Gardeners World tonight BBC2

oooh brilliant. maybe you should do this as a blog too hun

thanks for this I know what Il now be doing this evening

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thanx for that

thanks for the reminder, I nearly always forget!

9pm -------- I missed it again!!
Was it good?

i was a bit disappointed with it. but i have been for several months now.

didnt show much apart from a dodgy looking fleece screen Toby made which would never survive round here!!

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yes i know what you mean mookins.
wish i had done some ironing instead.

the only things I saw that caught my intrest, was carrots in a hog , dose he not know that rabbits will be able to smell them and they have been known to dig' and puting thoes things in a bin in the ground , we used to put new potatoes in a squar bisket tin in dry sand to keep them apart and burry it for christmas and the were grate ,but they were the only thing you could do it with ,you could not put the other things in the same tin or nothing was any good and even if you did it seperate when opened they were orfull, we tryed all that years ago ,and growing all those mellons just to make a display on the shed roof astounds me, what a wast of growing space, yes I enjoyed it, I COULD HAVE BEEN WATCHING CORRIE WITH THE REST OF YOU.

It was a waste of time in my opinion, it started late because of the gymnastics and I turned over to watch Have I got news for you instead. The format for this Gardeners World isn't as interesting or detailed as when Geoff Hamilton, Titch or even Monty did it. I have been watching it for over 30 years with my parents and then as an avid gardener myself. I think it's drippy and boring!! I only watch to see the interesting enthusiasm of Carol Klein.

Hear hear Andrea, i echo everything you say.

Andrea and Louise ,I have been thinking about my comments, could we be wrong, is it not aimed at those kids as you were just geting an intrest ,and adult beginers to capture there intrest, experanced gardners would not be imprest by mellions making patterns on a shed roof or the hogs or the burieing bin tricks , but think back to when you first got intrested, and it should be easer for you,I tended to be distracted helping Nore build a big boat.

I think the melons were pumpkins which was great and the hard landscaping is interesting. Young gardeners tend to start by watching people grow things from seed. There is some of that on the program, but there is also this sort of stuff at school and Childrens BBC. This format has not moved with the times except for the current trend in grow your own veg which has taken over the theme of the program as far as I'm concerned. However, I like the way they have laid out their veg garden and I am now planning something similar. There are the very occasional gems.

I stand correctedand may I humble add ,that I wonder why I watched it to the end I was that board' I belive rightly or wrongly the way to lay out a veg garden is so that you are continusly reaping and continusly sowing,with catch crops ie' salade inbetwen the longer growing crops,so that as you pick you give a main crop the room it needs,if that sounds complecated it is not ,it is just my inability to explain,

Since ive got into.... or rather been taken over by gardening I can honestly say I have tried to watch gardners world to learn ....BUT I have learnt more on here. Obviously I spend more time on here, but even though Im a newbie i find the programme slightly patronising...sounds silly but I knew bee all about gardening but the way they explain stuff like how to dig a hole, and the screen they made this week ....good lord even last year I would have been able to say thats not gonna protect from lady birds let alone Jack bleedin frost..

sorry ...And relax

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I must admit after what i read in the paper i thought that there would of been a lot more info, but now the programme has been cut down to half an hour instead of a full hour.
Ive a good mind to put in a complaint to gardeners world , and tell them that there should of been a bit more on what to do with protecting the plants over winter.
I must also admit i was a bit disappointed this time round.But there again now again they do , do have some good pointers on there.
Sorry aboput talking a bit more about only our computer went down after i was on here friday night.The old man went onto pc after me , soe we had to sort the pc out yesterday , and hopefully everythings going to be ok with it.