Through The Garden Gate

The man the myth the legend Charles Dowding graced us with and hour of his time to talk to us all about his well known methods and even some you may not of heard of before. I hope you have lots of inspiration from tonight’s episode, I can’t wait to read Charles new book which sounds enlightening. Thank you as ever for watching and listening and joining in if you watched live. Join us next week sam...

Lovely chat with Nic who saved our bacon as we had a guest pull out last minute. If you want to join in with Nic’s Christmas dinner grow along get over to her website grab the free guide and the seeds or use your own if you already have the varieties. How exciting that she is growing plants for a show garden again! I can’t wait to see that @bbcgwlive in Birmingham. @no12_garden_house popped on to...

We had a few sound issues tonight but I think it is still mostly okay, I’ll try to clean it up when I edit it for the podcast. Excellent chat with Thomas all about foraging and all his exciting plans with @planbeesuk Do check out his website for all his upcoming walks and you might see me and Jamie on one of them! . Thanks for watching see you next week at the same time 🤘🏻 Hosted on Acast. See a...

What an amazing chat with the incredible story teller Matthew. He has had some incredible experiences all made possible by being a gardener. I can’t wait to go an listen to the album that he said was his favourite Cherry Ghost - Thirst For Romance. We obviously talked @bbcgqt and his beautiful gardens at Chelsea. I love that @alantitchmarshcbe involuntarily made him tear up his plans and start aga...

Tonight we had the wonderful Mel on to chat all things gardening and wildlife and of course we spoke about her first book she is currently writing. If you want updates from Mel about her book follow @meltriestowriteastory Also check out Melissa’s regular articles in @gardenfolkmag Thanks for listening and everyone, come join us live next Tuesday at 19:30GMT on instagram 🎧 Hosted on Acast. See aca...

Lucy’s new book Grow Food Anywhere is out now at all good book shops and even some bad ones! What a delight to have Lucy on our podcast as we have been a fan of The Talking Heads podcasts for years. Lucy is definitely an oracle of grow your own and is so happy to impart that knowledge to anyone who asks. It was fantastic to delve deeper in to Lucy’s back story and how she ended up where she is now...

We went from no guests to two guests! Marc was out on Tuesday so I we had to move to Wednesday and our original guest couldn’t make it. So we chatted first to Jenny about her amazing garden her and her family have created. I loved some of the ideas she has incorporated, especially the Indian mint and planting oaks as a hedge. Second up we had Daniel Puicar head gardener at Middleton Hall this is t...

Podcast cross over episode, it was wonderful to chat to fellow podcasters @lauras_allotment_dream and @chayallotment talk about podcasting and definitely lots of gardening and allotment chat. Chay even managed to get some football chat in before the end ⚽️ Make sure you give Laura a follow so that she can realise her Quail dream, by reaching the goal her husband set her of 3000 followers. Thanks...

After our Christmas hiatus we are back, Jamie shares his health update after his surgery and we chat about my flooded garden and what we are looking forward to growing next year! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So we thought we would do something different and do a quiz for you all, there are 25 Christmassy garden related questions to answer. We do not give the answers in the episode but I will release them with the podcast on Friday. If you want to win a prize DM me or Jamie with your 25 answers, we will trust you not to google all the answers. (Santas watching 🎅🏻) Then the person with the most correc...

We’re back! After Jamie’s operation got cancelled we thought we would come back and do a few more episodes before Christmas 🎄 In this episode we chat to Noah a gardener at @thornbridge_estate and what he gets up to at work and his quirky garden and house. Highlights from the episode ⬇️ 🛞 Noah told us about his Wheel done that he made out of bicycle wheels 🏰 Why his house is quirky. 🐥 What was...

In this episode, George gave us his gardening fact of the week! Which involved 🌷and 🏅 I did a quiz for Jamie about the guests we have had for the past year he got 6 out of 9 correct (or 5 if we take his first answer 😂) The guests who were mentioned from the year were @groovygardeninguk, @alex.grows.food, @adesellars, @cmcollins_hort, @twogirlsoneplotpodcast, @my_little_patch_of_earth , @life_on...

The longest ever episode and it’s a good one! Fiona and Hugh are living off the land trying to be as self sufficient as possible. Highlight from the episode 👇🏻 🦵 Fiona told us about her awful leg break that she is only just recovering from. 🐓The was lots of Chicken chat for all the chicken keepers out there. 🍬 Hugh told us about his sugar making experience 🥔 They told us their favourite vari...

An organic veg grower in Suffolk growing in a 4 acre farm 🚜 Awesome chat here are some highlights 🗺️ Great to hear Greg’s journey in to farm life 🚤 An unexpected former career 🧪 Great to hear Greg’s experience with contaminated manure and how he dealt with it and how he plans to avoid it happening again 🌳 Why fruit tree and bushes were the first thing he planted 🌱 Fantasic to hear more about...

Wow what a chat I think we put the world to rights in that hour and a half! Ed incredibly passionate about making sure that everyone who wants to grow can grow after being told the waiting list for his local allotments was 28 years! Highlights from the episode 👇🏻 🏢 From marketing to confounding @rootsallotments 💚 Convincing his family to let him grow food in the garden during lockdown. 🍺 Inst...

Tonight we talked to the lovely Steff who is in her first year of having an allotment and is also fairly new to instagram, so if you don’t follow go give her a follow 👍🏻 Highlights from tonight’s episode 👇🏻 🍆 The Italian name Steff calls Aubergines is so much nicer that the English or American. 🌳 We spoke a lot about @rootsallotments 🌱 Steff told us about her successes this year 🫛 What she...

Wow what a fascinating adventure in gardening John has had over the last few years! Highlights from the episode 🐝 We obviously covered Bees a lot! 🏡 John told us all about his renovation journey since buying his new home. 🚚 The fact he had more plants when he moved that furniture 😂 🦌 John told us about the biggest threat to his new garden. 🧠 John’s day job as a Professor of Neoscience. Thank...

George took over the start of the episode to tell everyone about his charity walk again and to give an update of the total raised which is £511 thank you to everyone who has donated so far it’s so kind of you, the link is on Marc’s profile. Todays guest was Ben who has been flying the flag for British flowers for 10 years with over 650 talks throughout the UK. Highlights from the episode ⬇️ 🧹Ben...

We thought we would do a Greenfingers charity special with Jamie and Marc both being ambassadors of the charity we wanted to share a few exciting fundraising updates First we had Marc’s son George on to talk about his fantastic fundraiser where he will be doing a 8 mile walk from a local park all the way in to Lincoln and up Steep hill ending up at the Castle, he came up with this all on his own....

Really sorry about the rain during this episode, Marc did mute his mic to stop the noise. What an amazing and unique journey in horticulture Chris has had 🤯 Here are some of the highlights 👇🏻 🌳 The story of the tree he planted on his first day at work that he can now sit in. 🇯🇵 Selling Roses to the Japanese 🐵 Sharing a bedroom with a Chimp 🪱 Bringing 10000 worms in to Westminster Abbey 👻 Ge...

What an absolute treat to have Julia on the podcast tonight, the hour flew by. Highlight of the episode ⬇️ 🎙️Julia turned the tables and asked us some questions 📚We talked all about her wonderful book 💚 Julia told us how she got in to gardening 🍿Marc may of asked Julia to do a crazy experiment regarding her popping corn. 🥫 Listen to find out why Julia regularly visits @pizzaexpress Make sure y...

Tonight me and Jamie had a good chat about what we have been up to and what we have been growing what’s been successful what’s been a failure. Highlights from the episode ⬇️ 🥜 Jamie tells us all about spreading his seed 🫣 Everyone is also jealous of his giant warty p….. umpkin 🌊 We talked about the crazy weather the uk has had this week 📖 We even talked about books with @home_at_springcottage...

Absolute pleasure to be graced with Ades company for an hour this evening, we could have talked all night! If you haven’t already go check out his Down the Garden Path series on You Tube Highlights from our chat 👇🏻 🚰 The story of the secret tap was epic 💚 I adore the relationship between Ade and his wife enjoying growing food together. 🫛 We need to invite Ade back to find out why he thinks a...

Great chat with Emma about her wonderful boarders at the two garden shows and her journey in horticulture. Some of the highlights 👇🏻 💚 Why Emma chose Landscape Architecture. 🏠 What it’s like being involved with the design of a new estate. 📰 We tried our best to get an exclusive from Emma whether she would do another show garden. 💚 Emma shared some exciting news with us! 🌳 Lots of behind the...

This weeks episode we chat to Amy West a former allotment holder and gardener who has created a vegetable garden in a rented property. Marc and Jamie have had busy weeks, Marc attended Gardeners World Live Autumn Fair at Audley End and Jamie has been to a course with the legend that is Charles Dowding! Highlight from this episode 👇🏻 🧢 Marc has a special hat especially for the Lightening round...