Joe Maiden is a well known gardener, horticulturist, author and BBC Radio presenter based in Huby

Huby, Harrogate

Huby is a village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England about five miles south-west of Harrogate.The village is on the A658 between Otley and Harrogate. It is served by Weeton railway station on the line which links Leeds with Harrogate...

 , Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. Brought up in Penrith in Cumbria he was educated at Askham Bryan College

Askham Bryan College

Askham Bryan College is a specialist landbased college based in Askham Bryan, York, England. It also has centres in Thirsk, Bedale, Harrogate, Guisborough, Bradford, Wakefield Scarborough and Penrith....

.

A professional horticulturist over a period spanning 40 years, he has appeared on numerous gardening programmes for the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 and Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

 and was awarded the Harlow Carr medal by The Royal Horticultural Society

Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804 in London, England as the Horticultural Society of London, and gained its present name in a Royal Charter granted in 1861 by Prince Albert...

 for his first class growing, lecturing and exhibitions of vegetables. He is a real 'dirt under the fingertips' gardener, famed for his no-nonsense non-technical approach and his inexhaustible fund of tips and techniques delivered in a clear understanding manner. His work has been published in a number of audio visual presentations and these can be readily found on DVD.

Thanks to his coupling with the long-standing BBC Radio Leeds

BBC Radio Leeds

BBC Radio Leeds is the BBC Local Radio service for the English metropolitan county of West Yorkshire.- Frequencies :It broadcasts from its studios at St...

 presenter Tim Crowther

Tim Crowther (BBC Radio Leeds)

Tim Crowther has presented for BBC Radio Leeds since the late 1970s, whilst he was still a student at the City of Leeds College of Music...

,
Joe Maiden is known throughout the North of England and is much beloved by his and Tim's regular Sunday morning audiences (BBC Radio Leeds, Sundays, 9am - noon), where the two have found a light-hearted but informative presentation style that delivers the station's weekly peak audience.

Currently Joe is a National Vegetable Society judge and fellow of the society, as well as being a committee member of the Leeds Horticultural Society.