"At Longmeadow, Monty adds flowers for pollinators to his wildlife garden, creates an alpine trough and plants out tender veg in his vegetable garden.
Adam Frost uses the wonders of technology when comedian Susan Calman contacts him for advice with her garden in Glasgow, and we travel to Devon to visit an enthusiast who has discovered a passion for collecting different varieties of a highly scented spring-flowering shrub.
Nick Bailey shows us how we can all attract wildlife into our gardens by making a simple a pond in a barrel, and we explore some new ideas of planting in the Sheffield garden of Professor James Hitchmough."
I'm new to this, but increasingly fed up with BBC NI postponing GW for some terrible football match.
I've given up on buying garden centre compost, either peat based or peat free. I buy a product made from a green waste site, which is very good for mulching, and sieved is ok for seeds.
I like Susan Calman very much but I thought the interlude involving her and Adam Frost simply fell between two stools: not especially funny and severely lacking gardening input.
Though what did impress me, hugely, was Monty’s terracotta pot with a plug in the bottom. Where can I get one of them? Having such a pot, and an implement that looked like the love child of a samurai sword and a kitchen spatula certainly made the task of decanting an agapanthus easier. Meanwhile, in the real world ... and we all have £400 stone sinks lying around ready for making an alpine garden! What I did like was Nick Bailey being upfront about the cost of the oak barrel though wasn’t it fortuitous he had those bricks with holes.
The urban horticulturalist from Sheffield was pretty interesting though his garden was slightly too ragged for my taste. Still, it was altogether more ship shape than the ‘strawberry garden’ in the home video. I can’t see Monty’s prediction coming true that strawberries grown up a spare wall on wire mesh will become the latest fashion. I thought the piece from Amsterdam about growing bulbs on a balcony was eminently forgettable.
In short, for me, it was the standard ‘good but I hoped for better.’
Generally speaking l enjoyed it. My OH commented that he thought Adam Frost did a good job on advising Susan Calman under the circumstances. It can't have been particularly easy,but she did make me laugh (l know humour is subjective ). I was impressed with that pot and its built in plug as well @BenCotto, never seen one of those before. Might have to do a bit of searching. The young man with his Daphne plants etc., how lucky was he? Came across well l thought.
Have to confess I "phased out" when Monty was doing his thing so will have to watch it again and pay more attention. Agree about the bulbs @BenCotto but I did think the strawberry wall was good - a wall like that would certainly protect mine from slugs, snails and chooks.
I have long since favoured the use of an old bread knife for loosening pot bound roots but I do give the pot a good soaking first to minimise shock to the roots. Works for agapanthus, hostas, shrubs and anything else I've left a bit too long between potting on or planting out.
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"At Longmeadow, Monty adds flowers for pollinators to his wildlife garden, creates an alpine trough and plants out tender veg in his vegetable garden.
Adam Frost uses the wonders of technology when comedian Susan Calman contacts him for advice with her garden in Glasgow, and we travel to Devon to visit an enthusiast who has discovered a passion for collecting different varieties of a highly scented spring-flowering shrub.
Nick Bailey shows us how we can all attract wildlife into our gardens by making a simple a pond in a barrel, and we explore some new ideas of planting in the Sheffield garden of Professor James Hitchmough."
I've given up on buying garden centre compost, either peat based or peat free. I buy a product made from a green waste site, which is very good for mulching, and sieved is ok for seeds.
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The urban horticulturalist from Sheffield was pretty interesting though his garden was slightly too ragged for my taste. Still, it was altogether more ship shape than the ‘strawberry garden’ in the home video. I can’t see Monty’s prediction coming true that strawberries grown up a spare wall on wire mesh will become the latest fashion. I thought the piece from Amsterdam about growing bulbs on a balcony was eminently forgettable.
In short, for me, it was the standard ‘good but I hoped for better.’
I was impressed with that pot and its built in plug as well @BenCotto, never seen one of those before. Might have to do a bit of searching.
The young man with his Daphne plants etc., how lucky was he? Came across well l thought.
I have long since favoured the use of an old bread knife for loosening pot bound roots but I do give the pot a good soaking first to minimise shock to the roots. Works for agapanthus, hostas, shrubs and anything else I've left a bit too long between potting on or planting out.