Growing heirloom veg hydroponically: GotG14

Join Emma the Space Gardener as she explores gardening on Earth… and beyond! In this episode, Emma explores some exciting interplanetary plant news and talks about two projects growing in the Orbital Garden – heritage hydroponics and space chiles.

For the first show of 2021, Emma the Space Gardener is finding it hard to concentrate in the midst of global turmoil. So the first Gardeners of the Galaxy episode of 2021, she focuses on what’s she’s growing in the Orbital Garden and some exciting space plants news. 

You can read more about Emma’s heritage hydroponics project, and Hellboy the space chile on the blog.

And from outer space, we hear about astronauts munching space radishes, the next batch of plants growing in Veggie, and Chinese seeds that have been to the Moon and back.

Gardeners of the Galaxy: episode 14 script

Hello and welcome to episode fourteen of Gardeners of the Galaxy, a podcast for all of the sentient beings in the Universe who have a passion for plants. I am Emma the Space Gardener, and I will be your host as we explore gardening on Earth… and beyond!

This is the first episode for 2021, and I’m recording it from Lockdown Britain. Mutant Covid is rampaging across the country, and we’re all back in isolation like we’re living on a space station. Except that we don’t know how long our mission will be, we didn’t train for this, and Mission Control is staffed by nutters.

Since the last show, we have Brexited from the European Union, and one consequence of that is that it’s now impossible for UK companies to export seeds to European countries (and Northern Ireland), and harder to import them as well. Hopefully that will all sort itself out in due course, but in the meantime, let’s focus on sending plants into