Great episode of GW last week, loved all of it, very refreshing to be in another garden like Adam's. I love Monty (you know it's Friday night, when you hear his soothing voice, his easy going demeanour and the birds singing in the background, very therapeutic) but it's boring seeing his garden every week, would like to see the programme alternated weekly/monthly between Monty and Adam.
I was very disappointed with The Great Garden Revolution. Have tried two episodes but not watching anymore. It seems to spend a lot of programme time telling you what you will be seeing later, with fleeting snippets of film, without actually showing you much of anything at all. It also feels like it’s trying to tick too many boxes so you get little of substance - a hint on design, a basic gardening tip, a throwaway comment about a plant, a random tip on DIY and so on.
I think Poppy would be ok if she was allowed to talk about and expand on a topic rather than two sentence segments before they move onto yet more clips of what’s coming later.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Well, last nights episode was a bit of a mixed bag. (IMHO of course). Mostly quite entertaining. I even thought the viewer's videos were very good - the older fellas attitude to gardening I thought was refreshing & the women's long front garden I liked a lot. The Rhododendrum guy - not for me. Sue Kent is interesting and a good presenter. Monty and the tomato thing I've seen many times before...well versions of it. The citrus thing doesn't apply to me so glossed over that. But!...please spare me the bl++dy self righteous "we must all go peat free" lecture spewed out at every opportunity. The peat bog thing was actually quite interesting - without Arit Anderson's inference that anyone still using peat compost is now a second class citizen - but does that kind of feature belong more on a nature type program than a gardening show? Oh, I noticed Montys next target (or the BBC, I'm never too sure which) are the poor sods who quite like a mown lawn...so last year! It's all meadows and wildflowers now old chap!
Totally disagree @Chris-P-Bacon, we should all be acting as guardians of the planet and helping to prevent global warming and habitat destruction. I speak as someone who has always used peat, but this year I have taken my first gentle steps into peat free. I admit I don't find it easy to use, but I don't think I have any choice but to persist.
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Totally disagree @Chris-P-Bacon, we should all be acting as guardians of the planet and helping to prevent global warming and habitat destruction. I speak as someone who has always used peat, but this year I have taken my first gentle steps into peat free. I admit I don't find it easy to use, but I don't think I have any choice but to persist.
It's not that I'm against reducing peat use in the garden or habitat loss - far from it. Perhaps I didn't make that clear. It's the way the message is put across. Especially as there is no acknowledgement by GW, MD et al that there is still environmental impacts of peat free compost production which will only increase as peat extraction is reduced. There was an interesting piece by Ian Hodgson in Garden News a few weeks ago that touched on why peat free compost may not be as enviro friendly as people think.
Probably tempting fate, but at least we haven't had MD planting/lifting his Canna and Tree Ferns, or showing us how to prune and thin growth on a grape vine for at least a couple of years. They used to be an annual staple.
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I think Poppy would be ok if she was allowed to talk about and expand on a topic rather than two sentence segments before they move onto yet more clips of what’s coming later.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
The Rhododendrum guy - not for me. Sue Kent is interesting and a good presenter. Monty and the tomato thing I've seen many times before...well versions of it. The citrus thing doesn't apply to me so glossed over that.
But!...please spare me the bl++dy self righteous "we must all go peat free" lecture spewed out at every opportunity. The peat bog thing was actually quite interesting - without Arit Anderson's inference that anyone still using peat compost is now a second class citizen - but does that kind of feature belong more on a nature type program than a gardening show?
Oh, I noticed Montys next target (or the BBC, I'm never too sure which) are the poor sods who quite like a mown lawn...so last year! It's all meadows and wildflowers now old chap!
I speak as someone who has always used peat, but this year I have taken my first gentle steps into peat free.
I admit I don't find it easy to use, but I don't think I have any choice but to persist.
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It's the way the message is put across.
Especially as there is no acknowledgement by GW, MD et al that there is still environmental impacts of peat free compost production which will only increase as peat extraction is reduced.
There was an interesting piece by Ian Hodgson in Garden News a few weeks ago that touched on why peat free compost may not be as enviro friendly as people think.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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