In todays episode we chatted to Sarah Wilson who is the host of Roots and All podcast which has just passed 300 episodes!

We got a bit podcasty but there were some fab highlights 👇🏻

💚 We found out how Sarah finds her guests

🌱 What she would change about the world of horticulture

🌺 How therapeutic she found deadheading pansies

🌳 How Sarah got in to horticulture

💰Why she doesn’t call herself a gardener.

Join us next Tuesday on instagram for the next live episode, or take a look at our back catalog and make sure you check out @rootsandallpod

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Todays episode is with friend of the podcast Jo, a cut flower grower from Nortfolk growing cut flowers in a modest back garden.

What Jo doesnt know about cut flowers isn’t worth knowing!

Highlights of todays episode 👇🏻

🌸 Jo’s top perennials for cut flowers

🪴 Find out what she grew up her washing line

💼 Why she bags her dahlia buds

🧪 Why Vaseline isn’t a good idea if

growing organically

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Marc isn’t in his usual podcast location

Remember the only way to join in with the podcast is to join us live on instagram Tuesdays 19:30 GMT or message us @throughthegardengatepodcast 💚

Another career changing gardener learning their craft in the most inspiring place imaginable @belmondlemanoir

Great chat with Sam such a passionate thoughtful gardener

Highlights from the episode 👇🏻

🪴Sam tells us about his love for herbs and his plans to enhance the herb garden at work.

💚 From insurance broker to gardener taking the leap of faith!

🙋‍♀️ What it’s like working with @augusts_garden

👨‍🍳 Growing exceptional vegetables as a vital ingredient to the chefs masterpiece.

🍅 How we need to all push for more veg varieties in our shops so we can all experience the wonderful flavours!

🇫🇷 Sam’s experience of the great man himself @raymondblanc

Don’t forget to watch next weeks episode live on instagram @ 19:30 GMT with a fantastic guest from the world of horticulture 💚

We finally got the wonderful Jenny on! What a wholesome chat!

Here are some highlights 👇🏻

🍑 We open our mystery packages and were surprised at what we found!

🧅 Jenny told us all about her Mammoth Onions.

👩‍⚕️ We also chatted about Jenny’s day job helping people control their ADHD.

🌺 Dahlia might have been mentioned

💚 We also got her gardening origin story

Check out wherever you harvest your pods 🫛 on Friday morning if you want to listen to this episode whilst out in your gardens 🌳

Join us next week on Monday @ 19:30 GMT as we go through another’s guests garden gate 👍🏻

Tonights episode marks a year of us doing Through The Garden Gate, we did our first live on the 1st August 2023 where we toured Marc garden back when there was 3 of us! We did 22 lives before deciding to convert each live to a podcast.

Episode 23 with Chris Jesson @groovygardeninguk was our first episode to be converted to a podcast.

This week we had the former Great British Bake Off contestant Carole on here are some of the highlight 👇🏻

🥮 We found out some behind the scenes info about GBBO

🍰 Including who eats all the cakes

💚 We had a tour of Carole’s gorgeous garden

🧁 Carole also had to choose between Cake and Gardening!!

🌳 We delved in to Carole’s horticultural

past.

Remember if you want to ask any questions

to our guests send them in to us on instagram @throughthegardengatepodcast or join us live every Tuesday @ 19:30

Thanks for listening 💚

If you like growing tomatoes tonight is the episode for you 🍅

The undisputed kings of tomatoes are our guests

Some highlights 👇🏻

☠️ We spoke at length at the best way to reduce blight risk.

🏆 The guys favourite varieties.

📏 How to get the strongest tomato plants.

🍅 How to avoid unripe fruit towards the end of the season.

💧 Regular watering is the key to success.

Thanks everyone for your comments and questions sorry if we missed any. If you want to get involved watch live on instagram every week on Tuesday 19:30 GMT

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The episode we forgot! We recorded This episode towards the end of 2023, and somehow when we were transferring all our episode to podcast we forgot this one as it wasn’t numbered on instagram.