Joe Maiden

Joe Maiden
Born1941 (1941)
Penrith, Cumbria, England
Died17 September 2015 (2015-09-18) (aged 73)
Career
ShowGardening on Sunday with Tim Crowther & Joe Maiden
StationBBC Radio Leeds
Time slot09:00 - 12:00 (Sunday)
CountryUnited Kingdom

Joe Maiden (1941 – 17 September 2015) was a gardener, horticulturist, author and BBC Radio presenter based in Huby, Yorkshire, England.

Career

Maiden was brought up in Penrith, Cumbria, and was educated at Askham Bryan College.[1]

A professional horticulturist over a period spanning 40 years, he appeared on numerous gardening programmes for the BBC and Yorkshire Television and was awarded the Harlow Carr medal by The Royal Horticultural Society for his growing, lecturing and exhibitions of vegetables. Maiden's work has been published in a number of audio visual presentations[2][3] He was a Fellow of the National Vegetable Society, and served on the society's judging panel. He was a committee member of the Leeds Horticultural Society.

Alongside the long-standing BBC Radio Leeds presenter Tim Crowther, Maiden regularly presented to Sunday morning audiences to the station's weekly peak audience.

He died on 17 September 2015 at the age of 74 of prostate cancer.[4]

Bibliography

Title Year Ref.ID. Notes
Grow with Joe (Hardback) 2010 ISBN 978-1-905080-79-3 Great Northern Books[5]
Grow With Joe: The Kitchen Garden (VHS) ASIN: B00004CQD5 Beckmann Visual Publishing[6]
Grow With Joe: Complete Garden Skills (VHS) ASIN: B004OAFJ1C Beckmann Visual Publishing
Grow With Joe: The Complete Flower Garden (VHS) 1995 ASIN: B00004CQI1 Beckmann Visual Publishing

References

  1. ^ "Death of radio gardening guru Joe Maiden". Yorkshire Evening Post.
  2. ^ "Tomatoes - Kitchen Garden Magazine". kitchengarden.co.uk. 31 July 2017.
  3. ^ YouTube. youtube.com.[dead YouTube link]
  4. ^ "BBC Radio Leeds gardening presenter dies". BBC News. 17 September 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  5. ^ [1] Archived 2011-08-09 at the Wayback Machine Great Northern Books
  6. ^ [2] Archived 2011-02-21 at the Wayback Machine Beckmann Visual Publishing