I think my first reaction would be What the F*%&.. also not good tv! Really so long as they stayed away from the vegetables and fruit trees I probably wouldn't mind. we have wood central heating, I can always find a use for a good deck
Yesterday we uncovered an oval "bed" slightly narrower at one end than the other. (There is a local joke that the previous occupant of my house buried his 1st missus in the rose garden...but it is really a joke told to put the wind up some nosey children). It was suggested that we could "plant" a human bone and get the police in to dig it over for us! Trouble is no-one was willing to sacrifice any bits of themselves. Never occured to us to send for Groundforce...funny that!
shake Alan's hand, then ask him what the hell he did and tell him to put it back the way it was. but he could leave the nice expensive plants....in pots so i could plant them where i wanted.
Actually, I have lived here for 30 years and have a lovely garden but it is large by modern standards and I haven't the time, money or strength to do all I would like. Also, living in the Isle of Wight, it's difficult and expensive to buy many of the plants I'd like. It's inclined to be waterlogged but drainage would cost many thousands and require a team with heavy machinery. Alan is welcome if he wants a challenge.
The very moving programmes are where the family have had a greatly hard time of it (lost a child to cancer) and have not had the energy or time to do anything with their garden. Then all family and friends pitch in to help and the Beeb (or whoever) fund a massive overhaul. It is lovely, but I always think gardening is 95% maintenance, so it's a bit of a bane to give to a family - who now have decks to oil and lawns to mow and pots to water. But makes for good TV.
I suppose a gardening forum isn't the best to ask my poll question a group of non-gardeners would have produced a different result. As in politics, a successful politician never asks the public a question unless they know what the answer is going to be. Well that's the theory anyway.
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It was suggested that we could "plant" a human bone and get the police in to dig it over for us! Trouble is no-one was willing to sacrifice any bits of themselves.
Never occured to us to send for Groundforce...funny that!
As in politics, a successful politician never asks the public a question unless they know what the answer is going to be. Well that's the theory anyway.