Terry Walton

Since the age of four, when his dad first took him to his allotment, Terry has had a ‘growing’ desire to garden. He took his first allotment at the age of eleven and has now been gardening for over six decades.

Terry combined a busy life in industry, a happy family life with his wife and two sons with (at one stage) keeping ten allotment plots on the go. He is a born again organic gardener having seen the error of his ways in the late 1960’s and dispensed with using chemicals, now growing all his produce using all-natural means of nourishing them.

Terry retired in 2001 and by some very fortunate means started broadcasting from his allotments on the, then new, Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2. He also broadcasts regularly on the Afternoon show on BBC Radio Wales.

He’s been a gardening writer for many publications including Garden News, Gardening Which and Saga magazine.

He won the Gardening Practical Journalist of the year in 2016 at the Gardening Media Awards .

Now Terry has a weekly podcast – Terry Walton’s Plotcast on BBC Sounds, recorded on his plot in the Rhondda Valley where he shares his extensive gardening knowledge with both experienced  and new gardeners.