Joe Maiden
{{short description|British gardener (1941-2015)}}
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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.{{cite web|url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/lifestyle/death-radio-gardening-guru-joe-maiden-1812585|title=Death of radio gardening guru Joe Maiden|work=Yorkshire Evening Post|date=17 September 2015 }}
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{{cite web|url=http://www.kitchengarden.co.uk/news/Tomatoes|title=Tomatoes - Kitchen Garden Magazine|work=kitchengarden.co.uk|date=31 July 2017}}{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWc2R4slR1g|title=YouTube|work=youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}} 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.{{Cite news |date=2015-09-17 |title=BBC Radio Leeds gardening presenter dies |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-34280503 |access-date=2024-05-31 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
Bibliography
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| Grow with Joe (Hardback) | 2010 | {{ISBN|978-1-905080-79-3}} | Great Northern Books[http://www.gnbooks.co.uk/books/9781905080793.shtml] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809201609/http://www.gnbooks.co.uk/books/9781905080793.shtml|date=2011-08-09}} Great Northern Books |
| Grow With Joe: The Kitchen Garden (VHS) | ASIN: B00004CQD5 | Beckmann Visual Publishing[http://www.beckmanndirect.com/GardenGardening.php] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221195025/http://www.beckmanndirect.com/GardenGardening.php|date=2011-02-21}} Beckmann Visual Publishing | |
| 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 |
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Category:Deaths from prostate cancer
Category:English horticulturists