It was good tonight, I think GW should alternate each week between Monty and Adam's gardens and maybe include Alan Titchmarsh"s as well. I liked Adam referring back to planting carrots earlier in the season and to seeing his harvest tonight. Monty doesn't do that with anything he sows or plants. Same applies to Rachel's walled garden and it's progress (am aware she has health problems, I hope she is on the mend p.g) We need to see from start to finish. ie sowing seeds to planting out be it flowers or vegetables.
Monty has followed up on his tomatoes every week, from sowing, to starting to harvest. People love to put him down, which is fine when he is wrong, but.........
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
@punkdoc I agree with tomatoes, but he sows seeds of everything else, but we don't know how he got on with them afterwards ie success or failure and reasons why? Same with rose/shrub cuttings, they are easy to take, but what next? There is no follow up on soil conditions etc. That is what is missing from GW
Thought it was ok tonight, 2nd visit to the lady's banked garden was a bit much considering that there are 1000,s to choose from (mind it is a lovely garden). Wish they would go further back in series as lots of clips are from last year. Had a visit to wildside last year with a large group, we were all under whelmed by it cameras really do give a different view, maybe the hot summer had done for it but large areas were far far from finished. Like Adam and his garden but have a soft spot for Monty's more rampant wild and rambling garden, personally I'd love to get a peak in Carol Klein's garden seen pictures but would like more. Again I don't always feel that you get a true sense of any of the presenters gardens through the lens of a camera. I've tried coriander before and it's always failed miserably, I'll have a go like that so that's a goer for tomorrow.
I thought it was good too with plenty of variety. The lady with the "upper limb difference" (what a way too describe her!) is inspirational with her determination to make something usable and beautiful out of that steeply sloping jungle she had before.
AT used to present from his own garden but has now moved to a grander home and garden and another channel where I heartily dislike his schmaltzy presenting style. Much prefer the original cheeky chappy with a deep fountains of knowledge to impart.
Carol Klein did a series on her garden thru the year and that often gets repeated on Beeb 2 on Sunday morning.
Being a girl who likes open spaces as well as hidden corners of surprise and/or tranquillity I much prefer Adam's garden to Monty's which I find too claustrophobic, crammed and hemmed in - no room for dogs to run or birds to swoop and we do get a lot of running and swooping here.
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Anyone watched Gardening Together with Diarmuid Gavin? I watched the first one last night (after asking the tv remote for gardening - ain't technology wonderful)I was a bit surprised at his garden.Not sure exactly what i was expecting but it wasn't that,though him adding a huge veranda round his house came as no surprise.Quite looking forward to watching the others i've recorded.
I was thinking about asking about the Diarmuid Gavin programme @Klink ...hadn't seen him on TV for quite a while happened upon it will looking about on iPlayer. It's nice enough but not sure it has a particularly unique viewpoint except for the Irish context.
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We need to see from start to finish. ie sowing seeds to planting out be it flowers or vegetables.
People love to put him down, which is fine when he is wrong, but.........
When you don't even know who's in the team
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AT used to present from his own garden but has now moved to a grander home and garden and another channel where I heartily dislike his schmaltzy presenting style. Much prefer the original cheeky chappy with a deep fountains of knowledge to impart.
Carol Klein did a series on her garden thru the year and that often gets repeated on Beeb 2 on Sunday morning.
Being a girl who likes open spaces as well as hidden corners of surprise and/or tranquillity I much prefer Adam's garden to Monty's which I find too claustrophobic, crammed and hemmed in - no room for dogs to run or birds to swoop and we do get a lot of running and swooping here.