I think you're right @Simone_in_Wiltshire. That would be very helpful for people. Taking a few popular plants, and showing them from early stages onwards, as well as propagating them, with updates on how they look, or should look, at various times. That would help many people, especially those who are just starting out, and aren't sure of how well, or badly, their young plants are doing. Infinitely more helpful than viewers' gardens IMO.
I remember them showing names on screen too. Definitely should be reinstated.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It seems to me that the programme makers might do well to look at the problems that members ask about on here. Off the top of my head, lawns, clay soil, cherry laurels, pruning, pests and diseases to name a few but gardening is such a diverse subject it might be a hopeless task for them.
@Uff gardening itself is a very diverse subject so I don't see why it should be such a problem for GW to cover the main pests and diseases and how to identify them, and control them. The biggest problem would be if they dared to suggest using any form of chemical control, even when nothing else is effective. I can just hear the outcry already.
@Uff gardening itself is a very diverse subject so I don't see why it should be such a problem for GW to cover the main pests and diseases and how to identify them, and control them. The biggest problem would be if they dared to suggest using any form of chemical control, even when nothing else is effective. I can just hear the outcry already.
That's what I was saying in the first part of my post. In the 6 months that I've been a member on here the same questions are asked. I also said that gardening is a diverse subject and, to be honest the whole programme could be dedicated to problem solving but guess that would be rather boring.
Agree Simone. Seeing dahlias and rudbeckia in full bloom in April is a bit daft. I expect people would prefer to learn how to spot and protect new shoots.
It's nice to see things in full bloom but following those high-summer films with a few minutes to show what it looks like now and what (if anything) needs doing with it would be nice to have and probably more useful to less-experienced gardeners than another viewer's garden. They could cut one out to fit in more information.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We caught part of Friday's episode on catch up. I was interested in the guy who had set up his garden/greenhouse for his extended trips away. I saw he was using Quadgrow, but with what looked like copper bands, possibly to deter slugs. I wonder if he'd improvised those himself. Might have to get our metallurgist neighbour on the case.
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Taking a few popular plants, and showing them from early stages onwards, as well as propagating them, with updates on how they look, or should look, at various times. That would help many people, especially those who are just starting out, and aren't sure of how well, or badly, their young plants are doing.
Infinitely more helpful than viewers' gardens IMO.
I remember them showing names on screen too. Definitely should be reinstated.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I saw he was using Quadgrow, but with what looked like copper bands, possibly to deter slugs.
I wonder if he'd improvised those himself. Might have to get our metallurgist neighbour on the case.
I ♥ my garden.