Yes, I record it and I enjoy watching quite a lot of it, but my attention wanders during the bits that I find dull to the extent that I miss the start of the next bit and have to rewind, so although I don't usually watch all of it, it can take longer than the actual running time for me to watch the sections that I might find interesting.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I find I'm beginning to doze after 9pm whatever's on tv so we always record it to watch over the weekend. I do find that I'm not as interested in some bits as I am with others but I think that's perfectly normal ... and quite often the bits that I'm not so interested in are about subjects that OH (the Undergardener who's being 'trained up') is fascinated by ... so most of it is watched avidly by at least one, if not both of us.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It is set to record every week. Friday night used to be dance class night so it's a habit. These days i find I fall asleep watching it live anyway.
Having it recorded means I can re-watch anything interesting and FF anything jungly, preachy, Monty's banana shuffle, 90% of the home videos.........
Just to be clear, we can grow bananas outdoors here but very few people seem to wrap them for winter so after the first autumn gale all their leaves are torn to shreds and they look even worse than in summer after a bit of sea breeze as had them - 20kms inland from the Atlantic.
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)."
I think one thing I'd like to see is a regular weekly few minutes looking at the vegetable garden ... noting how much things have grown (or not), what (if anything) needs doing to them now, what's doing well, what isn't, what can be done to help ... that sort of thing ... not necessarily showing how to do these particular things, at least not in detail ... (that's all available on this site and elsewhere) but an overview ... it would help new gardeners to be observant, to know what they're looking at and looking out for.
Some of the stuff Monty starts off is followed up, but I think the intervening time span is too long and new gardeners are left dangling ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I record it every week too so that I can be selective, I'm with Dove on the observing progression of stuff. Kew did a four seasons once with Raymond Blanc, very good, warts and all.
Also there should be more weeding and proper observational comment, but then I enjoy looking and weeding
"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
No, haven’t watched it since it went over to an hour. I don’t want to see other people’s gardens, I like a programme that shows me what to do and how to grow plants /veg, there are lots of programmes on tv if I want to see other people’s gardens. Then they started putting a weather report on, I can get that at anytime.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Still love it.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Having it recorded means I can re-watch anything interesting and FF anything jungly, preachy, Monty's banana shuffle, 90% of the home videos.........
Just to be clear, we can grow bananas outdoors here but very few people seem to wrap them for winter so after the first autumn gale all their leaves are torn to shreds and they look even worse than in summer after a bit of sea breeze as had them - 20kms inland from the Atlantic.
Some of the stuff Monty starts off is followed up, but I think the intervening time span is too long and new gardeners are left dangling ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Also there should be more weeding and proper observational comment, but then I enjoy looking and weeding
There's a difference between education and an agenda.
Then they started putting a weather report on, I can get that at anytime.