is the episode for you. We have our friend Mr Stuart Jackson, forest school teacher join us for this full length episode of the all ne w Teacher Parent Podcast discussing how he is getting on with the School Gardening Success Plan, available right here.. https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/schoolsuccess Plus an amazing idea that...

Being one of the first gardening podcasts in the UK, in this final part of the chat Richard discusses why he podcasts and how it started This podcast is sponsored by The School Gardening Success Plan, giving 1 million children a space to learn to GYO and care for Wildlife by 2025 find out more at https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/schoolsuccess OR help keep the podcast going and flowing by visiting...

Chickens, Goats and allotment stories. What really happens down at the allotment? richard Suggett fro The Veg Grower Podcast tells all! This podcast is sponsored by The School Gardening Success Plan, giving 1 million children a space to learn to GYO and care for Wildlife by 2025 find out more at https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/schoolsuccess OR help keep the podcast going and flowing by visiting h...

In the first of our 3 part chat, richard Suggett discusses how the world of gardening first started for him, and whether gardening can really help with mental health. This podcast is sponsored by The School Gardening Success Plan, giving 1 million children a space to learn to GYO and care for Wildlife by 2025 find out more at https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/schoolsuccess OR help keep the podcast...

On the podcast this week, We have a garden the size of a show cubicle, Lisa calls in to talk about Peat compost and Suggett returns to tell us what he has planned this year with peat-free compost. This podcast is REALLY sponsored by The School Gardening Success Plan, giving 1 million children a space to learn to GYO and care for Wildlife by 2025 find out more at https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/sc...

The Phone In returns to the show with all the best callers and a New star to the gardening world joins us, but he's no stranger to the show! This podcast is sponsored by The School Gardening Success Plan, bringing gardening to schools throughout the UK. Find out more here.. https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/schoolsuccess and join us in the shop at https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/shop to support th...

How did two brothers, with only one year of gardening experience end up in Japan designing a garden? In this final episode of this conversation Lee and Dale discuss how they ended up in Japan after just one year of gardening, and what their experience of being away was. Plus what happened to the Skinny Jean Gardeners Shop, The hight of "fame" and how it all come crashing down. Thank you to The Sch...

The conversation continues as Lee and Dale discuss what Gardening TV is really like. In this part 2/3 we look behind the lease of gardening TV as Lee and Dale talk about BBC Blue Peter, How Dale can never watch Sunday Brunch again and what was it like teaching Alan Titchmarsh how to garden. Thank you to The School Gardening Success Plan for supporting the podcast. If you are a teacher and would li...

This week the other Skinny Jean Gardener Dale, joins us on the show as we discuss the origin stories of how it all started. In this episode we talk about our first allotments, mistakes that were made and how Jimmy Doherty spotted two brothers to join him on his farm. Over the next few weeks you'll hear the unedited story, with behind the scenes chat and unheard stories from how it all began. Thank...

New Year, New Podcast as Lee kicks off the year with New Year Gardening Resolutions PLUS much more. This week Lee talks about his New Year resolutions where he looks at his new garden and how he looks to work on it much with with his daughter Olive after a year not connecting in 2021, and staying off the phone. How do you keep screen time to a minimum? Also this week, Lee discusses his return to T...

Singing, Quizing, VR Gardening and a Squirrel's Christmas Getaway! Its all her in The Christmas Special! In this weeks Christmas Special Lee talks about what came out of the Director General of The RHS Role and whether he really will be taking over the Gardening World! We look at an absolute game changer in gardening technology that will be coming in 2022 that he is very excited about, and you pro...

In this weeks BONUS episode of the podcast, Lee takes your questions on why he is becoming Director General of The RHS in June 2022. Lee talks about his goals of doubling membership within 3 years, speaking to the 30 million gardeners in the UK and bringing in a "TikTok" generation that is yet to experience The RHS. He also discuss's plan to open 5 NEW Mini RHS gardens to make the organisation mor...

Lee takes to the mic for the last time this year to discuss the future of the podcast and becoming RHS Director General With phone calls from Stuart Jackson, Richard Suggett and Ian Beddoes, theres plenty of laughs and garden chat amongst the final phone in of the year! Having been the number one phone in garden show in the world, Lee has decided to hang up the phone for this year, BUT he will ret...