Through The Garden Gate
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Join Jamie and Marc as we go Through The Garden Gate and find out about people from the world of horticulture’s gardens and what gardening means to them.
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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🎙️Meet Emmy @permieemmy 🦑 (if you listen to the whole episode you will understand
the squid emoji)
Prepare to have your minds blown this is life changing stuff that was discussed in this episode.
Five things we learn in this episode 👇🏻
1. Permaculture isn’t just a growing method it’s a way of life 🤯
2. You can use this method even on something as small as a pot 🪴
C. Permaculture can help to stop your garden from flooding 💦
4. Chives and other herbs will keep the pests away! 🐜
5. Growing Marjoram along side fruit such as tomatoes will make them taste sweeter 🍅
If you have never heard of Permaculture have a listen and discover a whole new world way of sustainable gardening 💚
What an amazing chat!
Thank you so much everyone for watching and Emmy for her time and knowledge, let's all give permaculture a try!
This week we had the wonderful Louise on for a quick tour of her veg garden before the rain came down to heavy. She has been creating amazing spaces within the local community to regenerate unused planting spots to brighten up and create wildlife pockets in the urban environment.
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!
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 listen until then end of the conversation to hear this weeks code word used back at them.
If you don’t already listen to them go check them out.
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!
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.
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 Pershore college then finally to Melbourne.
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
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 week.
Todays episode we chatted to seaweed farmer Alexander who lives on the Outer Hebrides
On this episode we have the unofficial 4th member of our podcast Kerry @lottie_thyme_
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.
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 book here https://mrplantgeek.com/ and with the code welcome10 he will sign the copy for you. Check out his awesome T-shirts also I have a couple.
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.
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.
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 grown lots of their seeds this year and they are fantastic, go and check
them out I recommend Godetia ‘Crown’
Thanks for listening, don’t forget to follow and leave us a review it helps us to grow as I hope we are helping you to!
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
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.
Make sure you follow August @augusts_garden
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 👍🏻
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.
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