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Post by wilbarra on Oct 1, 2016 11:03:35 GMT
just read that the great kitchen gardener and tv chef hugh fearnley- whittingstall has a new campaign going. from what i make out we now have to go and raid supermarket skips and rubbish tips and salvage the vegetables that are thrown there by the supermarkets. last year we heard the poor old dear charlie Dimmock stating that cutting all allotment plots in half was the way to solve the waiting list problem for allotments. anybody with the smallest degree of allotment knowledge knows this is not the answer. another expert (  ?) a couple of years ago , suggested it would be a good idea to use the green spaces left by councils such as roundabouts and the like and grow vegetables on. good idea i suppose until someone steps back and admires their work. then we have the tv expert of all t.v experts coming on television every so often and expelling his great knowledge ( ) on allotments to the unwary on the way to run an allotment plot. is there anybody apart from monty Don and caroline kline on television these days that has actually dirtied their hands on an allotment patch let alone know how to cultivate one? |
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Post by Stuart@AmericaLane on Oct 8, 2016 18:37:59 GMT
What do you think of Beechgrove Garden? I'm only young (relatively speaking) so cut me some slack if I might offend but I quite like Beechgrove.  . It seems fairly old school and laid back and just useful gardening advice. Looks like they grow their own stuff to me up there. |
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Post by jane on Oct 17, 2016 7:18:46 GMT
I agree that Monty and Carol are probably the favourites and most experienced well known tv experts just now. I particularly like Monty!!
Beechgrove is good Stuart isnt it, yes quite old school and "normal" gardening. I like the banter between them - and yes, they seem to know what they are talking about. I haven't seen it much - just happened upon it. Is it mainly daytime now?
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Post by Stuart@AmericaLane on Oct 17, 2016 8:33:54 GMT
I watch Beechgrove on iplayer. It comes out on a thursday north of the border but not sure what time. It is usually ready to watch by thursday evening.
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Post by wilbarra on Oct 30, 2016 9:08:21 GMT
my grandaughter lent me a dvd of the beechgrove
programme.
i think it must be one of the early series
Must say i agree with you, Jane and Stuart, its good
stuff and it is full of basic gardening tips.
I think christine Waldren has taken over the Sunday
morning spot now with repeats of her midweek afternoon
show.
Wish they would bring back the series she did some
years ago about her and her allotment.
That was good television as well.
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Post by wilbarra on Nov 2, 2016 9:09:31 GMT
When we think of gardening experts we all think of people that made their
name in the horticultral world either through their television or radio
work.
But there are people who became famous through other fields and then found
a second career in gardening.
such as:
Pop star and daughter of Marty,
KIM WILDE.
She started her television gardening carrier,i believe,on daytime television
and became sought after by the press to write very informed and interesting
pieces for them.
I understand some of her stuff is going to be repeated on daytime television
if it is it will be well worth a watch.
Another surprise contributor to the gardening world was Eric Morcombe partner
"Little Ern"
ERNIE WISE.
His weekly gardening column in The News Of The World was read avidily by
keen gardeners all over the country.
As was
LES DAWSON.
Who wrote about his adventures and conflicts with his part time gardener in
such a funny way that one forgot there was a great deal of good sound gardening
advice among the humour.
GEORGE HARRISON
Although never writing or talking about gardening was a very keen gardener
and along with his wife did most of the work in their garden when the Beatles
broke up.
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Post by Stuart@AmericaLane on Nov 2, 2016 17:57:57 GMT
I knew about Kim Wilde but not the others. Interesting and I guess celebs are no different to the rest of us in that many people find a joy in growing stuff or creating a garden. I was wracking my brain for my own examples. All I could come up with was Tim Flowers the ex England and Blackburn goal keeper. Apparently his nickname was Arthur as in Arthur Fowler from Eastenders who liked a bit of allotmenteering. Didn't he get caught with his lady friend in the allotment shed I think? Arthur that is not Tim.
Back to broadcasts as the clocks change so do all the TV gardening shows seem to come to an end. In desperation to fill the gap I've turned to Gardeners Question Time and it seems there are hundreds of back episodes on the BBC website that will keep me busy for a while. I've never really paid it much attention before. So far strikes me as a bit of a mix as some of the questions are really quite basic like why have my tomatoes gone all brown and started to die but there are some good other bits and they often do a tour or talk about some garden or other in between the questions.
Any one going to see Joe Swift talk at Clair Hall next week? I am. Can't say I'm a fan of his but some of my new colleges are going so I thought I would tag along.
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Post by murrayc on Nov 2, 2016 18:57:11 GMT
I knew about Kim Wilde but not the others. Interesting and I guess celebs are no different to the rest of us in that many people find a joy in growing stuff or creating a garden. I was wracking my brain for my own examples. All I could come up with was Tim Flowers the ex England and Blackburn goal keeper. Apparently his nickname was Arthur as in Arthur Fowler from Eastenders who liked a bit of allotmenteering. Didn't he get caught with his lady friend in the allotment shed I think? Arthur that is not Tim. Back to broadcasts as the clocks change so do all the TV gardening shows seem to come to an end. In desperation to fill the gap I've turned to Gardeners Question Time and it seems there are hundreds of back episodes on the BBC website that will keep me busy for a while. I've never really paid it much attention before. So far strikes me as a bit of a mix as some of the questions are really quite basic like why have my tomatoes gone all brown and started to die but there are some good other bits and they often do a tour or talk about some garden or other in between the questions. Any one going to see Joe Swift talk at Clair Hall next week? I am. Can't say I'm a fan of his but some of my new colleges are going so I thought I would tag along.I didn't know that but will try to get along if I can, It is next Wednesday at 9 pm www.placesforpeopleleisure.org/centres/clair-hall/joe-swift---a-man-about-the-gardenTrivia corner: Joe Swift's dad is the well-known actor Clive Swift, whose long career was probably, and ironically, notorious for his role as Hyacinth Bucket's long-suffering husband in Keeping Up Appearances.  His mother is the equally distinguished novelist Margaret Drabble, now the wife of the biographer Sir Michael Holroyd. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Drabble |
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Post by bridgey on Nov 2, 2016 19:19:47 GMT
Another name to add to the list
Harold MacMillan knew a thing or
two about gardening.
and the queen mum was known to be
very much hands on when it came to
gardening
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. It seems fairly old school and laid back and just useful gardening advice. Looks like they grow their own stuff to me up there.
