Through The Garden Gate

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. S...

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 pe...

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 w...

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 passi...

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...

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...

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 t...

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.

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 t...

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 w...

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...

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 a...

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 feeder...

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 al...

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...

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...

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 mone...

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 Ga...

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....

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 s...

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 gu...

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...

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. Th...

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...

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! 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...