Through The Garden Gate

Marc and Jamie have been doing involved with the building of 2 showcase gardens Kim O’briens @dahliafarmerama and Ben Shutler @plot27bristol We also had an exclusive from Kim, Mario part of Kim’s build team also joined us. Leanne whose garden won a Platinum medal and Best Beautiful Boarder and Gardeners World Magazine readers choice awards! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

How did we get to episode 40 already!! That’s crazy!! What a way to celebrate the milestone by having our first double guest on the podcast, the wonderful Jen and Richenda of Two Girls One Plot Podcast. I have recently found this podcast and binged it. It’s so great to follow their journey in creating there first allotment plot. We had a great chat with them and such a good laugh make sure you lis...

Todays episode is our final episode in our back catalogue so the final one with Ben, we talk To the wonderful Lottie Newitt about all things plants! Her Gardening journey and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s episode we spoke to the wonderful Jayne about her journey in gardening. We spoke about flooded veg gardens/allotments. Jaynes You Tube Channel and much much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today’s guest is the wonderful Head Gardener at Melbourne Hall gardens in Derby. It’s was great to hear some of the history of the gardens and some of the exciting newer additions that have been made in the most recent history. We also talk about slugs and pests and the natural order of thing. David told us about his journey in to gardening from South Africa where it wasn’t a viable career to Pers...

In todays episode of the podcast Marc and Jamie discuss their gardening week then we get our wonder guest in for a garden tour and a good planty chat. We also use Aileen as a Guinea pig for our new lightening round of questions at the end. Go over to Instagram to follow Aileen @plants_proseccoandparenting Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode was recorded just before Christmas 2023 We discuss our favourite parts of the first 20 episodes of Through The Garden Gate, we keep it really about how Christmas is better when you have young kid. Also how we don’t have Christmas lists ourselves. Who says you can’t have Christmas in May! There’s only 2 classic episode left after this one then we are only going to be doing 1 episode a...

Todays episode we chatted to seaweed farmer Alexander who lives on the Outer Hebrides Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Todays episode is with the self proclaimed Tea magician. Great to learn more about Alexandra’s garden journey from Moldova to the UK working at the Palm Centre and being a Herbarian at the National History museum. We shocked her by admitting we have never tried loose leaf tea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the one and only Michael Perry aka @mr_plantgeek recorded in December 2023 Hortpreneur, traveller, Author, Speaker, TV Presenter, Trend setter, Model, Podcaster, Influencer, Man in Pants, Sex Symbol, Car Lover, Plant addict, columnist, Celebrity Gardener, Blogger and Substacker, and many many more! What a pleasure to have Michael’s time in what was our longest ever live! You can get Michael’s...

Tonight’s episode Marc goes solo because Ben and Jamie both had Family emergencies. We had a tour of Leanne’s 3 allotment plots then talked about gardening in school and lots about Leanne’s Beautiful Border at Gardeners World Live in June. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today’s episode was recorded at the end of November the guys are still trying to record the podcast in their gardens despite it only being 2 degrees outside. Marc was wearing 3 hats to try and stay warm! Check out Spotify if you want to see the full video. Kim is a dahlia growing expert so it was great to have her on the show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we had the pleasure of talking to the effervescent Gemma about her journey in to gardening. We talked about her awesome portable cutting garden, made from plastic crates meaning if she had to move houses she can take it all with her. We also talked about all things floral displays. We also mention Higgledy Garden an awesome small British seed company that Gemma works for, Marc has also g...

In today’s episode we had a good chat between us no guest but we talked about allotment waiting lists and costs, we talked about what is going on in our garden, this episode was recorded at the end of November 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we spoke to the brilliant August about her gardening journey from Air Hostess to the Head of Raymond Blancs gardening school. After technical issues at the start we managed to crack on and have a wonderful chat the evening flew by! We also discuss Augusts magical garden at home where she has secret doors and a fully kitted out caravan and regularly cooks on an open fire in the garden. Ma...

Nice to have a fellow full time gardener to talk to this week! What an incredibly knowledgeable guy Daniel is and the enthusiasm he has for the history of the place that he works is awe inspiring. This episode was recorded in November 2023 Thank you for listening make sure you give us a follow and rate the episode it helps to get us in the ears of like minded people 👍🏻 Hosted on Acast. See acast...

This week we have the wonderful Jen from @life_on_the_lot Marc’s son George starts the episode, I think that Marc may have some competition as the host. We speak to Jen about her allotment journey, Strange things buried at her allotment site and JCBs abandoned next door to her plot, her partner being the allotment Chairman and her upcoming appearance at RHS Urban Show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

In this weeks episode we chat to the lovely Francesca who had recently appeared on a segment of Gardeners World showing people around her garden in Yorkshire. This episode was recorded at the beginning of November 2023 it was great hearing the behind the scenes details on what happens on a recording for a tv show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s episode recorded live on Instagram on Tuesday night we were joined by the amazing Tamsin Westhorpe gardener at Stockton Bury Garden. Tamsin has had quite the career in horticulture starting working in the parks department, being an interior landscaper, a shop owner, a magazine writer and editor, an RHS judge and now a gardener at her uncles garden. It was great to have a chat with Tamsi...

Tonight’s guest is the Senior Edlitor of Garden Folk Magazine What a great chat with Anjee about her journey in to horticulture, home educating her 4 kids, getting chickens during lockdown and so much more. If you don't already follow @gardenfolkmag give them a follow and check out the latest edition of the magazine, and check out the website for the exciting new membership options.https://gardenf...

This episode was recorded towards the end of October 2023 we were joined by Arthur to discuss the disgraceful practice of gangs going in to collect chickens from farms but the treatment of the animals during this process is horrendous. We really need to get away from our reliance on factory farming and get back to sustainable, cruelty free, ethical, local chicken farms. Toward the end of the episo...

Todays guest we have been wanting to get on for a long time, she is probably responsible for all of us doing what we do. Stef is so encouraging so down to earth no nonsense what you see is what you get, not afraid to show the ugly bit and the fails, doesn’t try to preach just loves to share her knowledge years of growing her own. If you are part of #gardengram you will have heard of #uglygrid #pow...

Today we talk to friend of the podcast Rachel We chat chickens and allotments, how gardening helps your mental health. We also talk which tomato varieties we are growing next year. This episode was recorded in September last year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sophie is a career changer formally a teacher of primary kids now a teacher of the magical practice of growing your own cut flowers. Lots of great tips of what seeds to sow now as well as an insight in to Sophie’s garden. Also in the episode one of Bens chicks hatches during the recording of this episode! If you don’t already follow Sophie give her a follow @floraldayintheshires We also mention Fl...

This weeks episode we asked previous guest and our listeners to send in questions for us to answer, a good way to learn a bit more about us and for the audience to get their gardening questions answered. Marc drops a bombshell by saying that he doesn’t like one of Britain’s favourite gardeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.