Bob
Flowerdew is a charismatic and somewhat eccentric
gardener whose passion for 'growing organic' has made him one of the country's leading organic
gardeners. He is a regular panel member of BBC Radio
4’s Gardeners' Question Time.
Bob has nearly an acre
of garden in Dickleburgh, Norfolk, where he lives
with his wife and their twin daughters.
''If we
plan well and grow the right plants in the optimum
combinations in the best places, and if we encourage
various forms of life to accompany them in our
gardens, we can let nature have almost complete
control over pests and diseases, over maintaining
and increasing fertility, and over producing bigger
returns than we could ever wrest from her by
coercion'' - Bob Flowerdew
One
example of bob's eccentricity is that his garden is absolutely
covered in used car tyres. He uses recycled tyres
for everything including building water storage tanks, strawberry
planters, growing potatoes and more, personally I
think its a great idea and have adopted my own
potato tyre towers.
He's
been gardening on his current plot for more than 16
years and grows organic fruit and vegetables of
almost every variety, including bananas, pineapples
and guavas. He also keeps chickens, ducks, geese and
bees. He set out to prove that all this can be done
single-handedly - and in your spare time - which he
has achieved.
Bob is
President of the Norfolk group of the Soil
Association.
