Through The Garden Gate
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Join Jamie & Marc as we have a rambling chat with people from the world of horticulture about their gardens and what gardening means to them. We also talk about what we have been up to in our garden allotment plots and what we are sowing & growing.
We have a different guest each week ranging from people you will know and fascinating people you will be pleased to of been introduced to.
We guarantee one thing plenty of laughs will be had each week and lots of gardening goodness to help and inspire your gardening life.
And listen to the end to hear our guest answers to our lightening round!
We have a different guest each week ranging from people you will know and fascinating people you will be pleased to of been introduced to.
We guarantee one thing plenty of laughs will be had each week and lots of gardening goodness to help and inspire your gardening life.
And listen to the end to hear our guest answers to our lightening round!
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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 know you all wanted to hear lots about the traitors first.Join us for another episode next week, thanks everyone for watching 💚
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 preserving isn’t worth knowing. It was interesting to hear about Stephanie’s love of growing and eating Aubergines.Thanks everyone for watching and listening, join us next time for another fabulous chat. 💚
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.Thanks everyone for joining us watching and listening, join us in 2 weeks time for another live episode 💚
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 💚
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 the nations mental and physical health. We definitely need a garden/nature portion a day like fruit and veg.Thanks everyone for watching and listening join us same place same time next week. 💚
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 our first guest of 2026 💚
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 💚
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! 💚
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/peoplesfoodandfarmingallianceYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePeoplesFoodFarming Calendar Link: https://pffa.newzenler.com/courses/pffa-calendar-2026Together We Grow course: https://pffa.newzenler.com/courses/together-we-growGeorge gave us a Christmassy garden fact.Join us next time for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚
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 💚
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 honesty about being a farmer.George gave us a gardening fact about where the first ever ornamental gardens were and we set him some homework to find out what the first ever greenhouse looked like.Join us next week for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚
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 💚
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.Join us next time for another fantastic guest from the world of horticulture 💚
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 of horticulture 💚
What an inspiration young man Arlo is I absolutely love his passion for growing oHis 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 💚
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.
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 George in his Christmas PJs again🎅🏻Join us next week when we will have another guest from the world of gardening 💚
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 💚
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 🚀Thanks everyone for watching and listening! Join us next week for another plantastic guest!
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 course got a garden fact from the ever bubbly George.Join us next week for another fantastic guest 💚
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