Through The Garden Gate

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 Thanks everyone for watching and listening, join us again next week for another fantastic guest 💚

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_tv3Thanks everyone for watching, listening and contributing to the chat as ever join us again next week for another one.

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 💚

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 💚

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 💚

A random time and day for a very good reason, today’s guest is from the east coast of Australia so for him it’s 19:30pm.We started as we always do with a quick chat and a garden question from George, this week about Rhubarb as we were wearing Rhubarb leaves on our heads the other day.Our guest is from the other side of the world, who is trying to help people reduce the supply chain from food grower to food eater with self sufficiency, connecting with nature and forming a community of like minded people. What a fantastic chat wide ranging talking about how our respective countries are being affected by climate change.Nick talked about how he grows a diverse range of food for his family and grows plants to create herbal products to sell.He is also part of an eco community that is slowly creating a sustainable village cooperative that’s sounds absolutely amazing.What an amazing inspirational chat about how we can all live a much more wholesome life, thanks everyone for watching and listening we will be back again next week 💚

We start as ever with a chat with George and a gardening question, this week about a plant that listens to the flow of water 💦 Our guest had major technical issues so we were unable to get her on but we will try again another day!So me and Jamie just chatted about our growing season, what we have succeeded in what’s failed what we need to try next year to create a more resilient veg garden.Thanks for all our regulars for joining in with the chat 💚See you all in 2 weeks for another guest from the world of horticulture!

Tonight we started with rhubarb leaves on our heads, the heat is obviously getting to us, George told us all about his adventures over the last few weeks and about him being brave and conquering his fears. Then he gave us a garden question as ever! This week all about Hummingbird Hawk Moths.Tonight’s guest is a horticultural consultant who started her career in hospitality and even to the far reaches of Japan teaching kids to ski, then decided to career change in to Horticulture.Now teaching other people the wonderful subject of horticulture whilst studying to be a master of horticulture herself!Thanks everyone for watching and listening, make sure you like, subscribe, comment, share, send us a postcard and all the good things that gets us in to other peoples ears 💚