Through The Garden Gate

Wow what a chat I think we put the world to rights in that hour and a half! Ed incredibly passionate about making sure that everyone who wants to grow can grow after being told the waiting list for his local allotments was 28 years!

Highlights from the episode

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🏢 From marketing to confounding @rootsallotments

💚 Convincing his family to let him grow food in the garden during lockdown.

🍺 Instead of going to the pub they came up with the idea to grow food together as a uplifting activity.

🌸 Selling out of subscriptions before even having the plots set up

🌍 How to save the world one plot at a time 👍🏻

Thank you everyone for listening, check out our next episode live at 19:30 GMT on instagram next Tuesday for another guest from the world of horticultural 💚

Tonight we talked to the lovely Steff who is in her first year of having an allotment and is also fairly new to instagram, so if you don’t follow go give her a follow 👍🏻

Highlights from tonight’s episode 👇🏻

🍆 The Italian name Steff calls Aubergines is so much nicer that the English or American.

🌳 We spoke a lot about @rootsallotments

🌱 Steff told us about her successes this year

🫛 What she is hoping to grow more of next year

🍽️ All about her favourite plot to plate recipes

Thanks everyone for listening join us next week for another wonderful guest from the world of horticulture 💚

Wow what a fascinating adventure in gardening John has had over the last few years!

Highlights from the episode

🐝 We obviously covered Bees a lot!

🏡 John told us all about his renovation journey since buying his new home.

🚚 The fact he had more plants when he moved that furniture 😂

🦌 John told us about the biggest threat to his new garden.

🧠 John’s day job as a Professor of Neoscience.

Thanks for listening everyone, don’t forget you can watch our episodes live on instagram every Tuesday night at 19:30 GMT with another fantastic guest from the world of horticulture 🫶🏻

George took over the start of the episode to tell everyone about his charity walk again and to give an update of the total raised which is £511 thank you to everyone who has donated so far it’s so kind of you, the link is on Marc’s profile.

Todays guest was Ben who has been flying the flag for British flowers for 10 years with over 650 talks throughout the UK.

Highlights from the episode

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🧹Ben told us how he helped tidy up the damage from the big storm in 1987

🕷️How they deal with pests and dieseases

🪵 What they use to heat their greenhouse

🏪 Why you definitely shouldn’t buy flowers from a supermarket

🇬🇧Why British flowers are better than any others!

Thanks everyone for listening, join us in n Tuesday live on instagram or see you here next week 🎧

We thought we would do a Greenfingers charity special with Jamie and Marc both being ambassadors of the charity we wanted to share a few exciting fundraising updates

First we had Marc’s son George on to talk about his fantastic fundraiser where he will be doing a 8 mile walk from a local park all the way in to Lincoln and up Steep hill ending up at the Castle, he came up with this all on his own. George has Cerebral Palsy which affects his entire right side of his body meaning he has minimal use of his right arm and his right leg is weaker than the left, so 8 miles is going to be a real challenge for him. The just giving link is in Marc’s instagram profile if you wish to donate.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/marc-ridpath-1728928103376?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fmarc-ridpath-1728928103376&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

Next up we spoke to @groovygardeninguk about his amazing plant sale from plant in his garden as he is moving to Guernsey, he has raised over £1400 for Greenfingers. We also talked more about Chris’s upcoming move and new adventure.

We also had a made up on the spot lightening round as Chris was on his third time on the podcast, and had already done most of the questions 😂

Thank you everyone for listening 🎧 see you next week on Tuesday!

Really sorry about the rain during this episode, Marc did mute his mic to stop the noise.

What an amazing and unique journey in horticulture Chris has had 🤯

Here are some of the highlights 👇🏻

🌳 The story of the tree he planted on his first day at work that he can now sit in.

🇯🇵 Selling Roses to the Japanese

🐵 Sharing a bedroom with a Chimp

🪱 Bringing 10000 worms in to Westminster Abbey

👻 Getting to voice a character in Scooby Doo and saying the famous line “if it wasn’t for those darn kids”

⛵️ What will be written on Chris’s gravestone.

🦶 Footpaste you will have to listen to find out that story!

Wr could have talked to Chris for hours and hours so many amazing story’s and experiences!

Thank you for listening and watching see you again next Tuesday when we will be joined by another fantastic guest 🎙️

What an absolute treat to have Julia on the podcast tonight, the hour flew by.

Highlight of the episode ⬇️

🎙️Julia turned the tables and asked us some questions

📚We talked all about her wonderful book

💚 Julia told us how she got in to gardening

🍿Marc may of asked Julia to do a crazy experiment regarding her popping corn.

🥫 Listen to find out why Julia regularly visits @pizzaexpress

Make sure you go and check out Julia’s book ‘The Little Growers Cook Book’

Also listen to Julia’s podcast with Dan Cooper Two Good Gardeners.

Thank you everyone for listening again, join us live next week to find out what we have been up to and we will be talking to another guest from the world of horticulture 🤘🏻

Booyah!!

Tonight me and Jamie had a good chat about what we have been up to and what we have been growing what’s been successful what’s been a failure.

Highlights from the episode ⬇️

🥜 Jamie tells us all about spreading his seed

🫣 Everyone is also jealous of his giant warty p….. umpkin

🌊 We talked about the crazy weather the uk has had this week

📖 We even talked about books with @home_at_springcottage

🫙 @norfolkbluedoorflowers pop on to show us her chutneys.

Here are some books to check out ⬇️

‘The self-sufficient gardener’ by John Seymour

‘Preserving’ by Carol Wilson

‘No Dig Organic Home and Garden’ by Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty

Thanks for listening everyone 🤘🏻

* This episode definitely contains pallets

Absolute pleasure to be graced with Ades company for an hour this evening, we could have talked all night!

If you haven’t already go check out his Down the Garden Path series on You Tube

Highlights from our chat 👇🏻

🚰 The story of the secret tap was epic

💚 I adore the relationship between Ade and his wife enjoying growing food together.

🫛 We need to invite Ade back to find out why he thinks a Trombonchino perfectly describes him 😂

🥔 Lots of allotment chat

💬 And we didn’t even cover QVC or drone flying!!

Thanks everyone for listening, join us on Tuesday night for another episode of Through the Garden Gate 🤘🏻

Great chat with Emma about her wonderful boarders at the two garden shows and her journey in horticulture.

Some of the highlights 👇🏻

💚 Why Emma chose Landscape Architecture.

🏠 What it’s like being involved with the design of a new estate.

📰 We tried our best to get an exclusive from Emma whether she would do another show garden.

💚 Emma shared some exciting news with us!

🌳 Lots of behind the scenes chat about creating show gardens and what happens when your specimen tree flowers too early!

Thanks everyone for listening, See you next week for another fantastic guest 🤘🏻