Gardeners World

[smallblueplanet]

Knowing you as I do sbp, you'll take it as you see fit.

Luff ya.

Right back at yer, ya big lug!

[Seahorse]

He did however show us that we could paint dead twigs blue!

I shall watch the rerun for this fact alone! Sounds like a perfect compliment to my life size flamingo and my solar powered buddha!


I didn't see GW lastnight but have to say that if I bother at all, it's as 'background' whilst I'm doing something else. I think a dedicated veg/fruit prog (that isn't just for beginners) would be much better!

[smallblueplanet]

I shall watch the rerun for this fact alone! Sounds like a perfect compliment to my life size flamingo and my solar powered buddha!

Buy Buddha Solar Lamp from Woolworths.co.uk online shop



Lol! Is this your buddha??? £9.99 on sale....its so kitsch I was tempted, is it plastic?

Actually I quite liked the blue coloured dead twigs/trees, but thats by-the-by!

[Seahorse]

[Lol! Is this your buddha??? £9.99 on sale....its so kitsch I was tempted, is it plastic?

Almost! Mine has a luminous 'halo' instead of being front lit. Very plastic. Very kitsch.

G'wan, g'wan, g'wan...

[Waffler]

Well! I just 'watched' last nights programme after all the discussions.
What I've taken to doing is recording GW on Friday nights to watch on Saturdays whilst I work. The upside of this is that I can fast forward through the bits that don't interest me (often the visits to other gardens and the likes). This means I save some of that precious commodity: time.
Well I just fast forwarded through the whole programme, save for stopping it a couple of times just to check that the dialogue matched the pictures.
Didn't interest me one iota (sp?) but that's just me; I'd prefer to see more fruit and veg, but I guess they have to cater for all tastes.

[seasprout]

Joe and Allotments.

Just to let you know, next week we see the start of Joe and his allotment, apparently on the 11th April is an hour special with joes allotment and the start of 'new' format Gardeners World.

I have no idea what that means either, but hope to find out on the night.

I dint bother watching past the first 2 mins of last nights GW, Joe came on and said tonight Design....I switched off.

[lottielady]

I am with everyone I think that GW should have more veg growing stuff which is what Monty is all about really and I expect he would like to do all the time, but I suspect they have been told to appeal to more or go. Joe Swift is a designer at heart so perhaps he was just trying to be enthusiastic about his own subject. I think the allotment thing he is doing starts in the next couple of weeks. Geoff was good but there were also all those dreadful old world types like Gay Search and Stephen someone, which I don;t think appeals to new inexperienced gardeners and veg growers.

[bridget mc laughlin]

I'm boared of Joe Swift alough i cann't wait till the alotment episodes

[Alison]

Funnily enough me and my bruv were talking last weekend about how we've both given up watching GW as we don't get anything from it anymore. Total waste of time the last couple of series, 101 things I'd rather be doing.

[Lady Jana Muck]

Gw last year was a joke; it stopped as soon as the gardening season started as the Don was off on his travels; and he came back and said 'what a rotten summer' - we know that!!! We were here!!!

There's definitely not enough on veg; I want good hints and tips and how to grow veg without spending a bomb; not how GW spent my licence payer's fee on flipping hand-made obelisks.

I didn't see last night's - but can't watch it now without the double entendres between him and Alys. 'Shall we do some humping now Alys'; etc. 'Alys and I have been turning over the compost heap' [Is that what they call it nowadays - you old Don you]...

and Carole is bonkers - literally excited about everything...calm down dear - it's only a seed pod.

I know where the gardens are and its Alys who does the real humping. My mate lives over the road from the gardens and its Alys who you see every day working. MD only turns up when the cameras do and that's usually to dig "The Ruddy Long Borders" again.

[seasprout]

Gw.

Monty will be re-developing Carols seed and cutting garden soon, he's planning a sensory garden...all touchy feely stuff with nice scent, in the latest GW Mag he joked he might expand into Joe's family garden as well.

So another total redevelopment coming up then.

[valmarg]

If we could come back down to planet earth for a few secs, there is not a watchable gardening programme on analogue/terrestrial TV. You have to subscribe to Mr Murdoch's Sky TV!!!

valmarg

[pukka.tukka]

Hi

I do not like the GW sort of specials they have had on over the last few weeks but an looking forward to the new series with Joe Swift starting a Lotty.

I am sure someone mentioned on here how it was starting to become like a makeover show and I get a big of that feeling too, that they are now forever trying to change areas.

I suppose I am quite young in GW terms and only really started watching from the AT days, was not even in to gardening then, but love to watch the repeats on sky and love the GH ones. His shows were always exciting to watch and I have learnt so much.

I think my In-laws find it funny when I go around and talk about the GH GW and tell them what he has been up to/building, in fact my Fil is building my a GH cloche for the Lotty, as they saw them when they were first shown. I think they find it strange I am looking backwards for advice on gardening and not from the modern day presenters.

[Headfry]

I too mourn the passing of GW......what have they done to it???? utter madness

[moggssue]

GW used to be one of my fav tv programmes. I dont watch much TV but did used to look forward to settling down with GW - now I record it and fast forward the bits I'm not interested in, which seems to be just about everything at the mo - maybe I'm getting old and jaded?!