Master My Garden Podcast
Master My Garden podcast with John Jones. The gardening podcast that helps you master your own garden. With new episodes weekly packed full of gardening tips, how to garden guides, interviews with gardening experts on many gardening topics and just about anything that will help you in your garden whether you are a new or a seasoned gardener. I hope you enjoy.John
Episodes
353 episodes
EP353- What To Sow In October & Other Gardening Jobs! October Seed Sowing Shortlist
This weeks sponsors: Seeds Ireland High Quality Seeds: See link below for listener offer. https://seedsireland.ie/masterOctober gardening is a strange mix of mom...
EP352 Dr Niamh Roche Senior Projects Manager Bat Conservation Ireland: Bats In The Garden
This weeks sponsors: Better Plants See special offer here https://betterplants.ie/product/seaweed-soil-conditioner...
EP351- How To Build An Autumn Garden That Adds Interest For Years! Build A Layered Autumn Garden
This weeks sponsors: Better Plants See special offer here https://betterplants.ie/product/seaweed-soil-conditioner...
- EP350 Perennial Grow Along September 2026. What You Will Need To Grow Your Own Perennial Border.
Join The Perennial Grow Along here https://master-my-garden-perennial-grow-along.subscribepage.io/A full perennial border can loo...
- EP349- Spring-Flowering Bulbs For Maximum Colour With Minimum Effort
The fastest way to make next spring feel brighter starts right now with a bag of bulbs and a spade. We walk through spring flowering bulbs from the ground up: what to buy in September, where they shine in borders, pots, lawns and under trees, a...
EP348 What To Sow In September & Other Gardening Jobs: September Seed Sowing Essentials
This weeks sponsors: Seeds Ireland High Quality Seeds: See link below for listener offer. https://seedsireland.ie/masterSeptember is the month where a small, wel...
EP347 - Now We Know The Weather Is Changing What Can we Do About It To Garden Better? Eight Practical Ways To Make Your Garden Resilient
Grow Your Own Herb Workshop Looking Forward To Seeing You here: https://subscribepage.io/growyourownherbalgardenThe weather doesn’t just “turn” anymore, it swings...
EP346- Is Ireland’s Weather Really Changing ? Ireland Is Not Simply Wetter Or Drier, It Is More Extreme
Grow Your Own Herb Workshop Looking Forward To Seeing You here: https://subscribepage.io/growyourownherbalgardenHosepipe bans, cracked soil, and then a day of rai...
EP345 - September Herb Workshop & How To Revive Your August Garden.
Grow Your Own Herb Workshop Looking For To Seeing You here: https://subscribepage.io/growyourownherbalgardenYour garden can look “fine” in August while quietly ru...
EP344- 10 Essential Fruits For Your Kitchen Garden: Fruit Truly Worth Growing.
You can grow a lot of things in a kitchen garden, but fruit is where the difference hits hardest. A homegrown apple or strawberry can make supermarket fruit taste flat, and that’s why we pull together our 10 essential fruits for a kitchen garde...
EP343- Seed Sowing Guide For August: What To Sow In August For Autumn Harvests
This weeks sponsors: Seeds Ireland High Quality Seeds: See link below for listener offer. https://seedsireland.ie/masterAugust arrives and the seed sowing list s...
EP342- 10 Essential Vegetables For Every Kitchen Garden: The 10 Vegetables Worth Growing
If you had to cut your kitchen garden down to just ten vegetables, what would you keep and why? We take on that exact challenge and build a list that is practical, flavour-led, and realistic for busy gardeners who want maximum results for the l...
EP341- 10 Essential Herbs To Grow In Your Garden: The Essential Herb List For Flavour And Health
If your herb bed could only earn space for ten plants, which ones would actually make your dinners better week after week? We take a listener request from Ivy in Connemara and build a clear, usable shortlist of essential herbs for an Irish gard...
EP340- Rhonda Fleming Hayes Discusses Her New Book Garden For life : Practical Ways To Keep A Big Garden Enjoyable
A big garden can be a gift, right up to the day it starts to feel like a second job. We’re joined by American garden writer Rhonda Fleming Hayes to talk about her book *Gardening for Life* and the practical reality behind a question many of us ...
EP339- Seed Sowing Guide For July: Stop Treating July Like The Finish Line
This weeks sponsors: Seeds Ireland High Quality Seeds: See link below for listener offer. https://seedsireland.ie/masterJuly is where a lot of edible gardens qui...
EP338- Carlow Garden Festival Preview With Eileen O Rourke CEO Carlow Tourism: Nine Days Of Garden Talks Across Carlow
Carlow Garden Festival is back better than ever in 2026 with an amazing line up of speakers: a pick-and-mix week where you can build your own perfect gardening break. We’re joined by Eileen O’Rourke, CEO of Carlow Tourism, to walk through the p...
EP337- Online Garden Consultations That Get You Unstuck
June 2026 consultations available to book here https://mastermygarden.com/consultation/You can spend months staring at your garden and still not know what to do first, es...
EP336- One Problem Three Solutions: Why Seeds Fail After Germination.
This weeks sponsor: Crann From Probio Carbon https://www.probiocarbon.ieYour seeds are not “mysteriously bad” overnight. When carrots, peas, and lettuce fail...
EP335- When The Rain Ruins The Roses. How To Save Your Summer Flowers.
This weeks sponsor: Crann From Probio Carbon https://www.probiocarbon.ieRain that never seems to end, sunshine that vanishes in minutes, and wind that flatte...
- EP334 Rethink Conifers In The Garden & Bloom Review: 10 great conifers.
This weeks sponsor: Crann From Probio Carbon https://www.probiocarbon.ieConifers have spent years stuck in the “dated garden” box, but we’re starting to see ...
EP333- Buds & Blossoms Laois Garden Festival Preview : A Weekend For Garden Lovers
A good garden festival should leave you inspired, better informed, and itching to get back into your own patch and Buds and Blossoms in County Laois aims to do exactly that. We’re right in the heart of garden festival season, so we record this ...
- EP332 Seed Sowing Guide for June: June Sowing Made Simple
This weeks sponsors: Seeds Ireland High Quality Seeds: See link below for listener offer. https://seedsireland.ie/masterJune is where gardeners quietly win the y...
- EP331 Slugs & Snails & How To Combat In The Garden ? Slugproof Your Seedlings
This weeks sponsor: Crann From Probio Carbon https://www.probiocarbon.ieSlugs and snails can turn a thriving spring garden into a patchwork of chewed seedlin...