Out of interest, @rowlandscastle444 , do you not own a freezer? I can’t imagine not having mine, to be honest. It gets used to its full potential.
Yes, @Red maple I do own a fridge freezer. However, my garden is smaller than MDs, and he has more apple trees than I do. I can't imagine that he has just a pound or two of stewed apple each year. I have over 50 pounds with my small garden. I'd need at least another freezer dedicated to just apple. MD would need more, what with all the food he produces.
I loved the last episode with Frances. I find her garden more interesting than MD’s garden, honestly, because it has got the size what I have and I can see what is possible.
I’m glad that they don’t only stick to her garden but show her in other gardens.
I keep the fingers crossed that the BBC gives her more episodes next year.
Has there been a femal main presenter in past? I think it’s a different approach and Frances would be an excellent choice.
I also love to see Rekha and her new garden. So much love on her side for growing veggies, I hope she gets more sunshine next year.
I was shocked to see that Becky had died so suddenly. She was in the episode just the week before and the more was this news diffucult to understand. I wish the two sisters all the best.
I can only think of one high profile female co presenter in the past @Simone_in_Wiltshire, and that was Gay Search. I know Christine Walkden appeared in a few episodes, both around the time of Geoff Hamilton l think.
I recall Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithenbank from many years ago. Pippa Greenwood gave a talk at our Gardening Club. Not that many tickets sold for what was supposed to be a special event. She did a talk on pests and disease. Close ups of slugs, weevils didn't pull in the punters in the same way as flowers. Some members refused to attend.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
canyoning Bled will there be lots of lovely shots of lovely dogs?
imperiume.io I DO hope so!
It's not that I don't like seeing the presenters pets. I myself have my cat always with me in the garden, better she wants to be with me in the garden. But when I listened to the podcast "Monty on my life with dogs", and suddenly the dogs appeared barking in the interview, I said, "this is too much", and turned it off. I prefer Carol Klein's approach in the Winter episode of her Four Season series, when she was sowing something, and said "oh, here comes the cat" looking to the camera man/woman not sure if she should continue. She doesn't make a fuss about her pets.
Like last year, I do wish they would stop this mental health thing about gardening. It's not that I don't see what they try to tell, but it is tiring when I hear all the time how much gardening helps them. Everybody who has experienced really the worst in his/her life knows that whatever way we choose, we do it to get on with life. One wonders if it's the gardening that's important to those or if they just do something and it could be anything else that helps them.
On the other side, I fully support to have all varieties in the program like the 3 sisters and Sue Kent. Gardening is what (almost) everybody can do and GW episodes are watched by all kinds of viewers. Showing how people with disabilities can work around their disabilities is very interesting. It was also a good idea in 2020 to have viewer videos so that people can show what type of garden or balcony is important to them.
Totally get where you're coming from. Pets popping up in podcasts or shows can be cute, but sometimes it feels a bit over the top, right? And about the whole mental health and gardening thing, I get it; they keep hammering on it, and sometimes you just wanna scream, "We get it!" 😅 But hey, thumbs up for showing all kinds of peeps in the gardening world. It's cool seeing how everyone does their thing, regardless of any hurdles they might have. Loved those viewer videos from 2020, by the way. It's pretty rad seeing everyone's personal spaces.
Sam 37, I love watching Carol Klein, but as puncdoc said, she is too old, unfortunately, to be there for the next many years to come. How long was MD in that position, 20 odd years?
I think with the help of the others, Frances can grow into a similar role as MD had, and her approach is a good example for a different type of gardening nowadays. Her self-made greenhouse is what we should do - keeping Climate Change in mind.
With MD, I always have a German saying in mind "wasser predigen und wein trinken" (about people who don't practise what they preach). I mentioned that earlier several times about his extensive use of freezers and storing fancy plants in a heated greenhouses. Last one was only stopped when the energy bill last year was lurking around.
BTW, I reached my target not to generate any waste in my garden this year. The last and only bag with rubbish went into the bin in March. This includes the purchase of new plants which come in hairy pots only. Yes, they are more expensive but the pots end in my compost instead of the landfill.
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I do own a fridge freezer. However, my garden is smaller than MDs, and he has more apple trees than I do. I can't imagine that he has just a pound or two of stewed apple each year. I have over 50 pounds with my small garden. I'd need at least another freezer dedicated to just apple. MD would need more, what with all the food he produces.
I ♥ my garden.
Pippa Greenwood gave a talk at our Gardening Club. Not that many tickets sold for what was supposed to be a special event. She did a talk on pests and disease. Close ups of slugs, weevils didn't pull in the punters in the same way as flowers. Some members refused to attend.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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I think with the help of the others, Frances can grow into a similar role as MD had, and her approach is a good example for a different type of gardening nowadays.
Her self-made greenhouse is what we should do - keeping Climate Change in mind.
With MD, I always have a German saying in mind "wasser predigen und wein trinken" (about people who don't practise what they preach). I mentioned that earlier several times about his extensive use of freezers and storing fancy plants in a heated greenhouses. Last one was only stopped when the energy bill last year was lurking around.
BTW, I reached my target not to generate any waste in my garden this year. The last and only bag with rubbish went into the bin in March. This includes the purchase of new plants which come in hairy pots only. Yes, they are more expensive but the pots end in my compost instead of the landfill.
I ♥ my garden.