Grow Your Own at Home
Alan Titchmarsh veg shows the nation how easy it is to grow your own fruit and
HOL MON 25 May, 8.30pm (Wales, Thu, 10.45pm) ITV Factual
Alan Titchmarsh reunites (remotely) with his Love Your Garden team for this new three-part series hosted from his home! Filmed with the help of his wife Alison, Alan reveals how to grow your own food, no matter how much – or little – space you may have.
GROW YOUR OWN AT HOME
WITH ALAN TITCHMARSH
Holiday Mon, 8.30pm (Wales, Thu, 10.45pm) ITV Factual
Q What can you reveal about your new three-part show? A s we can’t film Love Your Garden at the moment, ITV have come up with this idea for a gardening show that takes into account lockdown. It’s about growing your own at home, and it’s for every level of gardener and every type of space. Q Can you reveal what you’ll be teaching us to grow? A It’s going to be food that anyone can grow – including those who haven’t got a garden. There’s strawberries in pots and tomatoes in grow bags. I will also be sowing radishes, raspberries, lettuces, and planting beans and peas. Q What are your top tips for success? A Don’t put tomatoes out until the end of May because they don’t like the cold. Sow carrots very thinly, and with lettuces, don’t sow too many – unless you’re a family of rabbits! Q Where and how are you filming? A I’m on the veg patch in my garden and my wife Alison is wielding the camera! We do some things using the tripod, but for most of filming Alison is carrying it. She has been amazing! Q Have you had any problems filming? A I thought the first day might be terrible – it was really windy and things moved
about and blew over! Afterwards Alison and I thought, if we can do it under those circumstances, we can do it under any! We were absolutely shattered and went to bed with aching backs, but buoyed by the feedback from ITV. Q Will Love Your Garden’s David Domoney, Katie Rushworth and Frances Tophill be joining you remotely?
A Oh, yes! We’ve been having meetings on Zoom and it’s like a reunion because it’s the first time we’ve met in ages! They’ll have their families filming them from their homes, too. We’re all quite enjoying it! We want to show that anyone can grow fruit and veg. I hope people watch this and think, ‘I could grow something to eat!’