Gardening Off-Grid with Steve Edney and Lou Dowle

In this episode, we find out how Steve Edney and Lou Dowle have created a stunning 3-acre garden-nursery that operates off the beaten track and entirely without mains services. The plant-loving partners share insights into how they garden off-grid and cultivate a wide variety of plants for sale as bare-rooted plants. Also in this episode, Julia describes how to grow your own ginger from supermarket-bought rhizomes, and Dan extols the virtues of Traditional Garden Growers, an innovative range of mulches and plant foods made principally from wool and straw. We round off with a list of jobs you can do in your garden over the next fortnight, and a reminder that the next Plant Fairs Roadshow event takes place at the Horniman Museum on Saturday, 4th April, 2026.

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