Through The Garden Gate

Tonight we started as always with a quick chat with George and he asked us a garden question, this week about the largest ever pumpkin.

Also we some how got talking about a game called knock down ginger which Jamie used to play when he was younger, who else has heard of it?

Our guest tonight is the author of a wonderful book I have just finished called Fully Alive, all about how we need to become better humans are reconnect with each other to form more empathetic cohesive communities.

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We start with a question from George as always, this week about where 70% of the oxygen in the planet comes from.

Our guest tonight is more than just a guest, I would consider him a friend. A fellow head gardener battling with limited resources to deliver as high a quality of garden as possible.

He has the added pressure that it’s an open garden in a historical site with areas of SSSI.

We spoke about the fact raw sewage is being discharge by the local sewage plant on to th...

We start as always with a quick chat with George and a garden question, this week all about which species of plants that provide all the food for the human race.

Tonight’s guest is definitely living the dream, living off grid in a sustainable cabin in the woods. Built from wood milled from the trees.

How incredible for Marcus to have played and made dens in the woodland as a kid then go on to build his own house for his family in the same woodland.

It was also gr...

We started as we always do with a quick chat with George and his garden question, this week about snails. What a fabulous fact I don’t think many people knew.

Tonight we have Josh Taylor who is a garden designer and consultant at the moment but he has had some fantastic experiences in his career including at Great Dixter.

He is also trying to highlight some really serious problems in horticulture firstly the pay which for the amount of skill that is involved and years that it takes to acquire those skills sh...

We start with George Christmas list before we actually get on to some garden chat and George’s garden question, this week about sugar cane 🦯

What a pleasure to have Izzy on again and to talk to him about all the success he has had with his social media and more importantly about plants!

Izzy has had some great experiences this year and even got to visit the kings personal garden Highgrove with @gardenwithjonny

I love how passionate and authentic Izzy is about gardening and completely agree with him that fight...

We’re back after a week off, hope you didn’t miss us too much! We started talking about the weather obviously and the equinox, Then we got a garden question from George this week about courgette!

This weeks guest we tried to have on a few weeks ago but technical difficulties prevented it but tonight we have the wonderful Tasha all the way from the Isle of Man! 🇮🇲

Tasha has revolutionised the way we take pictures of our veg and definitely has a cult following now 🍄‍🟫🍆🥕

Tasha told us how she got in to foragi...

Short one today because we had a guest pull out, we started as always with George’s garden question this week all about a fruit with built in air conditioning!

Jamie had something exciting to show us… Honey from his bee hives! His first ever harvest! 🐝

Jamie also told us all about his trip to Fothergills, one of the largest seed supplier in the UK.

Of course we talk about the shocking gardening news that Monty Don is stepping down from hosting Gardeners World at the end of the year! 

We start the episode as ever with a fab question from George this week all about the largest garden in the world!

Marc and Jamie discuss the shocking and unexpected drawing in of the evenings that happens every year and of course the weeks weather.

Tonight we spot the the soil enthusiast Teddy who knows more about soil than most people know about the food grown in it.

Fantastic chat that could have gone on for hours, Teddy has had some incredible experiences of how food is produced in other...

A random time and day for a very good reason, today’s guest is from the east coast of Australia so for him it’s 19:30pm.

We started as we always do with a quick chat and a garden question from George, this week about Rhubarb as we were wearing Rhubarb leaves on our heads the other day.

Our guest is from the other side of the world, who is trying to help people reduce the supply chain from food grower to food eater with self sufficiency, connecting with nature and forming a comm...

We start as ever with a chat with George and a gardening question, this week about a plant that listens to the flow of water 💦 

Our guest had major technical issues so we were unable to get her on but we will try again another day!

So me and Jamie just chatted about our growing season, what we have succeeded in what’s failed what we need to try next year to create a more resilient veg garden.

Thanks for all our regulars for joining in with the chat 💚

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Tonight we started with rhubarb leaves on our heads, the heat is obviously getting to us, George told us all about his adventures over the last few weeks and about him being brave and conquering his fears. Then he gave us a garden question as ever! This week all about Hummingbird Hawk Moths.

Tonight’s guest is a horticultural consultant who started her career in hospitality and even to the far reaches of Japan teaching kids to ski, then decided to career change in to Horticulture.

Now teaching other people the wonderful subject of...

No guest tonight but we had our regular question from George this week about wildflowers and bees 

Then Marc and Jamie did a tour of their plots and talked about what they have growing, successes and failures.

Thanks everyone for joining in with the chat. See you next week for another rambling chat with a guest from the world of horticulture 💚

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We started the show as always with a question from George this week all about something from your kitchen that will help your tomatoes 🍅 

We started a bit late after a bizarre pheasant emergency after one was alive and stuck in my cars front grill.

Tonight’s guest passion is exotics and a jungle style garden. He has created an amazing space that feels extremely jungly using plants are capable of getting through a British winter.

George also shows us around his garden so make sure you check out the video...

This weeks garden question from George was all about how many seeds a strawberry have on them 🍓

Tonight’s guest hopes to inspire people to discover where their food comes from, and maybe choose a career in Agriculture. She is the host of Second Nature @second_natureuk a podcast celebrating the seasons, farming, gardening and the countryside. She also has a cute sidekick called Willow the Corgi.

So fantastic to talk to Lizzie all about her career in farming and how she has discovered her love for not just farming but growing food.

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...

Welcome to another episode, this week we are slowly baking alive in the dehumidifier formally known as United Kingdom, we start as ever with a chat with George and his famous gardening question. Who will win this week Jamie, Marc or will George stump them both.

Tonight’s guest is a geologist with nearly 40 years experience having working on projects all over the world.

He has now moved in to the world of horticulture to teach gardeners, farmers, developers, landowners, estates and horticulturalists in the biological/soil food web approach to

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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...

We started the show as always with George’s gardening question, this week about courgette. We also got a radish update and chatted about what we have been up too.

Our guest tonight was another gardener with a luscious head of hair, he has had 26 years as a landscape gardener, and is now an aspiring Garden Designer and even won a Silver Gilt Medal for his Blooming Border at RHS Malvern Spring show this year. He is currently gardening at a retirement estate with an incredible ethos and a wealth of history.

As ev...

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 Ja...

We start as always with George’s garden question, this week about lawn mowers and when they were invented.

Tonight we have a wildlife expert which you would think has nothing to do with gardening but in my opinion the two are very closely linked and the more natural we can make our gardens the better.

It’s interesting to think about what plant you need to atract a certain insect and how specific those insect can be.

If you are ever in the sout...

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.

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Yes you read that right Jamie thought it would be interesting to turn the tables and interview Marc as the guest tonight so we can find out his story right from the beginning.

George gave us his weekly garden question this week all about daisys and the scores are Marc 9 Jamie 5 and George 4 (George gets a point if Marc and Jamie get it wrong)

We even got a bonus guest in Marc’s mum popping on to tell us all about her days in the circus 🎪

Marc has always known he wa...

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 Ch...

Great to be with you all again back at our usual time with only a few hiccups.

We of course started with the big reveal of Marc’s new caravan garden room, George gave us his garden question, this week about Avocardo.

It was fantastic to have a tour of Elle’s garden now we have lighter evenings. She has achieved so much in a short space of time. With no doubt lots of hard work.

If you don’t follow Elle go give her a follow 👍🏻

Join us next...

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 ne...

We didn’t just have on guest we had 3! Tom, Aime and Jon who are currently building a garden for the @rhsmalvernshowteam

They count have chose a more perfect brief after the @rspb advice to stop feeding birds from feeders during the summer months to try and reduce disease. They have design a garden with creating habitat and food for our feathered friends all year without the need to put out feeders.

If you are heading to the Malvern show in a few weeks make sure you go and check this out!

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...

We are back after a week off and spring has definitely sprung the light is back in the evening and the bulbs are blooming!

George gave us a gardening question as always and this week it was about Tulips 🌷

Our guest the lovely Alex a career changer who has thrown her self in to being a gardener.

She has designed a Gold medal winning garden @bbcgwlive

Alway interesting to hear peoples journey in to gardening and how often it is a healing experience on the way.

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...

If you love tomatoes you are going to love this episode!

George gave us a garden question to start and it was about willows, as we were creating a living willow tunnel at @wild.inthe.woodscic this weekend which George helped with as well as lots of other fantastic volunteers.

We spoke to Ana about where her love of gardening came from.

She also told us how her daughter waning to make a bit of money selling seeds led to her creating her own heirloom seed shop.

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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...

We start as usual with a garden question from George this week with a space theme after our trip to the space centre in Leicester. He also told us all about his pewter fossil necklace that he made @wild.inthe.woodscic this week.

Stephanie has had a fantastic career in gardening and her third book “The Productive Garden An essential guide to self sufficiency” is available at the end of next month. Make sure you preorder it now from Stephanie’s website.

What Stephanie doesn’t know about growing and preservi...

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.

We started with George’s gardening question can Marc keep up his winning streak or will Jamie get one back?

Fabulous chat with Laura how she went from retail to working full time as a gardener.

Loved all the hellebore chat they are looking amazing right now.

We always like talking to gardeners who want to dispel the myth of gardens going to bed in the winter.

Join us next week for another great guest, same time same place. Thanks everyone for watching and listening 💚

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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 th...

We are back after our Christmas break.

George is now quizzing me and Jamie each week and we will see who answers the most right at the end of each month. Marc took a 1-0 lead.

We went down memory lane after George question of who the first presenter of Gardeners World was. We talked of our earliest memories in gardening.

We also talked about what we have been up too, and our plans for the year.

Thanks everyone for listening and join us next week for...

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 💚

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Lovely to chat to Kate what an amazing and varied career in horticulture she has had and what stories she has about her time on gardeners world.

It nice to hear someone not get the gardening bug from their grandparents but fall in love in the most unexpected way!

George gave us a garden fact about Poinsettia.

Join us next week for our last episode this year! 💚

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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.

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We finally got my colleague Debbie on, who has been helping me at work all summer.

Great to chat about what we have been up to at work and how far we have come.

I also loved hearing Debbie’s garden origin story.

George gave us some more information about the Roman greenhouse and told us about his swimming badge he has just earned.

Join us next week for another fantastic guest from the gardening world 💚

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