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 💚
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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_tv3

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