I Accidentally Left My Sweetpeas Out Overnight, Bed Prep Continues & Why Every Stem Has To Make A Profit

About this episode

Lydia discusses her recent gardening activities, including challenges with pests and the importance of profitability in flower growing.

Hello, welcome to Tuesday 7 April 2026. I hope you had a lovely Easter weekend. I spent the weekend on the field and was mostly doing battle with nettles, clearing beds and making space for all the annual seedlings rapidly filling up my greenhouse. I can't wait to get them out onto the plot and growing away. The rats continue to test my patience: they've had a go at my final remaining batch of crated tulips which I finally planted in the ground. It's very unfair and I hope they all have...

People in this episode

Host: Lydia Watson

Topics covered

• flower growing
• sweetpeas
• bed preparation
• gardening challenges
• profitability in farming

Keywords

• sweetpeas
• gardening
• tulips
• nettles
• annual seedlings
• profit
• flower farming

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