Through The Garden Gate

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/peoplesfoodandfarmingalliance YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePeoplesFoodFarming Calendar Link: https:...

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 wo...

You have all heard of a farm shop but have you heard of a farmer shop, that’s exactly what David is trying to create to get a better deal for farmers who are struggling to get a fair price for their produce. We also talked about how he cleared his Christmas tree field without selling a single tree 🌲 And all about Peonies of course! If you don’t already follow David go check him out I love his hon...

Marc and Jamie talk about their garden wins and fails this growing season. It’s was lovely everyone chipping in their garden wins for the year also. My dad set a challenge to grow a long carrot in sand next year! George gave us a gardening fact as per usual! Join us next week for another chat with someone from the world of horticulture 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Fab chat with the charming GQT regular great to have him on again for another hour and a half of setting the world to right. I always come away from a chat with Matthew with a list of things to go and look at and this one is no exception. Floral Britannica by Richard Mabey will be added to my TBR pile. George of course gave us a garden fact this week about how deciduous trees survive the winter. J...

Fantastic chat with Johnathan all about his National collections of Cosmos and Holyhocks. Loved hearing all about what it takes to exhibit at Chelsea and Hampton Court. I admire his attempts to make more sustainable and planet friendly practices more accountable at the flower shows. We of course got George gardening fact all about Cosmos also! Join us next week for a returning guest from the world...

What an inspiration young man Arlo is I absolutely love his passion for growing o His pumpkin 🎃 was amazing!! I can’t wait to see is journey in gardening. George of course gave us a gardening fact all about daylight saving time. Join us next week for another fantastic guest from the world of gardening 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Back by popular demand, for the forth time! A year since we last had him on the podcast. George of course gave us a gardening fact about autumn leaves and did the intro for our guest. Chris told us all about his relocation to Guernsey, and what he has been up too. Chris also played our new game winner stays on a chose Gardeners world presenters as his subject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Great to have a guest back on this week and what an inspirational lady whose garden has appeared on @gardenersworldtv last year. I love that she was inspired to dig up her lawn and create a beautiful garden made up of different mounds split up by gravel paths. I also love the idea of using milk bottles as low maintenance mini propagators to get your seeds growing. We also got a garden fact from Ge...

Tonight we had a last minute change of schedule so me and Jamie thought we would just have a good chat about what we have been up too and what’s going on in our gardens. George gave us a gardening fact about sunflowers 🌻 Thanks everyone who joined in with our chat live 👍🏻 Join us next week and we will hopefully have a guest to chat too 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

Wow what a lovely chat all about mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 it’s an ever expanding subject and one that has such an important role in soil health and can add an extra harvest to your veg beds! We love chatting to people who have absorbed as much as they possibly can about a subject and want to pass on that knowledge to other people. George of course gave us a gardening fact all about mushrooms in space 🚀 Th...

Returning guest from 541 days ago and I can’t believe it’s been that long! We always learn so much and get so much inspiration from Anjee I love her passion for preserving and growing as much of her own food to provide her family with organic goodness. I need to make some of those fruit winders now that’s my mission for the week watch this space I’ll try to have some for next weeks episode. We of...

Absolute pleasure to speak to Oliver who has created a fantastic product and is trying to establish a business to fund his gardening dreams. I am always impressed inspired by people who have ideas and actually manage to make them a reality! Loved hearing about his core memories of gardening with his dad as a child. Oliver was also the first person to answer Winter for his favourite season in the l...

Who else is inspired to go and set up a community garden after that wonderful chat with the lovely Victoria. So amazing how a community garden can bring so many people together and make so many connections and opportunities! I loved hearing everything Victoria has achieved and created. We of course got a gardening fact from George, this week about Dahlia. We also got a Hamilton the tortoise 🐢 upd...

Tonight we had the master of the Sunday Stroll Mike, who told us all about his journey in to gardening and how he transitioned from an office job to a full time gardening job. Mike also told us all about the @gdnmediaguild that he co chaired and chaired for 3 years. He was recommended for the position by another former guest of the podcast @tamsinwesthorpe He also shared his fab memories from his...

Tonight we talked to the wonderful Leigh about his journey in to gardening, what he has been up to, what he has planned. We also got a few Lee and Leigh exclusives! It was good of Leigh to also talk at length about his mental health struggles and how he has learnt to deal with those challenging times. I can’t wait to see what Leigh does next. We also got a fab gardening fact from George and he tol...

We made it to episode 100 of our little podcast and what an episode to have to celebrate the milestone 🍄 Marlow is a mushroom oracle absolutely fantastic knowledge of what we can find growing in our local environment. I can’t wait to check out his books which you kind find on his website linked in @wildfooduk profile George of course gave us a gardening fact and couldn’t contain his excitement ab...

Tonight we had a chat and a walk around our plots to show what’s doing well and surviving the tricky growing conditions this year. Jamie has lots of fabulous tomato plants and the ones outside were growing better than the inside ones. Marc’s squash arch is the best ever and the new veg garden is full of all sorts of vegGeorge gave us his gardening fact of course. Thanks for watching and join us ne...

Fab chat with Louise about her journey in to gardening after starting a career in baking and falling in to creating cooking content whilst following her heart growing her own produce. George gave us a fab gardening fact about Bees And we talked as always what we have been up to this week and what we are havesting from the veg garden at the moment. Thanks everyone for watching join us next week for...

We had some serious technical issues with this episode but thankfully we got there eventually but unfortunately it's not all in one place like usual. I have managed to piece it all together for the podcast release on Friday. But I think I have managed to post it in 15 minute sections so anyone who only watches it on here can see it all. Thank you so much to Andy for his time and patience, I ha...

So tonight we had a bit of a myth busting special trying to dispel some of the silly myths that people think will help them garden better. It’s always an educational episode when we have Becky on she is a font of a lot of knowledge. We got a topical Wimbledon related gardening fact from George who also showed us his swimming badges. Join us next we for another awesome guest from the world of horti...

Joining us on this episode was Dan who is a Landscaper and Designer with over 30 years of experience. I love that Dan has such great ethics and he has incredibly high standards that he expects everyone working for him to uphold so that the clients get the absolute best finished product. If you don’t follow Dan give him a follow he is always making everyone laugh 😆 George of course gave us an upda...

You won’t find a more wonderful human than Izzy he absolutely oozes passion for horticulture. I absolutely loved hearing about Izzy’s upbringing in South Africa and how his parent grew so much food for their family. If you don’t follow Izzy go give him a follow, you won’t be disappointed he shares want gets him excited about plants from such a unique prospective, the world would be a better place...

Fab to talk to someone with such a wealth of experience in the world of horticulture and has won some amazing award for his garden designs at Chelsea Flower Show. I loved hearing about how much exposure a charity gets for sponsoring a garden and usually end up making a lot more money than they have spent. I absolutely love how we get to talk to people we have never met on this podcast and we can h...

Great to chat the the OG of gardening instagram, and someone who we have both followed and listened to for years. If you don’t already listen go and check out Adam’s podcast Tales from the Potting Bench. We had a good chat about the recent @bbcgwlive which gardens we like and overall experience of the show, Adam also hinted he is thinking about doing a garden in the future maybe?! Look out for the...