Monty Dons Big Dreams Small Spaces

[Bren In Pots]

My main thought about the small holding garden was that there was so much space wasted. All that empty gravelled ground and a lawn yet only five or so piddling little raised beds.

I'm not even sure why they had to create raised beds in the first place.

[Jay-ell]

When the first couple said they had a budget of 5k I thought "I wish -£5000 at 24p a seed packet"

When Monty said you could double that and not be extravagant I nearly choked

[arpoet]

When the first couple said they had a budget of 5k I thought "I wish -£5000 at 24p a seed packet"

When Monty said you could double that and not be extravagant I nearly choked

Yea, that's when I turned it off... If they had 5 grand to spare they should have spent it on the house first. I bet most of us on here could have (and would love to have) done that garden job for far far less.

[skeggijon]

I love gardening programmes, but really struggle with Monty Don

[Jay-ell]

Bummocks! Missed it.

However, I would probably be biased - Monty could read the telephone directory, and I'd sit and listen...

You should be able to catch up with BBC iplayer

I'm not even sure why they had to create raised beds in the first place.

Didn't you know, according to the laws of TV, it's illegal to grow veg in any other way

Yea, that's when I turned it off... If they had 5 grand to spare they should have spent it on the house first. I bet most of us on here could have (and would love to have) done that garden job for far far less.

Ok, they bought a new greenhouse and built five beds - but where did they spend the money? The bricks for the path were recycled from the house, the fruit trees were already there and that hedge wouldn't cost much. The tree surgeon must have been laughing all the way to the bank.

But if you did have five grand just to spend in the allotment, what would you spend it on?

[Guest]

But if you did have five grand just to spend in the allotment, what would you spend it on?

After having my brain removed - as much as possible in the Harrods Horticulture catalogue - its soooo pretty, oh and another 5k to pay someone to keep it looking pretty

[the plumber]

one point i picked out. people on this forum say compost heaps should be covered to keep heat in. he said the opposite . its only to keep weather out. food for thought. cheers.

[Martin H]

Ok, they bought a new greenhouse and built five beds - but where did they spend the money?

That greenhouse was the opposite of cheap. And those raised beds were the luxury type, properly engineered and fitted together with coach bolts. Gardening can be pretty expensive if you want it to be.

[Rocketron]

You should be able to catch up with BBC iplayer




Didn't you know, according to the laws of TV, it's illegal to grow veg in any other way



Ok, they bought a new greenhouse and built five beds - but where did they spend the money? The bricks for the path were recycled from the house, the fruit trees were already there and that hedge wouldn't cost much. The tree surgeon must have been laughing all the way to the bank.

But if you did have five grand just to spend in the allotment, what would you spend it on?

An electric fence ?

[Greenleaves]

I am sorry but when it comes to Monty Don I would rather watch and listen to paint drying

[GardenGayle]

I totally agree with people on the budget thing, it looked nice but not £5000 nice and also that they didn't end up with a huge amount of growing space given that having a small holding was the objective, they could have fitted a lot more raised beds in.

The chickens didn't seem to have much room either but I don't keep chickens so maybe the ones at my sisters house are just spoiled and that's about the right amount of space.

I personally fast forwarded through the Portuguese garden as its not my kind of thing. As I said before I'll watch again next week though.

[Jay-ell]

Next week? You've missed the second episode already. It's on every day this week - you'll need to catch up on iplayer

[GardenGayle]

Ah ok I'll iplayer it, I assumed it was on once a week, thanks for the heads up

[Jay-ell]

Watched the second episode. The sight of all those turf sods being skipped nigh on broke my heart, especially when she said she had to buy a load of top soil, as the turf would have made great loam.

The gypsy road garden came out lovely. I do think, however, it was missing a couple of remote control boats and possibly a submarine.

[Lumpy]

Recorded it - zoomed through it this morning at daft o'clock. Won't bother again. Unfortunately me and the BBC don't seem to share the same budget, I freecycle, improvise and ammend whilst they us my paid in TV fee to create another 'jewel garden'
Cooking on the BBC is the same - no basic affordables just .....
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