Through The Garden Gate

We started as we always start with chaos and a gardening question from George. This week it was about bulbs. Tonight we had a guest who’s mission is to help change the way we live as a society, he believes we should be growing food as a community and not relying on the shops.I loved how Chay has found a connection to nature that has made his life complete and now he wants to inspire more people to break away from the systems that are controlling us all.My vote is for him to be the next Prime Minister 💚It’s incredible what you can achieve with a community, in less than 11 week they have created a growing space and are harvesting from it.Join us next week for another episode and a guest from the world of horticulture 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We start as always with a chat with George and his gardening question, this week all about Raspberries.Marc and Jamie chatted about what they had been up too in their gardens, Marc gave a Robomower update from work.Our guest tonight is someone with over 32 years experience in the world of horticulture, specialising in creating gardens that are naturalistic and wildlife friendly. He is very passionate about making the world a better place for all and even has a petition to try and force change with new build estates to be more sympathetic with nature and green spaces. Sign Paul’s petition https://c.org/4T4nTzV5FmI love hearing how Paul creates gardens with nature and wildlife at the forefront rather than an afterthought. Which also leads to a much smaller cost than traditional hard landscaping and garden design.Thanks everyone for watching and listening, join us next week for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We start as we always do with George’s gardening question this week about Radish. We all now need to sow some and see if the answer is correct. Tonight our guest was Jack who is a life long nature lover, a gardener, a designer, a writer who has featured in @gardenersworldmag @guardian @gardens_illustrated and many others, as well as being the author of Wild about Weeds and A Greener Life. I would also add artist on to the list.We geeked out about compost our favourite topic, and even about how Jamie plans to use goats to stop him having to use weed killer.What an incredible stat that over 40% of UK gardens are paved over, we definitely need to start reducing that number.We definitely need to check out the tile whacking in Europe 😂Thanks everyone for watching and listening join us again next week for another guest from the gardening universe 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jamie and Marc chat about the positives and negatives of Chelsea Flower show.We also chatted all about the other garden shows coming up! George gave us a garden question this week about bees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We started with a question from George as always and Marc and Jamie got it wrong again! This week about the biggest flower in the world.Tonight we had the horticultural lifer Chris Wiley who has been gardening since the age of 8 and even asked for a greenhouse as a present.Chris has had such a fantastic career so far from working in a nursery to releasing an amazing new sweet pea variety which won Best plant of the Year 2022 at @bbcgwlive Now Chris’s latest venture is @hortiaichris which Chris has poured all of his knowledge and other experts to create a horticultural specific AI you can try this for free for the first month if you want to try it out.Chris also has a sustainable plant store online for all your eco friend gardening needs.Oh and did we mention he is a massive galanthophile!Join us next week for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No guest just us having a chat showing and talking about what we have growing in our gardens. After Instagram not letting us have sound on for the last few days we finally managed to get it sorted.George gave us his weekly update in to his gardening world and gave Jamie and Marc their weekly gardening question. This week about apple trees.It’s lovely to have a chat just the two of us every now and again and interact more with everyone watching.See you next Tuesday for another episode with a guest hopefully 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What a privilege to have the knowledgeable house plant expert Jane on the podcast.We started as ever with a quick chat with George and a gardening question about Asparagus this week.Jane is the author of three books The Allotment Keepers Handbook, Legends of the Leaf and the latest book The Atlas of Deadly Plants.She also hosts an award winning podcast On The Ledge which has over 300 episode all about houseplants. Jane also encourages her listeners to join in with a house plant grow along to grow your own houseplants from seeds, which I have joined in with very successfully. There is also a thriving paetron community with different levels to help support Janes podcast. All info is available on her website.Jane showed us some of her houseplant collection, I loved the idea of creating a planter of plants that enjoy similar growing conditions, the floating moss balls are a great entry level plant for beginners.Thanks everyone for watching and listening, join us next week for another awesome guest from the world of gardening 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We started the show as ever with our question from George, this week it was about Daffodils. Then we got our guest Chris in to talk all things garden and of course his back story.I loved hearing about some of the behind the scenes chat about Garden Rescue.If you haven’t seen Chris’s 2024 Chelsea garden go check it out because it was absolutely stunning and give @sidhillecogardens a follow who he co designed with.We of course finished with the lightening round what a trio Chris chose to garden with! Thanks everyone for watching and listening, join us back in 2 weeks time! 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We start the episode with George’s gardening question for Marc and Jamie, this week all about Bluebells. Can Jamie make it two wins in a row?When we recorded the podcast on Tuesday we had lots of technical difficulties but hopefully managed to edit it in to a coherent episode.It was great to hear all of the behind the scenes gossip about @thetraitorsukofficial James gave us an exclusive about Gardeners World which was very exciting news.We obviously got on to the gardening chat eventually, but we know you all wanted to hear lots about the traitors first.Join us for another episode next week, thanks everyone for watching 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No guest tonight so Marc and Jamie just chatted all things gardening and what they both had been up too.George gave us our 4th garden question which was about trees.We talked about snowdrops which are at their peak right now, make sure you get out and check out your local snowdrop displays.Jamie told us about his new purchases from @monksilvernursery Marc needs someone to invent an industrial sized shredder so he can chop and drop the large perennial beds at his work garden.Thanks everyone for joining us watching and listening, join us in 2 weeks time for another live episode 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We start of as always with a little chat with George, he gave Marc and Jamie our second head to head question.Marc also asked George what he was grateful for today and he said the garden which was lovely.After a few technical difficulties we got our guest Susan in who is transforming her patients lives with treatment that you would not expect a GP to prescribe.What an incredible thing to create a garden to connect people and encourage community. It’s definitely the way forward to improve the nations mental and physical health. We definitely need a garden/nature portion a day like fruit and veg.Thanks everyone for watching and listening join us same place same time next week. 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for 25 questions about gardening and some popular culture questions and a cryptic round.George started the quiz with 5 questions about his past gardening facts. If you want to play along the answers are all at the end of the podcast so pause before before we go in to them, we give plenty of warning.Thanks everyone for watching and listening to us this year we will be back in the new year! Merry Christmas from Marc and Jamie 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Great to chat to Sam about her love for growing food and her passion to get more and more people to start growing and cooking their own food. It’s always fab to talk with someone so driven to change the way we do things.Website: https://www.the-pffa.org/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peoplesfoodandfarmingallianceYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePeoplesFoodFarming Calendar Link: https://pffa.newzenler.com/courses/pffa-calendar-2026Together We Grow course: https://pffa.newzenler.com/courses/together-we-growGeorge gave us a Christmassy garden fact.Join us next time for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.