Through The Garden Gate

George’s garden question this week was about @themontydon as he has just done his last gardeners world episode. Monty if you are reading this George said you need to come on our podcast now your retired.

Tonight’s guest is the author of the wonderful book Dancing with Bees which is about Brigits journey to discovering her passion for bees and the natural world.

Episodes like this are my favourite where we could just keep going for hours because we don’t even scratch the surface.

Who knew there were so many different types of bees and they all have their own cycles through out the growing season.

I need to check out the bee that makes a nest inside a snail shell and then thatches a roof over the top!

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George’s garden question this week was about how many pumpkins we buy in the UK. George also showed us his awesome pumpkin that he grew in his chaos bed.

Tonight’s guest has turned what could have been a devastating diagnosis in to a positive career change that has helped to reduce the symptoms of his Multiple Sclerosis and benefited his mental health.

It was brilliant to hear about the Silver medal winning garden that he created at RHS Badminton this summer also and the fact it has gone to a hospice so it can help many more people through tricky times.

We look forward to seeing how Gavin’s allotment develops next year and what he grows in it.

Thanks everyone for joining on with the conversation and being part of the community we appreciate all of you 💚

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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

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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?fbclid=PARlRTSAUHwutwZG9mAmZkaWQWUNzS_k9ha2llnlssSY6c9VVH8WqJ9WV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp32yVSK-h6nfDe_bRb6Li230u3AWbpjSICRoN7H7B6Fxqr5moTDrPH6uHQuu_aem_J3l_N_m9a0I7h8QtJiYmgg

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