I’d love to see videos of viewers’ gardens that are visually appealing and worthy of seeing. There have been hardly any. What I am not interested in is videos of viewers’ cute children or places that resemble junk yards with an emphasis on make do and mend.
Given that virtually every clip the BBC has chosen to broadcast features either children or some lame tip (pong free comfrey fertiliser excepted) I fear it will encourage people to send in more of the same.
Oh dear ... where’s the next generation of gardeners going to come from if we don’t encourage them? @WonkyWomble was once a cute kid with a nasturtium patch ... now she’s helping older folk to keep gardening in the gardens they’ve made and love 😊
And this year we’ve all had to do a bit of make do and mend ... the GCs were shut and we couldn’t get stuff ... remember?
Those of us who have been gardening for years probably had much more ‘stuff’ and had to do much less ‘make do and mending’ than those who found themselves furloughed and with time to spend in the garden maybe for the first time in their adult lives.
To begrudge them the chance to share and even be proud of their achievements (some of which have been considerable) comes over as a bit ‘sniffy’ ... I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way but that’s how it feels to me. ☹️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Many of us have ‘good taste‘ @BenCotto ... it’s just that our sense of what good taste is can differ ... or even develop ... just as a food palate can develop and grow with the experience of a wider range of cuisines. 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have to admit to having very low tolerance of videos featuring precocious little darlings...but agree with Dove it's a whole world of gardening out there and not everyone does it our way. Hope they keep up the viewer videos segment and hopefully the creativity will improve and more angles will be explored. I did enjoy the subtle dig at the no dig method by Frost...the kind of silly humour I enjoy
I agree with both of you. I have been somewhat dismayed by the levels of junk lying around in some of the gardens featured. I'm all for make do and mend and recycling and upcycling but not having the "before" lying around all over the place. Unedifying and a trip hazard.
However, some videos have shown what can be done with some thought and ingenuity and if that sparks ideas and creativity it's all to the good and probably more relevant to new lockdown gardeners than a lot of what Monty does.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
They are amateur videos from home gardeners and the closest I have seen to 'real' TV. Not all of them are interesting to me from a gardening point of view but they are all a record of people's achievements and I enjoy them all for that reason.
I agree wholeheartedly with @Dovefromabove and watch them all with a lot less irritation than the pointless GYO with AT. I should add that my garden is a 'mess' partly because that's how I like it and partly because I have no second pair of hands these days.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Better glorious abundance than bare soil. Senior SIL has loads of roses in a large bed, each one carefully spaced with expanses of bare soil between and just a few primulas in spring. Bare rose legs are not attractive and it constantly needs weeding.
I have bare soil between my roses but that's because they're newly planted and we had a dry heatwave in April and May so I couldn't get on and plant the rest and then their ground cover. Plan B is to fill the gaps with nigella for now as it will look better than weeds and not mind when I start digging planting holes again in autumn.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Given that virtually every clip the BBC has chosen to broadcast features either children or some lame tip (pong free comfrey fertiliser excepted) I fear it will encourage people to send in more of the same.
And this year we’ve all had to do a bit of make do and mend ... the GCs were shut and we couldn’t get stuff ... remember?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
However, some videos have shown what can be done with some thought and ingenuity and if that sparks ideas and creativity it's all to the good and probably more relevant to new lockdown gardeners than a lot of what Monty does.
I agree wholeheartedly with @Dovefromabove and watch them all with a lot less irritation than the pointless GYO with AT. I should add that my garden is a 'mess' partly because that's how I like it and partly because I have no second pair of hands these days.
I have bare soil between my roses but that's because they're newly planted and we had a dry heatwave in April and May so I couldn't get on and plant the rest and then their ground cover. Plan B is to fill the gaps with nigella for now as it will look better than weeds and not mind when I start digging planting holes again in autumn.