Through The Garden Gate

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 💚

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 lightening round.And what a name drop @damemaryberry We of course got George’s gardening fact all about #bongleweed Thanks everyone for listening and watching, join us next week for another fantastic guest 💚

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 🐢 update.Join us next week for another fantastic guest from the world of horticulture 💚

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 time working with the_carol_klein George couldn’t contain his excitement about our new pet tortoise 🐢 Hamilton, he even gave us a gardening fact about what tortoise eat from the garden. And created a new #bongleweed Join us next week for another fantastic guest from the world of horticulture, thanks everyone for watching and listening 💚

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 told us all about his birthday.Thanks everyone for watching, join us next week for another awesome guest 💚

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 profileGeorge of course gave us a gardening fact and couldn’t contain his excitement about his birthday tomorrow!Thanks everyone for watching join us next week for another brilliant guest! 💚

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 next week for episode 100!! 💚

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 another guest from the world of horticulture.

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 have followed Andy for years and watched his herb empire grow from strength to strength. It was a pleasure to have him on our podcast.llove @urbanherbsuk mission to bring new and unusual herbs to people who wouldn't usually discover them.We also got George's gardening fact this week about Venus fly traps.Marc and Jamie also told us what they have been up to this week in the garden.

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 horticulture 💚

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 update to what he has been up too in the garden and had a great fact about Orchids 💚Join us next week for another fantastic guest!

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 with more people like him in it.George of course gave us a great heat related gardening fact and told us all about his shop and his chaos beds.Join us next week for another fantastic guest same time same 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 have an hour long conversation like we have been friends for years! Gardening is such a wonderful thing.We also got George’s weekly gardening fact this week about Butterfly’sJoin us next week same time same place when we will be talking to the enigmatic @for.plantssake 💚

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 out of context post it’s going to be a good one 😂George also came on and gave us a fab garden fact as always.See you next week when we will be talking to @adam.woolcott sane time same place 💚

I feel like this episode should be sponsored by @farmergracy as we were showing off our sale shopping splurges.George gave us an update as to what he has been up to in the garden and a gardening fact of course, this week about pumpkins not being a veg.We talked to Georgina all about how she got in to gardening and her favourite plants, she even gave us a great garden hack involving 🐍We also started a flower war between Dahlia and Chrysanthemums 🤺 Join us next week when we will be chatting to @viewfromthepottingbench same time same place! 💚

Fabulous to talk to Kate who managed to multitask being looking after an unsettled baby whilst talking to us about her gardening journey and her amazing garden at Hampton Court Flower Show in a few weeks time.Kate told us all about her origin story and how she got in to gardening and her love of growing pumpkins and houseplants.Marc and Jamie also talked about all the veg that’s growing in their garden allotment and what’s a doing well what’s not doing so well.We also got George’s gardening fact and an update of what he has been up too in the garden. Join us next week for when we chat to Georgina @plot_bae same place same time.

This week we chatted to someone you will know from their appearances on @gardenersworldtv and @bbcmorninglive as well as numerous other telly shows as well as regularly appearing at gardening shows. It is Mark Lane of course Mark came on to talk to us about his excellent new book The Future of Gardens which is out now available at all good bookshops, I highly recommend it if you want a glimpse in to the future and technologies that might filter down to the consumers in the next few years. It was great to hear Mark’s origin story and how gardening saved him during a dark time in his life and now is a passion campaigner for charities providing this service to others.We also spoke at length about how the shows and gardens can be more inclusive for people with a range of disabilities.Join us next week when we talk to Kate @pumpkins_etc about her garden @rhshampton_showteam and much more! Same time same place 💚

If you thought you knew everything there is to know about Daffodils I guarantee you Mena knows more. What a fantastic insight in to the world of growing Daffodils for competition!We also talked about Chelsea of course Marc talked about his experience from press day.George came on to chat about what he had been up to in the garden and to give us a gardening fact, this week all about water! Very topical.Join us next week when we talk to Mark Lane off the telly box! #gardeningpodcast