Growing Veg on TV?

[Charley]

Apologises if this is the wrong place to post this!

One thing that has puzzled me recently with all this interest in growing our own is why is there not more about it on TV?

Has anyone seen any programmes/documentaries featured regularly that give advice about growing vegetables (except Gardeners World) at home or on allotments? There did use to be one about allotment growing (a couple of years ago) that I enjoyed very much but the channel re-named itself and now doesn't seem to feature anything about gardening.

[Kristen]

The Horticultural Channel | Gardening programmes for gardeners by gardeners

weekly (or maybe fortnightly) TV program, largely about veg

[Florence Fennel]

Hi Charley. If you put "Gardening Programmes" in the Search Thread, there is lots of information. There is an excellent BBC Scotland programme called Beechgrove Garden which features equal amounts of veg and flower growing. I think it's back in April and will be on a Sky channel if you have it. Other than that you can catch it on iPlayer.
There was an excellent programme called "The Big Dig" which has been repeated about 4 times, so it may come round again!

[Kristen]

There is an excellent BBC Scotland programme called Beechgrove Garden which features equal amounts of veg and flower growing. I think it's back in April and will be on a Sky channel if you have it.

Hooked from Wikipedia, so may not be accurate

BBC1 Scotland:

Sky Digital Channel 971
Freesat Channel 960
Virgin Media Channel 862

and from the Beechgrove Garden website:

"back on Mondays from 4th April at 19.30 BBC1 Scotland"

my recorder is already set

[elsie-scot]

If you have sky, they sometimes run some older shows on blighty/yesterday- Harry Dobson ones are good - "Wartime kitchen and garden"

[domart]

I dont know if it is on BBC i player but 'edible garden' that was on BBC around a month ago was a 6 part with a lady who grow loads in an average sized garden was good because it showed failures as well as success

[Charley]

Thanks for letting me know about Beechgrove Garden, its good to know that its coming back on soon.

I have watched the war time kitchen garden series with Harry Dobson, those were always enjoyable and also the Big Dig.

They did a series called Christine's Garden which was good too, I just wish they did more about growing your own.