Through The Garden Gate

Tonight we started as always with a quick chat with George and he asked us a garden question, this week about the largest ever pumpkin.

Also we some how got talking about a game called knock down ginger which Jamie used to play when he was younger, who else has heard of it?

Our guest tonight is the author of a wonderful book I have just finished called Fully Alive, all about how we need to become better humans are reconnect with each other to form more empathetic cohesive communities.

Elizabeth is from a family of exceptional gardeners and has in the last few years discovered that she too has the passion for gardening and is learning through trial and error how to produce food for her community.

What a nourishing conversation about how trying something that could be tricky and difficult has resulted in a successful mini community living experience that would be horrifying to most people but has worked for them.

If we are going to survive the turbulent times ahead we all need to be brave and try new things, they might turn in to something unexpected.

Thanks everyone for joining in with the conversation, join us again next week same time same place.

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We start with a question from George as always, this week about where 70% of the oxygen in the planet comes from.

Our guest tonight is more than just a guest, I would consider him a friend. A fellow head gardener battling with limited resources to deliver as high a quality of garden as possible.

He has the added pressure that it’s an open garden in a historical site with areas of SSSI.

We spoke about the fact raw sewage is being discharge by the local sewage plant on to the lake on the site which has SSSI status and there’s nothing they can do to stop it.

We finally got on to talking about mushrooms in various different forms. Daniel is trying to get as much fungal life in the garden to help the plant to survive the threat of our changing climate.

Thanks everyone for watching and listening, join us again next week for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚

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We start as always with a quick chat with George and a garden question, this week all about which species of plants that provide all the food for the human race.

Tonight’s guest is definitely living the dream, living off grid in a sustainable cabin in the woods. Built from wood milled from the trees.

How incredible for Marcus to have played and made dens in the woodland as a kid then go on to build his own house for his family in the same woodland.

It was also great to hear about the community garden that they are part of that helps them share skills and labour with the added return of fresh vegetables.

I can’t wait to see the greenhouse come together and the bio digester. It’s great to see someone living sustainably and comfortably with the mod cons we have all got used too.

Make sure you give Marcus a follow and also check out the episode of @granddesignstv

Thanks everyone for watching and listening, join us again next week for another fantastic guest 💚

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We started as we always do with a quick chat with George and his garden question, this week about snails. What a fabulous fact I don’t think many people knew.

Tonight we have Josh Taylor who is a garden designer and consultant at the moment but he has had some fantastic experiences in his career including at Great Dixter.

He is also trying to highlight some really serious problems in horticulture firstly the pay which for the amount of skill that is involved and years that it takes to acquire those skills should be a lot higher. Then the much more but possibly related subject suicide, and the statistics are startling.

We also chatted about how organic gardening is not just better for the planet but also more cost effective.

The climate crisis is also another subject that can not be denied by people on the front line seeing the changes in front of our very eyes. Josh describes this past year as his most challenging in horticulture.

Check out Josh’s substack https://substack.com/@thelongborder?utm_id=97760_v0_s00_e0_tv3

Thanks everyone for watching, listening and contributing to the chat as ever join us again next week for another one.

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We start with George Christmas list before we actually get on to some garden chat and George’s garden question, this week about sugar cane 🦯

What a pleasure to have Izzy on again and to talk to him about all the success he has had with his social media and more importantly about plants!

Izzy has had some great experiences this year and even got to visit the kings personal garden Highgrove with @gardenwithjonny

I love how passionate and authentic Izzy is about gardening and completely agree with him that fighting climate change starts at home!

After seeing how resilient the woodland is at work it gives me hope for the future and what ornamental gardening might look like.

Thanks everyone for watching listening and joining in the conversation and chat as ever. See you all next week for another great chat 💚

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We’re back after a week off, hope you didn’t miss us too much! We started talking about the weather obviously and the equinox, Then we got a garden question from George this week about courgette!

This weeks guest we tried to have on a few weeks ago but technical difficulties prevented it but tonight we have the wonderful Tasha all the way from the Isle of Man! 🇮🇲

Tasha has revolutionised the way we take pictures of our veg and definitely has a cult following now 🍄‍🟫🍆🥕

Tasha told us how she got in to foraging for mushroom and just generally admiring mushrooms.

We also learnt that she is a keen cook and loves to rustle up vegan delights from her home grown produce. I am eagerly awaiting her Crotch to Plate series.

Take away from the episode are MSG for the win, Tofu is awesome and check out the game Wingspan 👍🏻

Thanks everyone for watching and listening see you all next week 💚

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Short one today because we had a guest pull out, we started as always with George’s garden question this week all about a fruit with built in air conditioning!

Jamie had something exciting to show us… Honey from his bee hives! His first ever harvest! 🐝

Jamie also told us all about his trip to Fothergills, one of the largest seed supplier in the UK.

Of course we talk about the shocking gardening news that Monty Don is stepping down from hosting Gardeners World at the end of the year!

Join us next week for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚

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We start the episode as ever with a fab question from George this week all about the largest garden in the world!

Marc and Jamie discuss the shocking and unexpected drawing in of the evenings that happens every year and of course the weeks weather.

Tonight we spot the the soil enthusiast Teddy who knows more about soil than most people know about the food grown in it.

Fantastic chat that could have gone on for hours, Teddy has had some incredible experiences of how food is produced in other countries and end up in our supermarkets, yet we don’t know the face that poured love in to producing it

Farming has to change before it’s to late, I encourage you all to go and sign his petition in his bio and let’s put pressure on the EU to start the ball rolling on #savethesoil

https://consciousplanet.org/save-soil/soil-monitoring-law

Thanks everyone for watching join us again next week for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚

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A random time and day for a very good reason, today’s guest is from the east coast of Australia so for him it’s 19:30pm.

We started as we always do with a quick chat and a garden question from George, this week about Rhubarb as we were wearing Rhubarb leaves on our heads the other day.

Our guest is from the other side of the world, who is trying to help people reduce the supply chain from food grower to food eater with self sufficiency, connecting with nature and forming a community of like minded people.

What a fantastic chat wide ranging talking about how our respective countries are being affected by climate change.

Nick talked about how he grows a diverse range of food for his family and grows plants to create herbal products to sell.

He is also part of an eco community that is slowly creating a sustainable village cooperative that’s sounds absolutely amazing.

What an amazing inspirational chat about how we can all live a much more wholesome life, thanks everyone for watching and listening we will be back again next week 💚

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We start as ever with a chat with George and a gardening question, this week about a plant that listens to the flow of water 💦

Our guest had major technical issues so we were unable to get her on but we will try again another day!

So me and Jamie just chatted about our growing season, what we have succeeded in what’s failed what we need to try next year to create a more resilient veg garden.

Thanks for all our regulars for joining in with the chat 💚

See you all in 2 weeks for another guest from the world of horticulture!

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Tonight we started with rhubarb leaves on our heads, the heat is obviously getting to us, George told us all about his adventures over the last few weeks and about him being brave and conquering his fears. Then he gave us a garden question as ever! This week all about Hummingbird Hawk Moths.

Tonight’s guest is a horticultural consultant who started her career in hospitality and even to the far reaches of Japan teaching kids to ski, then decided to career change in to Horticulture.

Now teaching other people the wonderful subject of horticulture whilst studying to be a master of horticulture herself!

Thanks everyone for watching and listening, make sure you like, subscribe, comment, share, send us a postcard and all the good things that gets us in to other peoples ears 💚

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No guest tonight but we had our regular question from George this week about wildflowers and bees

Then Marc and Jamie did a tour of their plots and talked about what they have growing, successes and failures.

Thanks everyone for joining in with the chat. See you next week for another rambling chat with a guest from the world of horticulture 💚

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We started the show as always with a question from George this week all about something from your kitchen that will help your tomatoes 🍅

We started a bit late after a bizarre pheasant emergency after one was alive and stuck in my cars front grill.

Tonight’s guest passion is exotics and a jungle style garden. He has created an amazing space that feels extremely jungly using plants are capable of getting through a British winter.

George also shows us around his garden so make sure you check out the video.

Also check out George’s channel on You Tube 👍🏻

Thanks everyone for watching and listening see you all next week for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚

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This weeks garden question from George was all about how many seeds a strawberry have on them 🍓

Tonight’s guest hopes to inspire people to discover where their food comes from, and maybe choose a career in Agriculture. She is the host of Second Nature @second_natureuk a podcast celebrating the seasons, farming, gardening and the countryside. She also has a cute sidekick called Willow the Corgi.

So fantastic to talk to Lizzie all about her career in farming and how she has discovered her love for not just farming but growing food.

It was great to also talk about mental health which Lizzie has suffered from and gardening and nature help immeasurably.

Thanks everyone for watching and joining in, join us next week for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚

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We started as we always start with chaos and a gardening question from George. This week it was about bulbs.

Tonight we had a guest who’s mission is to help change the way we live as a society, he believes we should be growing food as a community and not relying on the shops.

I loved how Chay has found a connection to nature that has made his life complete and now he wants to inspire more people to break away from the systems that are controlling us all.

My vote is for him to be the next Prime Minister 💚

It’s incredible what you can achieve with a community, in less than 11 week they have created a growing space and are harvesting from it.

Join us next week for another episode and a guest from the world of horticulture 💚

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Welcome to another episode, this week we are slowly baking alive in the dehumidifier formally known as United Kingdom, we start as ever with a chat with George and his famous gardening question. Who will win this week Jamie, Marc or will George stump them both.

Tonight’s guest is a geologist with nearly 40 years experience having working on projects all over the world.

He has now moved in to the world of horticulture to teach gardeners, farmers, developers, landowners, estates and horticulturalists in the biological/soil food web approach to

gardening and growing at all scales.

His understanding of the way mycorrhiza work in the soil is incredible our minds were absolutely blown, you have probably all heard the word bit maybe don’t understand the science behind it.

Thank you so much everyone who watched live or catches up after or waits for the podcast later on in the week.

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We start as always with a chat with George and his gardening question, this week all about Raspberries.

Marc and Jamie chatted about what they had been up too in their gardens, Marc gave a Robomower update from work.

Our guest tonight is someone with over 32 years experience in the world of horticulture, specialising in creating gardens that are naturalistic and wildlife friendly. He is very passionate about making the world a better place for all and even has a petition to try and force change with new build estates to be more sympathetic with nature and green spaces.

Sign Paul’s petition https://c.org/4T4nTzV5Fm

I love hearing how Paul creates gardens with nature and wildlife at the forefront rather than an afterthought. Which also leads to a much smaller cost than traditional hard landscaping and garden design.

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We started the show as always with George’s gardening question, this week about courgette. We also got a radish update and chatted about what we have been up too.

Our guest tonight was another gardener with a luscious head of hair, he has had 26 years as a landscape gardener, and is now an aspiring Garden Designer and even won a Silver Gilt Medal for his Blooming Border at RHS Malvern Spring show this year. He is currently gardening at a retirement estate with an incredible ethos and a wealth of history.

As ever we had a wonderful rambling chat, which incorporated all of Paul’s journey in horticulture.

We even chatted about how undervalued the industry is and how poorly paid it is for the level of skill and knowledge there is.

Join us again next week for another chat with someone from the world of horticulture. Thanks everyone for watching, listening and joining in 💚

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We start as we always do with George’s gardening question this week about Radish. We all now need to sow some and see if the answer is correct.

Tonight our guest was Jack who is a life long nature lover, a gardener, a designer, a writer who has featured in @gardenersworldmag @guardian @gardens_illustrated and many others, as well as being the author of Wild about Weeds and A Greener Life. I would also add artist on to the list.

We geeked out about compost our favourite topic, and even about how Jamie plans to use goats to stop him having to use weed killer.

What an incredible stat that over 40% of UK gardens are paved over, we definitely need to start reducing that number.

We definitely need to check out the tile whacking in Europe 😂

Thanks everyone for watching and listening join us again next week for another guest from the gardening universe 💚

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We start as always with George’s garden question, this week about lawn mowers and when they were invented.

Tonight we have a wildlife expert which you would think has nothing to do with gardening but in my opinion the two are very closely linked and the more natural we can make our gardens the better.

It’s interesting to think about what plant you need to atract a certain insect and how specific those insect can be.

If you are ever in the south west and want to have a nature tour with Nick check out his website and follow him on Instagram.

Let’s hope his Birdfoot trefoil attracts the small blue butterflies he want to see on his garden, also keep an eye out for Painted lady butterflies as it’s expected to be a good year for them.

Join us next week for another guest from the world of horticulture! 💚

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