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Teas, tinctures, poultices and all things apothecary. This month, the Two Peas enthusiastically launch into the garden as a healer.  Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot Sessions http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/Shift_of_Currents

It’s a new year and Trevor and Michelle are brimming with new ideas and inspiration. Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot Sessions http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/Shift_of_Currents

The pandemic seems to have created more gardeners than ever before. Trevor and Michelle explore how the younger generation have embraced urban gardening and where permaculture principles fit into this model. Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot Sessions http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/Shift_of_Currents

October is the month where we hear how Trevor has gone potty over pots. A long wet winter has inspired his household to pot up, pot out and just generally pot around with pots to create an abundance of greenery inside and out.  The Two Peas also ponder on the importance of learning to let […]

Spring usually sees us racing out to the garden, girding our loins and working with all the sunlight hours we have been craving during Winter,but Trevor wants us to stop. Stop , take time and enjoy – you will get as much done racing around as you will taking your time – and not pull […]

Be it Zen or zany all gardens are here to feed our souls. This month Trevor and Michelle discuss the nature of a Zen garden, Trevor even accepts this as a good use of water, and how they can be a wonderful use of courtyard spaces.  While we feed out souls Trevor looms at feeding the […]

If you ask Trevor there are only two vegetables that you really need to live on, find out what they are and how to grow them. Michelle will share the best way to cook them. The Two Peas will also explore plants of the month, native and introduced. Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot […]

It’s NAIDOC week and Trevor and Michelle look at the Indigenous seasons; seasons which are strongly linked to areas rather than a calendar and are a brilliant guide to the importance of understanding your own region to improve your own gardening skills. They also question the monotony of monoculture and plot rotation. Planting a broad […]

The Moon in June. What does the moon have to do with gardening?  Trevor and Michelle delve into a rather different aspect of gardening this month. Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot Sessions http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/Shift_of_Currents

Sustainable Futures? What does this really mean and how does gardening play a productive part in ensuring that we see sustainability as something we, not only need to look at for future survival economically but emotionally. Trevor and Michelle delve into their favourite aspect of gardening- how it’s the way to a sustainable future.   […]

Trevor and Michelle talk about the first signs of Autumn in the garden, and preparation for winter. — Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot Sessions http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/Shift_of_Currents

This month Trevor and Michelle talk about their love of spiders, soil and seeds for Autumn. Michelle is a complete convert to electrical tools that make gardening easier but Trevor is still a stalwart for only the traditional tools of olde times.  — Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot Sessions http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/Shift_of_Currents

Trevor and Michelle enter the 2022 new year with a healthy mix of excitement and trepidation. This month’s podcast revisits the importance of when to plant and how, now is the time to gird your loins for a decent winter harvest.  This year also heralds a new foray into gardening as both Michelle and Trevor […]

Gardening for the Young and the Young at Heart This month Trevor and Michelle hark back to the days of childhood and reignite the childhood wonder of nature. The love of gardens, and a desire to preserve the planet, begins when we are tiny and first start to explore the adventures that gardens offer. Sit […]

Never underestimate the importance of sitting and enjoying the fruits of your labour.  This month Trevor and Michelle are inspired by the idea that, if at first you don’t succeed, plant, dig and plant again.  Just like the seasons, gardeners opportunities to create and learn from past successes or failures will cycle around again, and […]

When are there too many statues in the garden? Has Trevor uncovered Michelle’s snobbery about the non living garden ornament or is there a line that needs to be drawn in the sand when it comes to the garden decorative? Hold on to your garden gnomes and see which side of the fence you sit […]

Trevor and Michelle wax’ floralical’ this month on the beauty and benefits of flowers. A budding new chapter in gardening for the Two Peas and proving the garden will always provide us with new challenges and new loves.  Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot Sessions

Trevor and Michelle can barely “container “ themselves with excitement. This month’s podcast not only features their first official special guests, but also highlights how containers and pots were a fantastic start for this couple’s gardening journey. One that has resulted in a magnificent backyard showing how, imagination and hard work can transform rubble and […]

The two peas in a podcast discuss sweet peas. It wouldn’t be March if we weren’t planning sweet pea plantings. Trevor and Michelle are diversifying into the more floral aspects of gardening and didn’t realise quite how many flowers they classed as their ‘favourites’.   Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot Sessions

What do shed’s zucchinis and acres of lucerne have in common? Well, no true gardener worth their weight in loam can do without them. Trevor has cleaned out his shed for the first time in ten years and admits that a spade is not merely a spade-it is just a small part of any true […]

‘Lucerne’ up fellow gardeners because 2021 is here and Trevor and Michelle are ready to regale you with tales green and fresh.’ Lettuce’  tell you about the summer crops we have been harvesting, who knew there were so many shades of lettuce available for the green enthusiast not to mention how the humble carrot can […]

This month we are all ears about corn. The only vegetable that could possibly drag Trevor away from his beloved beans is corn, corn and more corn. There are few plants that grow as fast, as luscious and feel as decadent to harvest as corn- except perhaps pumpkins?  Trevor will help you grow the best […]

Growing food for the heart and the soul. Planting your own Mediterranean garden will not only go a long way to improving your physical health but feed your emotional health as well. As much as they passionately love gardening the Two Peas passionately believe in growing for health. What better way to eat your Mediterranean […]

Trying to keep Spring planting to one podcast is a challenging feat, but Trevor and Michelle have managed to squeeze lots of information and enthusiasm into this month’s Spring planting adventure. They even manage to throw in a few bits about flowers! Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot Sessions

Trevor gets down to the true nitty gritty of brilliant gardening-creating compost. No rubbish ! He explains how you can convert the most incredible array of greens and browns and, maybe a little colour, just for glam, into viable rich and luscious soil that will have your plants leaping from the ground with sheer green joy. […]

Trevor has allowed his favourite old chook, Michelle, to be chatting about chooks so she is ‘egg’ceptionally ‘egg’cited this podcast. Not just for eggs, these amazing creatures are an ‘egg’cellent addition to any productive garden. If chooks are not your thing then let Michelle convince you how owning ducks is the road to quacky happiness.  Failing that Trevor […]

Micro on size but not micro on taste and nutrition. Move over Microsoft, there is a new giant in town- microgreens. Trevor waxes lyrical about the benefits of fresh micro greens and how anyone, anywhere, with any space can grow these amazing greens. However, it is still Winter and now is also the time to […]

Imagine you could soon be plonking a few of your own home-grown strawberries in a flute of champagne, harvesting an embarrassment of asparagus and enjoying the inspiration of what autumn planning can do for your planting. Trevor and Michelle lockdown the decadence of autumn plantings in a podcast that reminds us social distancing doesn’t have […]

Trevor the keen ‘bean’ talks peas and beans with Michelle and , ahhhhhh, the joy that can be found in the Autumn garden. While we are a little more house bound than usual the garden is more of an oasis than it ever was, so its the perfect time to just plant now! Then, sit back […]

Patience. A gardens greatest lesson. Trevor explains, with great patience to Michelle, how that autumn plantings will not only give you abundance, but teach you the gentle of patience. A skill we can transfer to all areas of our lives. Does Michelle sit still long enough to listen? Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot […]

Better planning, better planting and a better understanding of the seasons means, even in the hottest weather, you can have a garden that brings joys and abundance. Trevor and Michelle make this abundantly clear in this months podcast when they wax lyrical on the joys of changing your thinking and growing in the dry. Music; […]

‘Tis the Season to be Salad Savvy This month’s podcast has Trevor on a mission to prove that salads can be as macho as meat and Michelle shares her favorite garden delights for the warmer months. There are no excuses to not bask in the glory of all that is green!  Music; Shift of Currents […]

Two Peas in a Podcast Meat or Three Veg? Are humans designed for meat eating?  Or is meat merely the Neanderthal designer food that Modern Humans can’t let go of? Trevor and Michelle explore this idea, and more, in a special two-part podcast that will have you reconsidering what you eat, and why. Music; Shift […]

What can the future of Urban Gawler look like? Trevor gets his “ Foschini’ on and ponders the possibilities for creating a Gawler landscape that will invite more cycling and strolling, Michelle, as always, is enthusiastically along for the ride. Music; Shift of Currents by Blue Dot Sessions http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/Shift_of_Currents

You say potato I say potatoe but, one thing is certain, Trevor says plant them- lots of them- and in this podcast he tells Michelle how to make sure that the soil is perfect for ensuring a huge yield as well as providing an excellent environment for growing subsequent vegetables. Music; Shift of Currents by […]

Todays’ podcast will enlighten you on the benefits and ease with which you can grow a plethora of herbs in the garden. Trevor loves the culinary joy of picking and harvesting your own herbs. Michelle loves how decadent it feels to be able to grow herbs so easily and harvest healthy plants that are usually […]

Todays’ podcast will teach you more about mulch that you never knew you needed to know. Will Trevor convince Michelle that choosing mulch for the nutritional benefits are more important than aesthetics?

What happens when years of gardening experience meets years of gardening enthusiasm? A passion not just for the how of gardening but the why? Why do we garden? What is it about the magic of nature that has so many people getting down and dirty? Whether you only want to just sit and have a […]