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 💚

🎙️Meet Emmy @permieemmy 🦑 (if you listen to the whole episode you will understand the squid emoji) Prepare to have your minds blown this is life changing stuff that was discussed in this episode. Five things we learn in this episode 👇🏻 1. Permaculture isn’t just a growing method it’s a way of life 🤯 2. You can use this method even on something as small as a pot 🪴 C. Permaculture can help to stop your garden from flooding 💦 4. Chives and other herbs will keep the pests away! 🐜 5. Growing Marjoram along side fruit such as tomatoes will make them taste sweeter 🍅 If you have never heard of Permaculture have a listen and discover a whole new world way of sustainable gardening 💚 What an amazing chat! Thank you so much everyone for watching and Emmy for her time and knowledge, let's all give permaculture a try!

This week we had the wonderful Louise on for a quick tour of her veg garden before the rain came down to heavy. She has been creating amazing spaces within the local community to regenerate unused planting spots to brighten up and create wildlife pockets in the urban environment.

Marc and Jamie have been doing involved with the building of 2 showcase gardens Kim O’briens @dahliafarmerama and Ben Shutler @plot27bristol

We also had an exclusive from Kim, Mario part of Kim’s build team also joined us. Leanne whose garden won a Platinum medal and Best Beautiful Boarder and Gardeners World Magazine readers choice awards!

How did we get to episode 40 already!! That’s crazy!! What a way to celebrate the milestone by having our first double guest on the podcast, the wonderful Jen and Richenda of Two Girls One Plot Podcast.

I have recently found this podcast and binged it. It’s so great to follow their journey in creating there first allotment plot.

We had a great chat with them and such a good laugh make sure you listen until then end of the conversation to hear this weeks code word used back at them.

If you don’t already listen to them go check them out.

Todays episode is our final episode in our back catalogue so the final one with Ben, we talk To the wonderful Lottie Newitt about all things plants!

Her Gardening journey and much more!

In today’s episode we spoke to the wonderful Jayne about her journey in gardening. We spoke about flooded veg gardens/allotments. Jaynes You Tube Channel and much much more.

Today’s guest is the wonderful Head Gardener at Melbourne Hall gardens in Derby.

It’s was great to hear some of the history of the gardens and some of the exciting newer additions that have been made in the most recent history. We also talk about slugs and pests and the natural order of thing.

David told us about his journey in to gardening from South Africa where it wasn’t a viable career to Pershore college then finally to Melbourne.

In todays episode of the podcast Marc and Jamie discuss their gardening week then we get our wonder guest in for a garden tour and a good planty chat.

We also use Aileen as a Guinea pig for our new lightening round of questions at the end.

Go over to Instagram to follow Aileen @plants_proseccoandparenting

This episode was recorded just before Christmas 2023

We discuss our favourite parts of the first 20 episodes of Through The Garden Gate, we keep it really about how Christmas is better when you have young kid. Also how we don’t have Christmas lists ourselves.

Who says you can’t have Christmas in May! There’s only 2 classic episode left after this one then we are only going to be doing 1 episode a week.

Todays episode we chatted to seaweed farmer Alexander who lives on the Outer Hebrides

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 💚

Todays episode is with the self proclaimed Tea magician.

Great to learn more about Alexandra’s garden journey from Moldova to the UK working at the Palm Centre and being a Herbarian at the National History museum.

We shocked her by admitting we have never tried loose leaf tea.

With the one and only Michael Perry aka @mr_plantgeek recorded in December 2023 Hortpreneur, traveller, Author, Speaker, TV Presenter, Trend setter, Model, Podcaster, Influencer, Man in Pants, Sex Symbol, Car Lover, Plant addict, columnist, Celebrity Gardener, Blogger and Substacker, and many many more! What a pleasure to have Michael’s time in what was our longest ever live! You can get Michael’s book here https://mrplantgeek.com/ and with the code welcome10 he will sign the copy for you. Check out his awesome T-shirts also I have a couple.

Tonight’s episode Marc goes solo because Ben and Jamie both had Family emergencies. We had a tour of Leanne’s 3 allotment plots then talked about gardening in school and lots about Leanne’s Beautiful Border at Gardeners World Live in June.

Today’s episode was recorded at the end of November the guys are still trying to record the podcast in their gardens despite it only being 2 degrees outside. Marc was wearing 3 hats to try and stay warm! Check out Spotify if you want to see the full video. Kim is a dahlia growing expert so it was great to have her on the show.

This week we had the pleasure of talking to the effervescent Gemma about her journey in to gardening.

We talked about her awesome portable

cutting garden, made from plastic crates meaning if she had to move houses she can take it all with her.

We also talked about all things floral displays.

We also mention Higgledy Garden an awesome small British seed company that Gemma works for, Marc has also grown lots of their seeds this year and they are fantastic, go and check

them out I recommend Godetia ‘Crown’

Thanks for listening, don’t forget to follow and leave us a review it helps us to grow as I hope we are helping you to!

In today’s episode we had a good chat between us no guest but we talked about allotment waiting lists and costs, we talked about what is going on in our garden, this episode was recorded at the end of November 2023

This week we spoke to the brilliant August about her gardening journey from Air Hostess to the Head of Raymond Blancs gardening school.

After technical issues at the start we managed to crack on and have a wonderful chat the evening flew by!

We also discuss Augusts magical garden at home where she has secret doors and a fully kitted out caravan and regularly cooks on an open fire in the garden.

Make sure you follow August @augusts_garden

Nice to have a fellow full time gardener to talk to this week!

What an incredibly knowledgeable guy Daniel is and the enthusiasm he has for the history of the place that he works is awe inspiring.

This episode was recorded in November 2023

Thank you for listening make sure you give us a follow and rate the episode it helps to get us in the ears of like minded people 👍🏻

This week we have the wonderful Jen from @life_on_the_lot

Marc’s son George starts the episode, I think that Marc may have some competition as the host.

We speak to Jen about her allotment journey, Strange things buried at her allotment site and JCBs abandoned next door to her plot, her partner being the allotment Chairman and her upcoming appearance at RHS Urban Show.

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 👍🏻

In this weeks episode we chat to the lovely Francesca who had recently appeared on a segment of Gardeners World showing people around her garden in Yorkshire.

This episode was recorded at the beginning of November 2023 it was great hearing the behind the scenes details on what happens on a recording for a tv show.

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.

Tonight’s guest is the Senior Edlitor of Garden Folk Magazine What a great chat with Anjee about her journey in to horticulture, home educating her 4 kids, getting chickens during lockdown and so much more. If you don't already follow @gardenfolkmag give them a follow and check out the latest edition of the magazine, and check out the website for the exciting new membership options. https://gardenfolkmag.com/ Anjee also talked about her skincare range and workshops which you can find on the website below or give @fromanjeesgarden a follow on Instagram https://fromanjeesgarden.bigcartel.com/?fbclid=PAAaYW-k5FMOKM-epUy1SNw2VWv-y4Ys7HylVdnv9WJjEjmB-aGab_r29P0Gs_aem_AdvYM7eAJGLE104TfuAAQuIMSNOOGRG-GG7PVdDF8SgCLFfePnCwm596TSCDJhSyA2w Thanks for listening gives us a follow and rate and review please it helps us gets in to the ears of like minded folks 👍🏻

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

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 💚

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.

We’re back after 2 weeks off from recording live!

In todays episode we were joined by a chicken guru @eggsandfluff what Charley doesn’t know about chickens isn’t worth knowing.

We also talked to Ben about his garden that he is doing For Gardeners World Live this year.

There was also lots on innuendos! And lots of laughs

This weeks episode, we are joined by a guest from the other side of the pond in North Caroline USA.

Amanda loves creating her own compost and the way us Brit’s say the word, she also creates the perfect habitat for the beautiful Monarch Butterfly’s.

Todays episode is from a rainy Tuesday in September last year, where we toured around Gold Medal winning garden designer of a Beautiful boarder at Gardeners World Live.

The audio and video at the start of the podcast is a bit glitchy but it does sort itself out after 10 minutes or so!

See if you can spot some elements of Adams medal winning garden in his home garden.

Great to chat with Adam about his garden and gardeners world live and see more of his garden. 

In todays episode we tour the awesome wildlife haven that is Gemma’s garden.

Such an incredible space, with some fantastic wildlife sightings!

If your not already following Gemma go give her a follow on Instagram

Join us as we explore the fabulous garden that we have all seen in the squares of joy on Instagram, in real time with an exclusive guided tour from the gardener who created it!

Not only is it a beautiful garden it’s

a functional one with areas for her you family and husband to play.

If you don’t follow Sophie give her a follow on Instagram @lookinsidemygarden

Also check out her website for seed collections and more ⬇️

courses.thegrowclub.co.uk/offers/b987bdc6-1fe8-4f78-a3bb-8e72973e1672

This week we explore the garden of @kathryn_grows_stuff part of the team organising the @gardengramball but this was before that was even dreamt up!

We put aside out technical gremlins from last week and got our first mystery guest!

Kathryn is all about the Veg growing and has an impressive veg garden.

Kathryn is going to be doing a Snake Bean grow along this year, which should be very exciting!

For tickets to the garden gram ball go to this site for all the info https://gardengram.notion.site

@gardengramball

@plantgrow

Our latest episode recorded on the 6th February, we were joined by the wonderful Alex Grows Food who has a wonderful following on You Tube.

Alex is an Garden Media Guild award winner in 2023 for his fabulous video about being able to grow your own food whilst doing a full time job.

If you don’t already follow Alex check him out at all of the places below ⬇️

Website address is alexgrowsfood.com youtube.com/@AlexGrowsFood and my @alex.grows.food on Instagram

When we recorded this episode we had massive technical issues, Instagram would only let 2 of us in on the live. We struggled on regardless and had some good laughs as usual.

Ben started the episode in his hot tub then showed Marc around his garden before jumping in his car and drove to his allotment, where Jamie joins the live.

The sunsets during this episode plunging Ben and Jamie in to darkness, there are also lots of Top Gear references in this episode, we have Ben touted as gardening’s answer to Top Gear.

In this episode we take a tour around Jamie’s garden and Award winning veg garden (instavillagefair)

There is also a special appearance from @lottiethyme who designed Jamie’s veg garden.

This episode was recorded live On Instagram on the 8th August 2023

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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What an absolute privilege to have Nicola on the podcast, this year she is celebrating 30 years in gardening.

For a career that started working for the future King at Highgrove and has included being a Head Gardener, studying to be a RHS Master of Horticulture. Becoming a mum and being a Horticultural Hustler.

Nikki is also a trustee of @gardenorganic

We also got a few exclusives from bonus guest JJ of @beardedgrowers

3 episode in a week we are spoiling you, This episode is our most recently recorded episode from this Tuesday 23rd January 2023

Todays guest is a career changer, a rose collector, new build gardener, greenfinger ambassador, plant grow champion, charity walker, his voice has been compared to Alan Titchmarsh’s, former town planner, an Easton walled gardener, autism advocate, my real gardener, garden media guilder, Mini owner, car lover, Keeping up appearancer, Winner of the unofficial garden awards 2023 and a van driver.

If you don’t already follow Chris on on Instagram go give him a follow @groovygardeninguk

Also mentioned in this episode

@greenfingerscharity

@myrealgarden

@gardenmediaguild

@gardengramball

Here is our first full length episode, this episode was recorded on the 1st August 2023 as Marc showed the other two guys around my garden. If you want to see the video for this episode check out our Instagram page @throughthegardengatepodcast

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.

Fabulous chat with Graham about all things Wool Pots and his mission to get rid of plastic pots and save the British farming industry in one hit. Things we learned in this episode ⬇️ 🐑 Marc reels off some bad sheep puns 📺 Graham was responsible for some of televisions iconic kids shows 🧶 Woolpots grow better plants than need less water and heat 🥕 Some kids can’t identify vegetable and farm animals 🐌 Wool pots reduce slug damage Thanks for watching everyone, this episode will be ready to harvest on Friday from wherever you pick your pods 👍🏻

This week we have our first ever returning guest, Chris is such a wonderful interesting person we wanted to delve deeper in to Chris’s story. 5 highlights from today episode 👇🏻 💚 Marc and Chris talk about how they ended up working together 📖 Chris talks about his experience with the RHS qualifications ⚡️The lightening round 🌹Roses obviously! 🌳 We also got a tour of Chris’s garden, check out @throughthegardengatepodcast or Spotify for the video. Thanks for listening 🎙️ See you next week, don’t forget to like and follow 👍🏻