I liked it when the Gravetye gardener offered some bindweed cuttings to Adam 😄. I thought a stay at the hotel there would be good, but then I saw the price and changed my mind.
Not my sort of episode, mind that must be the 5th time at least I've seen Gravetye on a gardening program/chefy program in the last year. Fantastic free advertising for the hotel and restaurant. We looked
8 pm tonight. (Assuming the schedules are unchanged).
" In this special episode, Rachel de Thame and Arit Anderson explore the role gardeners can play in having a positive impact on wildlife in their gardens, allotments and communal green spaces.
Nick Bailey meets an entomologist on a mission to change our perceptions of common garden pests, Kate Bradbury shows how she gardens in harmony with wildlife on her allotment, and there's a look at a city garden where the wildlife is flourishing.
We also meet a gardener in Kent who wants to have as many creatures on her plot as possible, and viewers share the joy that wildlife brings to their gardens."
I really enjoyed tonight's offering, though some of the advice was a bit optimistic, I felt. It would be lovely to be able to leave all the pests on my veg to be eaten by frogs, hedgehogs, birds etc, like some of the wildlife gardeners were doing, but if I did, I wouldn't have a lot to eat. Does anything eat the caterpillars of cabbage whites? I had to compost my PSB seedlings this year because they'd turned to lace. And slugs loved my salad leaves...
However, I can vouch for the huge increase in a great variety of insects, in a relatively short time, if you increase the diversity of plants in the garden. The meadow has made an immense difference.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Yes I thought tonight's programme was one of the most enjoyable ever. I think they should give Rachel the reins more often. In fact, come to think of it, the reason I enjoyed it so much was because Adam Frost didn't appear at all.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
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I thought a stay at the hotel there would be good, but then I saw the price and changed my mind.
8 pm tonight. (Assuming the schedules are unchanged).
" In this special episode, Rachel de Thame and Arit Anderson explore the role gardeners can play in having a positive impact on wildlife in their gardens, allotments and communal green spaces.
Nick Bailey meets an entomologist on a mission to change our perceptions of common garden pests, Kate Bradbury shows how she gardens in harmony with wildlife on her allotment, and there's a look at a city garden where the wildlife is flourishing.
We also meet a gardener in Kent who wants to have as many creatures on her plot as possible, and viewers share the joy that wildlife brings to their gardens."
However, I can vouch for the huge increase in a great variety of insects, in a relatively short time, if you increase the diversity of plants in the garden. The meadow has made an immense difference.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful