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Can I Dig It? - Food Growing for Busy People

Can I Dig It? - Food Growing for Busy People

By: Zoe Edwards Pippa Chapman
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Episodes
  • What To Do with All These Apples
    Sep 11 2025

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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.

    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.

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    54 mins
  • Glut Management Tactics
    Aug 28 2025

    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.

    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.
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    57 mins
  • Mulching: How, Why & When
    Aug 5 2025

    Do you want fewer weeds, less time spent watering and healthier soil? A deep dive into mulching explains all. Plus, we discuss tactics for dealing with a variety of pests.

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    48 mins
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