In today’s episode recorded live on Instagram on Tuesday night we were joined by the amazing Tamsin Westhorpe gardener at Stockton Bury Garden.

Tamsin has had quite the career in horticulture starting working in the parks department, being an interior landscaper, a shop owner, a magazine writer and editor, an RHS judge and now a gardener at her uncles garden.

It was great to have a chat with Tamsin after admiring her work from afar for a number of years and having read both of her books.

This weeks Wednesday episode of the podcast is one recorded on Halloween 2023 and Marc was dressed as Batman.

We were joined by our friend JJ from the Bearded Growers live from his pub shed in his garden.

If you haven’t listened to the Bearded Growers radio show check it out Mondays @ 19:00 on Cotswold Radio.

This was recorded the day after the Chilli eating competition that we joined JJ in the studio for you can go back and listen to that episode on their podcast of Spotify.

This episode was recorded towards the end of October 2023 we were joined by Arthur to discuss the disgraceful practice of gangs going in to collect chickens from farms but the treatment of the animals during this process is horrendous.

We really need to get away from our reliance on factory farming and get back to sustainable, cruelty free, ethical, local chicken farms.

Toward the end of the episode we were Joined by last week guest Rachel who had got some fabulous news this week.

Todays guest we have been wanting to get on for a long time, she is probably responsible for all of us doing what we do.

Stef is so encouraging so down to earth no nonsense what you see is what you get, not afraid to show the ugly bit and the fails, doesn’t try to preach just loves to share her knowledge years of growing her own.

If you are part of #gardengram you will have heard of #uglygrid #powerhour #instavillageshow #cofffeeinthegreenhouse all started by Stef.

This year she is stepping out of her comfort zone and doing a Beautiful border at BBC Gardeners World Live bringing together the two very seperate parts of her life gardening and the day job.

Stef also appeared on this year Comic Relief talking about what she does for a living helping vulnerable women.

All in all a fabulous episode chatting to our friend and yours.

Today we talk to friend of the podcast Rachel

We chat chickens and allotments, how gardening helps your mental health. We also talk which tomato varieties we are growing next year.

This episode was recorded in September last year.

Sophie is a career changer formally a teacher of primary kids now a teacher of the magical practice of growing your own cut flowers.

Lots of great tips of what seeds to sow now as well as an insight in to Sophie’s garden.

Also in the episode one of Bens chicks hatches during the recording of this episode!

If you don’t already follow Sophie give her a follow @floraldayintheshires

We also mention Flowers from the Farm, where you can find your local British Flowers, link below.

https://www.flowersfromthefarm.co.uk/

This weeks episode we asked previous guest and our listeners to send in questions for us to answer, a good way to learn a bit more about us and for the audience to get their gardening questions answered.

Marc drops a bombshell by saying that he doesn’t like one of Britain’s favourite gardeners.

In this episode we talk to part time scientist part time mini small holder and new beagle puppy owner as well as a campervan owner and allotmenteer.

Marc tells the guys about the wonderful new herbal tea he has been drinking from @ivaplants

Ben gets banter from all angles including our guest, and possibly ends up spending the night in his greenhouse.

We also discuss who’s beaches are better Wales or Norfolk

Todays episode was another episode of technical difficulties as well as getting time zones wrong as our guest was from the USA again.

So we had bonus guests of JJ from the Bearded Growers radio show and Kerry @lottiethyme fill in until we got Laura on finally.

Jamie was in a dark field for this episode and Bens lights flicker on and off as we get further in to the episode.

Great chat with Laura nice to get another unique gardening journey and get an insight to how it is to grow in the USA.