Gardeners World

[daleclarke]

Can't stand the "enthusiastic" presenters in their trade mark clothes.

You don't mean Geoff Hamilton and his Check 'Chum' shirts or scruffy 'Wrangler' Jeans or even his Wax Jacket when they were all the rage and the over enthusiastic term 'Organic' and his Blue Peter enthusiam when he came up with his own way of making stone using peat and concrete etc...

Am I in for it now, I have degraded the God of gardening

also I am sure someone wore a dickie sometimes, I think it was Stefan.

Alas I still have a Titchmarsh 'Rugby Top' Oh and I remember the 'Barley Blue' everywhere ah! those were the memories...

In fact in the UKTV GW's they are repeating, you can gauge the years by the fashions...

I remember dear old Percy on Blue Peter and that is how I got my Gardening fix when younger...

Personally I think nothing has changed except us!

[daleclarke]

I too have given up on GW.
Not relevant to my everyday gardening.

How often do we replant entire borders?

Any helpful tips? Well if there are, I'm not watching a whole load of irrelevant junk for 1 minute's worth...if there are any..

Grumpy old man:-)

I do a different border every other year as there is always something new! My front garden this year has been changed into a Hellborus and Hosta bed after being a Rose Garden for a couple of years. Where do all the old stuff go, simply to my neighbours and family. I have made loads of friends through the front patch changing as people stop and talk when you are pottering and I swapped loads of stuff.

[Digger-07]

You obviously haven't been watching UKTV Gardens - all the old episodes, and they're as good as ever. All Geoff Hamilitons old shows too.

Don't subscribe to UKTV gardens or any other channels. But if the're old ones I've made my point.

Seriously trying to consider getting rid of the box altogether. What's the point of all the "extra" channels if all they show are repeats. e.g. shown on BBC 1 then on BBC 3 and then back to BBC 2 all in a couple of weeks!!!

Getting a bit of a grumpy old sod but it's getting easier and easier to be grumpy these days.

[smallblueplanet]

Don't subscribe to UKTV gardens or any other channels. But if the're old ones I've made my point.

Seriously trying to consider getting rid of the box altogether. What's the point of all the "extra" channels if all they show are repeats. e.g. shown on BBC 1 then on BBC 3 and then back to BBC 2 all in a couple of weeks!!!

Getting a bit of a grumpy old sod but it's getting easier and easier to be grumpy these days.

Ah misunderstood you, I thought you were suggesting that they weren't any good, it was just looking 'back' that made them seem so.

I can't see why GW can't be a useful, informative gardening programme, it used to be. It is not now. Still apparently according to daleclark its us thats wrong, not the programmers! Lol! I have no problem with garden programmes and their presenters following 'fashion', still GW seems to have lost touch with 'ordinary' gardeners.

All that rubbish spouted by Joe Swift last night, what did he 'actually' say? Did he tell you how to do what he was saying? Nah just a load of precious pontificating. I'd rather have watched him put down more hard landscape (not!).

I don't want to get rid of the box or my extra channels though.

[hawthorns]

i thought it was rubbish last night. no relevance to me at all. i would like more veggie stuff from gw.im new to gardening but i loved the geoff hamilton stuff on uktv gardens.

[bluemoon]

I too have given up on GW.
Not relevant to my everyday gardening.

How often do we replant entire borders?

Any helpful tips? Well if there are, I'm not watching a whole load of irrelevant junk for 1 minute's worth...if there are any..

Grumpy old man:-)

I've given up on it too - it's B&Q gardening quite often, walk in, spend loads (often at the wrong time of year), get in designers, plants die and you buy them again, faddy gardening driven by 'experts'.

And Joe Swift is the son of the actor, Clive Swift, he from the Hyacynth Bucket programme!

Wot you two said. I rarely watch TV anyway, but when I do it's likely to be a gardening programme. Of late though it's all been such lowest common denominator stuff that I just haven't bothered. I did watch one episode of a repeat of the Carol Klein series last week, but even that was irrelevant. Growing brassicas in huge individual pots? The compost alone must cost far more than the eventual produce is worth, what's wrong with a good old fashioned seed bed? I gave up on TV gardeners, and TV in general, round about the time that Ground Force appeared, a series which told people how to cover green spaces in concrete was just the final straw.

[mapcr77]

I hate Joe Swift, what a pretentious tosser.

GW is very naff tonight.

LOL! That's exactly what I think of Monty, or as OH calls him, "The Don"
Ironically, I quite like Joe Swift, though I must admit last night's programme was a bit dull... Looking forward to the lottie episode, on the 11th, one hour I think it'll be.

[HeyWayne]

He he he. I watched it last night - enjoyed the design aspects and principles, (but then I'm not a "proper" gardener am I) and it gave me some useful ideas about what I'm going to do with our garden.

I said to LadyWayne "there'll be grumblings on the vine tomorrow" after watching it.

It's nice to be right every now and then.

One thing I think everyone has omitted to mention thus far, is the fact that he said think about what you're garden is for - "function". If you like to entertain and have barbecues, then so be it, if you prefer to create a wildlife haven, then go ahead. That's what makes gardening so cool, every one is different.

Lot's of people wouldn't like my garden, but then that's the point, it's my garden and it suits my needs. Each to their own I say.

[zazen999]

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.

[smallblueplanet]

....One thing I think everyone has omitted to mention thus far, is the fact that he said think about what you're garden is for - "function"....

Yawn, yawn...it took him 30 minutes to tart those few words up...he made no real suggestions as to how non-gardeners might discover what they could use their garden for. Nor how difficult or easy it is to do the 'functional' bit of the plan - building the garden! He did however show us that we could paint dead twigs blue!

So now you know you can use your garden for what you want HW, bet you hadn't thought of that , how are you going to design it?

[Flummery]

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

I think they need to alter her medication!

[smallblueplanet]

I think they need to alter her medication!

I'd quite like some!

[HeyWayne]

I'd quite like some!

I think you're beyond medicine my dear.

[smallblueplanet]

I think you're beyond medicine my dear.

I'll take that as a compliment.

[HeyWayne]

I'll take that as a compliment.

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

Luff ya.