Through The Garden Gate

I feel like this episode should be sponsored by @farmergracy as we were showing off our sale shopping splurges.George gave us an update as to what he has been up to in the garden and a gardening fact of course, this week about pumpkins not being a veg.We talked to Georgina all about how she got in to gardening and her favourite plants, she even gave us a great garden hack involving

Fabulous to talk to Kate who managed to multitask being looking after an unsettled baby whilst talking to us about her gardening journey and her amazing garden at Hampton Court Flower Show in a few weeks time.Kate told us all about her origin story and how she got in to gardening and her love of growing pumpkins and houseplants.Marc and Jamie also talked about all the veg that's growing in their garden allotment and what's a doing well what's not doing so well.We also got George's gardening fact and an update of what he has been up too in the garden. Join us next week for when we chat to Georgina @plot_bae same place same time.

This week we chatted to someone you will know from their appearances on @gardenersworldtv and @bbcmorninglive as well as numerous other telly shows as well as regularly appearing at gardening shows. It is Mark Lane of course Mark came on to talk to us about his excellent new book The Future of Gardens which is out now available at all good bookshops, I highly recommend it if you want a glimpse in to the future and technologies that might filter down to the consumers in the next few years. It was great to hear Mark's origin story and how gardening saved him during a dark time in his life and now is a passion campaigner for charities providing this service to others.We also spoke at length about how the shows and gardens can be more inclusive for people with a range of disabilities.Join us next week when we talk to Kate @pumpkins_etc about her garden @rhshampton_showteam and much more! Same time same place

If you thought you knew everything there is to know about Daffodils I guarantee you Mena knows more. What a fantastic insight in to the world of growing Daffodils for competition!We also talked about Chelsea of course Marc talked about his experience from press day.George came on to chat about what he had been up to in the garden and to give us a gardening fact, this week all about water! Very topical.Join us next week when we talk to Mark Lane off the telly box! #gardeningpodcast

If you ever thought about getting in to bee keeping listen to this episode! All the knowledge that Mark has about bees is fantastic!It's so fascinating how intelligent bees are and how vital they are to everything in the world as we know it!Join us next week for another fantastic guest and a Chelsea debrief from Marc after a day at the press event

Jamie and Marc show everyone around their gardens and we have our last guest back to show us her lovely garden as it was raining when we had her on.Sophia from @kellyhousedevon showed us some of here poisonous plants and her amazing Cryptomeria that's over a 100 years old!

Tonight's chat was all about ☠️ poisonous plants, Sophia has created a poison garden at her family home in Devon. It is open to the public so if you are on the area go and check it out.It was wonderful to hear the history of Kelly House and the fact it has been in the family for 900 years!Sophia also runs a luxury B and B inside the historic house so if you want somewhere different to stay check out their website

Lovely chat with Donna who was our most prepared guest ever she definitely deserves a gold ⭐ for having answers to the ⚡️round prepare and great answers too.We talked origin stories and how she ended up designing a garden for @bbcgwlive this year!We also talked about the WRAG training scheme which is helping Donna change careers. Join us next week for another fantastic guest from the world of horticulture.

Today we chatted to the fantastic Garden Designer Pip Probert and found out her origin story, some behind the scenes tales from some of the long list of show gardens she has been part of.If you are going to a gardening show this year you will probably see one of Pips designs there, I can't wait to see them in real life.We also got a garden fact from George Join us next week at the same time same place

What another lovely Tuesday evening with the colourful (not colossal) Rosie! We all need some of her positive thinking and outlook on life. We loved hearing some of the behind the scenes happening on the garden make over show Garden Rescue.Join us next week when we will have another fabulous guest from the world of horticulture

What a pleasure to spend the evening with Becky, what she doesn't know about growing isn't worth knowing!Go check out her Seed saving kit it's fab and pre order her great new book Grow A New Garden from your local bookshop

So we had a last minute change of schedule so we decided to have a chat between ourselves and talking about what we have been up to.What seeds we have been sowing, what we still have to sow.Marc was live from his new potting shed. Join us next week for hopefully another wonderful guest.

Wicked chat with the awesome Susy! Fabulous to delve back in to Susys origins back in Australia and how she ended up in Lincolnshire growing her own food.It's always a pleasure finding out someone adventure in to the world of gardening and this definitely didn't disappoint.See you next week for another excellent guest!#gardeningpodcast #moongardening

The man the myth the legend graced us with and hour of his time to talk to us all about his well known methods and even some you may not of heard of before.I hope you have lots of inspiration from tonight's episode, I can't wait to read Charles new book which sounds enlightening.Thank you as ever for watching and listening and joining in if you watched live.Join us next week same time same place

Lovely chat with Nic who saved our bacon as we had a guest pull out last minute.If you want to join in with Nic's Christmas dinner grow along get over to her website grab the free guide and the seeds or use your own if you already have the varieties.How exciting that she is growing plants for a show garden again! I can't wait to see that @bbcgwlive in Birmingham.@no12_garden_house popped on to say hello after her winter hibernation to out Yorkshire Nic with her Yorkshire AF hat on

We had a few sound issues tonight but I think it is still mostly okay, I'll try to clean it up when I edit it for the podcast.Excellent chat with Thomas all about foraging and all his exciting plans with @planbeesuk Do check out his website for all his upcoming walks and you might see me and Jamie on one of them! . Thanks for watching see you next week at the same time

What an amazing chat with the incredible story teller Matthew. He has had some incredible experiences all made possible by being a gardener.I can't wait to go an listen to the album that he said was his favourite Cherry Ghost - Thirst For Romance.We obviously talked @bbcgqt and his beautiful gardens at Chelsea. I love that @alantitchmarshcbe involuntarily made him tear up his plans and start again.Also what an diverse range of notable people went to the same school as him.If you want to join the conversation I strongly recommend you join us next week for another episode live on Instagram Tuesday 19:30 GMT

Tonight we had the wonderful Mel on to chat all things gardening and wildlife and of course we spoke about her first book she is currently writing. If you want updates from Mel about her book follow @meltriestowriteastory Also check out Melissa's regular articles in @gardenfolkmag Thanks for listening and everyone, come join us live next Tuesday at 19:30GMT on instagram

Lucy's new book Grow Food Anywhere is out now at all good book shops and even some bad ones! What a delight to have Lucy on our podcast as we have been a fan of The Talking Heads podcasts for years. Lucy is definitely an oracle of grow your own and is so happy to impart that knowledge to anyone who asks. It was fantastic to delve deeper in to Lucy's back story and how she ended up where she is now. Thanks everyone for watching and listening,

We went from no guests to two guests! Marc was out on Tuesday so I we had to move to Wednesday and our original guest couldn't make it. So we chatted first to Jenny about her amazing garden her and her family have created. I loved some of the ideas she has incorporated, especially the Indian mint and planting oaks as a hedge. Second up we had Daniel Puicar head gardener at Middleton Hall this is the second time Daniel has been on and since his first appearance he had made such progress in his mission to make Middleton in to a horticultural destination. All our episodes are now on you tube and you can now get the Lightening Round as a separate video on you tube also. Join us next week for another fantastic guest

Podcast cross over episode, it was wonderful to chat to fellow podcasters @lauras_allotment_dream and @chayallotment talk about podcasting and definitely lots of gardening and allotment chat. Chay even managed to get some football chat in before the end ⚽️ Make sure you give Laura a follow so that she can realise her Quail dream, by reaching the goal her husband set her of 3000 followers. Thanks everyone for watching, keep an eye out for our next episode on instagram on Tuesday night 19:30 GMT

After our Christmas hiatus we are back, Jamie shares his health update after his surgery and we chat about my flooded garden and what we are looking forward to growing next year!

So we thought we would do something different and do a quiz for you all, there are 25 Christmassy garden related questions to answer. We do not give the answers in the episode but I will release them with the podcast on Friday. If you want to win a prize DM me or Jamie with your 25 answers, we will trust you not to google all the answers. (Santas watching

We're back! After Jamie's operation got cancelled we thought we would come back and do a few more episodes before Christmas

In this episode, George gave us his gardening fact of the week! Which involved

The longest ever episode and it's a good one! Fiona and Hugh are living off the land trying to be as self sufficient as possible. Highlight from the episode

An organic veg grower in Suffolk growing in a 4 acre farm

Wow what a chat I think we put the world to rights in that hour and a half! Ed incredibly passionate about making sure that everyone who wants to grow can grow after being told the waiting list for his local allotments was 28 years! Highlights from the episode

Tonight we talked to the lovely Steff who is in her first year of having an allotment and is also fairly new to instagram, so if you don't follow go give her a follow

Wow what a fascinating adventure in gardening John has had over the last few years! Highlights from the episode

George took over the start of the episode to tell everyone about his charity walk again and to give an update of the total raised which is £511 thank you to everyone who has donated so far it's so kind of you, the link is on Marc's profile. Todays guest was Ben who has been flying the flag for British flowers for 10 years with over 650 talks throughout the UK. Highlights from the episode ⬇️

We thought we would do a Greenfingers charity special with Jamie and Marc both being ambassadors of the charity we wanted to share a few exciting fundraising updates First we had Marc's son George on to talk about his fantastic fundraiser where he will be doing a 8 mile walk from a local park all the way in to Lincoln and up Steep hill ending up at the Castle, he came up with this all on his own. George has Cerebral Palsy which affects his entire right side of his body meaning he has minimal use of his right arm and his right leg is weaker than the left, so 8 miles is going to be a real challenge for him. The just giving link is in Marc's instagram profile if you wish to donate. https://www.justgiving.com/page/marc-ridpath-1728928103376?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fmarc-ridpath-1728928103376&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share Next up we spoke to @groovygardeninguk about his amazing plant sale from plant in his garden as he is moving to Guernsey, he has raised over £1400 for Greenfingers. We also talked more about Chris's upcoming move and new adventure. We also had a made up on the spot lightening round as Chris was on his third time on the podcast, and had already done most of the questions

Really sorry about the rain during this episode, Marc did mute his mic to stop the noise. What an amazing and unique journey in horticulture Chris has had

What an absolute treat to have Julia on the podcast tonight, the hour flew by. Highlight of the episode ⬇️

Tonight me and Jamie had a good chat about what we have been up to and what we have been growing what's been successful what's been a failure. Highlights from the episode ⬇️

Absolute pleasure to be graced with Ades company for an hour this evening, we could have talked all night! If you haven't already go check out his Down the Garden Path series on You Tube Highlights from our chat

Great chat with Emma about her wonderful boarders at the two garden shows and her journey in horticulture. Some of the highlights

This weeks episode we chat to Amy West a former allotment holder and gardener who has created a vegetable garden in a rented property. Marc and Jamie have had busy weeks, Marc attended Gardeners World Live Autumn Fair at Audley End and Jamie has been to a course with the legend that is Charles Dowding! We also spoke about the Bearded Growers hike up Snowden on Saturday if you want to donate to a great cause you can here

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

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

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

We finally got the wonderful Jenny on! What a wholesome chat! Here are some highlights

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

If you like growing tomatoes tonight is the episode for you

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 ⬇️

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 Jamie have a good chat what they have been up to in the last week and also have a Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival Debrief. Talked about in this episode

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!