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Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Beauregard is the variety of sweet potato that is believed to be one of the best to grow in cooler climates. 

Pippa’s pal, Steph Hafferty, has a YouTube channel (@stephaniehaffertyhomesteading) and has written several books.

Steph’s co-author of ‘No-Dig Organic Home & Garden’, Charles Dowding, also has a YouTube channel (@charlesdowding1nodig) and a number of other books, courses and products under his belt. 

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Zoe has sown the following kale varieties:

• Dwarf Kale
• Cavolo Nero
• Perennial Kale 
• True Siberian Kale (from Real Seeds)

Check out the Can I Dig It Podcast's Patreon page!

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Seedy Sunday is organised by the Brighton & Hove Food Partnership.

Check out the Can I Dig It Podcast's Patreon page!

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Check out Pippa’s recent video that includes her digging up the unwanted raspberries by wielding her mattock.

Register to attend Pippa’s virtual book launch that’s taking place on 18th February at 7pm via Zoom. 

Check out the Can I Dig It Podcast's Patreon page!

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Find out about the Winter of Care and Repair challenge via Zoe’s other podcast, Check Your Thread:

• Ep. #115: Winter of Care and Repair with Jeanna Wigger

The two types of succession sowing:

1 - Sow the same crop but just one row or a small amount every 2-4 weeks. This will help you get a crop over a long period rather than them all being ready at once.

Crops that work well with this approach include: Lettuce, spring onion, radish, baby carrots

2 - Following one crop with another. For example, a spring sowing of spinach could give crop from April to May, and it always seems to flower in May/June, whatever time you sowed it. Then take out spinach and put in dwarf french beans for a second crop from the same bed.

Some early cropping options:

Early potatoes, peas, broad beans, early carrots, beetroot

Follow those with:

Winter cabbage, leeks, kale, swiss chard, late carrots, courgette

A late summer harvested crop like courgette or french beans can be followed with autumn sown broad beans, turnips, winter salads esp oriental salads, pakchoi or autumn planted garlic. 

Huw Richards has created an excellent video on succession planning:

How to Create a Planting Plan for Year-Round Food Abundance | Complete Guide

https://youtu.be/nkjeSJQWhZc?si=9YPqBwV2-PKXOMEO

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Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Watch the documentary Pippa found about the history of oca and potatoes. 

Pippa’s Top 5 Perennials:

• Taunton Deane perennial kale
• Everlasting onion
• Caucasian spinach (climbing)
• Oca
• Allium moly for salads - sweet but hot garlic flavour

Check out the Can I Dig It Podcast's Patreon page!

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Fruit Works Co-operative is a social enterprise helping people to plant and maintain fruit trees in the Bradford and Leeds area of the UK. 

Follow Grace Hills @sparkingcommunity on Instagram

Zoe will be restocking on broad beans from Real Seeds. 

If you missed it, we did a deep dive in mulch:

• Ep. #3: Mulching: How, Why & When

Check out the Can I Dig It Podcast's Patreon page!

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Pippa has been lifting her Oca and Mashua tubers. Find out more about growing Oca and Mashua.

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Pippa’s new book, ‘Permaculture Planting Designs’ is available for PRE-ORDER!!!! 
Varieties of seeds/plants mentioned:

• ‘Jack O Lantern’ for actual carving 
• Lady Godiva for naked/hulless seeds from Garden Organic
• Kakai for naked/hulless seeds from Vital Seeds
• Hablitzia / caucasian spinach seeds from Incredible Vegetables, a tastier alternative to Good King Henry

Check out the garden consultation episode (#112) of Zoe’s other podcast, Check Your Thread, with Pippa when they first got to know each other.

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Zoe found her secondhand greenhouse via the sharing app, Olio.

Zoe mixed some picante cocktails using homegrown chilis, flex!

Author and guerilla gardening advocate, Ellen Miles, wrote this excellent article on the topic for RHS.  

Ellen also wrote the book ‘Get Guerilla Gardening: A Handbook for Planting in Public Places’.

Follow the Phantom Planter on Instagram (@the_phantom_planter) or check out their website for more info. 

The Wildlife Trusts have a helpful article about how to make your own seed bombs. 

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

BBC Good Food have a great recipe for pickled pink onions, similar to the ones Pippa made and ate immediately!

The RHS explain F1 hybrid seeds so we don’t have to (again). 

Great sources for heritage and open pollinated seeds:

• The Organic Seeds Catalogue
• Real Seeds
• Vital Seeds

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Fruit Works Co-operative is a social enterprise helping people to plant and maintain fruit trees in the Bradford and Leeds area of the UK. 

Find gardening expert Huw Richards on his YouTube channel and on Instagram (@huwsgarden). 

Huw has also written a ton of books, including his latest, The Permaculture Garden. 

Try out the BBC Good Food Easy Plum Jam recipe that Zoe recently had great success with.  

Pitmaston Pine Apple variety of apples is Pippa’s favourite. 

Find your nearest local apple festival. Orchard Network provides another resource for finding your local apple day. 

Research Apple blossom and harvest dates by variety and Apple storage times by variety.

The type of apple corer that, in Pippa’s experience, works the best.

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

If you’re in the UK and have a TV licence, you can see Pippa’s appearance on Gardener’s World via iPlayer. 

Pippa uses an Excalibur dehydrator, specifically the Excalibur 9-tray Dehydrator With Timer In Black

Fermentation expert, Sam Cooper, is @chef.sam.black on Instagram. His book, The Fermentation Kitchen, is on Zoe’s Christmas list. 

‘Slow Bolt’ AKA ‘Long-Standing’ and ‘Santos’ are coriander (cilantro) varieties that are slower to go to seed. 

‘Green Aroma’ is Pippa´s favourite variety of coriander (cilantro).

Great sources for fruit trees are:

• Ashridge
• Blackmoor
• Or, your local trusted garden centre may do bareroot fruit orders.

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Check out Pippa’s YouTube video that she was FINALLY able to make about preparing homemade herbal teas.

'Recycled plastic also has a significantly lower carbon footprint than timber or metal, using less energy and water and emitting lower levels of CO2 in its production.'

Find out more about the recycled plastic available for making planters and raised beds.

Pallet collars can be found second hand on ebay or facebook marketplace.

How To Save Your Own Seed at Home by Realseeds: tons of info on harvesting, storing etc. plus a downloadable PDF seed saving guide.

Steph Hafferty has a great guide to starting a no dig bed Top 10 FAQ - How to start your No Dig Garden - Stephanie Hafferty

Can I Dig It? is made by: 

• Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
• Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app. 

Listen to the episode of Check Your Thread that featured Pippa's garden consultation:

• Ep. #112: Gardening more sustainably with Pippa Chapman

Check out Pippa's first book (The plant lovers backyard forest garden, available from most online bookstores The Plant Lover's Backyard Forest Garden | Permaculture Market )

Read through the list of seeds you can still sow this time of year (What to sow: Midsummer - Stephanie Hafferty)

The types of courgette/zucchini plants that don't need pollination include parthenocarpic varieties 'Maveric' and 'Parthenon'

For more information on 'No Dig', follow Steph Hafferty (About Me - Stephanie Hafferty or on Instagram @stephaniehafferty)

Hosted by one seasoned gardening expert and one enthusiastic and curious beginner, 'Can I dig it?' breaks gardening down to the absolute essentials. No waffle, no overwhelm, just practical steps you can squeeze into your real life, without forgetting to enjoy ourselves along the way.  

Whether your space is an allotment, a back garden, a yard, a balcony or just a sunny windowsill, we’ll get you going with your growing. Tune in for easy tips, honest experiments and plenty of laughs along the way. Can I dig it? Yes, yes you can.