Bob Flowerdew is an organic gardener, and television and radio presenter. Organic horticulture is the science and art of growing fruits vegetables flowers or ornamental plants by following the essential principles of organic agriculture in soil He is a regular panel member of BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners' Question Time. Gardeners' Question Time is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme in which amateur gardeners can put questions to a panel of experts He has nearly an acre of garden in Diss, Norfolk, where he lives with his wife, Vonnetta, a care worker, and their twins, Italia and Malachi. DISS ( Disability Information Services is part of the Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People (QEF a Charitable organisation based in Norfolk (ˈnɔrfək is a low-lying county in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom. [1]
He is known as one of Britain's leading organic gardeners. He is the son of a farmer and his family have been working the land in East Anglia since before the time of the Tudors. East Anglia is often used as a shorthand for the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor was an English royal Dynasty that lasted 118 years from 1485 to 1603 a period known as the Tudor period After graduating in financial management he worked his way around Europe and North America becoming fascinated by the different gardening and farming methods, returning to pick grapes with one French family for 12 successive years.
Flowerdew runs a consultancy landscape service, is President of the Norfolk group of the Soil Association, and also teaches at agricultural college. Norfolk (ˈnɔrfək is a low-lying county in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom. The Soil Association is a UK membership Charity that promotes Sustainable food and farming through the use of Local, Seasonal and He has worked in television, presenting the Channel 4 series Muck and Magic, and appeared on Sophie Grigson's Grow Your Own Greens, where he was the sweetcorn expert. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began Hester Sophia Frances Grigson is an English cookery writer and Celebrity chef known as Sophie Grigson. Sweet corn ( Zea mays var rugosa) also called indian corn, sweetcorn, sugar corn, pole corn, or simply corn
He has written books on gardening including:
- 2007 Going Organic: The Good Gardener's Guide to Getting It Right
- 2007 Gourmet Gardener: Everything You Need to Know to Grow and Prepare the Very Finest of Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables
- 2004 The No-Work Garden: Getting the Most Out of Your Garden for the Least Amount of Work
- 1998 Bob Flowerdew's Organic Bible
- 1995 Bob Flowerdew's Complete Fruit Book
- 1995 Bob Flowerdew's Complete Book of Companion Gardening
- 1993 The Organic Gardener
References
External links
- BBC Profile
- "A Growing Influence - Bob Flowerdew, Britain's Man In the Middle Of the Garden" by Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, July 17, 2006
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