We need to remember that the BBC isn't made just for us; it has to appeal to as many people as possible.
It does - in all the other programmes that are not about gardening. I think what some people here are saying is that they just want an hour a week that caters for keen gardeners. Not much to ask really!
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
We need to remember that the BBC isn't made just for us; it has to appeal to as many people as possible.
It does - in all the other programmes that are not about gardening. I think what some people here are saying is that they just want an hour a week that caters for keen gardeners. Not much to ask really!
especially when dogs get more air time than plants
I do hope they stop telling people how gardening is good for their soul and mental health in these hard times. It was okay in the first year of Covid, but the it became already tedious in the second year when each We love [month] in the magazine repeated itself and the first podcasts were all about mental strength that gardening gives us.
I expect gardening, like any other hobby, is good for mental health if you enjoy doing it. Including (and perhaps especially) the repetitive tasks.
I know a few people who say they find gardening stressful "because it doesn't stay done" - the grass and hedge grows, more weeds appear, that lovely plant that they planted several months ago has lost its flowers/leaves and doesn't look the same all year round, etc. They'd be happier with a different hobby.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
@punkdoc 😉 maybe this thread just shows that actually doing gardening is better for folks’ mental health than posting on here about it. 😂
I agree Dove especially when one's opinion is different from most others, they are then accused of moaning. It might be better to say nowt and go out and do some weeding.
I can't say that I've missed it - but I'll watch it. Some will be very good - others will be a load of crap - I don't suppose you can please everybody all the time...same goes for Beechgrove. OT but I watched the first 4 episodes of "Marcus Wareings, Tales from a kitchen garden" last night which I thought was quite entertaining.
When this thread was resurrected, I did wonder how long it would take before people began to moan about GW. But I am surprised folk are already doing so before the new season of the programme has begun! For goodness sake, either watch it or don't. I could cheerfully moan about all kinds of things on the television that do not appeal to me but I wouldn't, because there are viewers who like them a lot. Each to their own taste, I guess.
ps But if anyone dare say an unkind word about Adam Frost, I shall 'ave 'em!
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I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
It was okay in the first year of Covid, but the it became already tedious in the second year when each We love [month] in the magazine repeated itself and the first podcasts were all about mental strength that gardening gives us.
I ♥ my garden.
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.
OT but I watched the first 4 episodes of "Marcus Wareings, Tales from a kitchen garden" last night which I thought was quite entertaining.
For goodness sake, either watch it or don't. I could cheerfully moan about all kinds of things on the television that do not appeal to me but I wouldn't, because there are viewers who like them a lot. Each to their own taste, I guess.
ps But if anyone dare say an unkind word about Adam Frost, I shall 'ave 'em!