Mike, do you remember 'Fred Loaves, Bill Sowerbutts and Professor Alan Gemmell of Keele University'? - this intro to Gardeners' Question Time is hard-wired into my memory, as is Alastair Cooke's Letter from America. I think children are short-changed by 24 hour children's t.v. because having nothing better to do than listen to what your parents were listening to, was unintentionally very educational!
Absolutely - as someone who gained my degrees as a mature student, for many years I firmly maintained that I'd received my education from Radio 4.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I also love GW it's a great start of my weekend but I also think it's always over too soon. That's why I search every channel there is to feed my gardening-hunger .
Here in Belgium we got two usefull shows on atm. called groenland, and de moestuin van Wim. To bad you probably can't see it on tv. But the last one is especially very satisfying.It is a show about a guy's veggie patch. he gives gr8 info about growing vegetables. You can compare it with The edible garden, because he also cooks stuff that he picked from his veg. patch, and it takes much longer then gw. But I was wondering if that other english show will be back? With the scottish elder guy. Bah I forgot the name.. with the lawnmower ar the intro..? And I also always record the a to z show about gardening hehe
However. Yes Dove. I remember seeing Percy once. Pipe in mouth as usual. Someone had obviously rattled his cage. He was potting-up. It all went wrong, and he mumbled. Ah! bugger it, poked his index finger into the compost, plonked the tiny plant in and almost crushed it out of existance.
Wey hey......this ain't going to date me!!!
Met Percy lots of times both at *Arthur Billitt's Clack's Farm during the filming of GW in the early days and at Shrewsbury Flower Show, where he was a big shot.
Aw, Clack's Farm - I remember it well, and Arthur Billitt - but I was naught but a gardening infant back then - and at least no one could say 'It was better in the old days' because those were the old days
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not sure if I should go on about this (it isn't all that relevant to the topic).....anyway, Arthur Billitt was an agri-chemist with Boots before moving to Clack's Farm. He bought the farm for his daughter to set-up a poultry business....sadly the business was wiped out by fowl pest....this is when he turned it into the GW TV garden.
Sadly, the whole lot is now buried under tons of tarmac.
Scott I am just interested to see how Carol transforms the garden full stop being
a new gardener I will watch for any tips she shows, I just don't think
there is enough gardening programmes on tv and unfortunately gardeners
world is short and sweet, there seems to be so much interest out there it would be nice to have more on tv.But I have to say this site is god send I love the idea with the blogs which make great reading and great tips.
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Absolutely - as someone who gained my degrees as a mature student, for many years I firmly maintained that I'd received my education from Radio 4.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I also love GW it's a great start of my weekend
but I also think it's always over too soon. That's why I search every channel there is to feed my gardening-hunger 
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Here in Belgium we got two usefull shows on atm. called groenland, and de moestuin van Wim. To bad you probably can't see it on tv. But the last one is especially very satisfying.It is a show about a guy's veggie patch. he gives gr8 info about growing vegetables. You can compare it with The edible garden, because he also cooks stuff that he picked from his veg. patch, and it takes much longer then gw. But I was wondering if that other english show will be back? With the scottish elder guy. Bah I forgot the name.. with the lawnmower ar the intro..? And I also always record the a to z show about gardening hehe
The Beechgrove Garden is the show your thinking of.
Lol indeed thanks!
And is it coming back that you happen 2 know?
Yes starts back on 3rd April on BBC 2 in Scotland think it shows it in England on a Sunday not sure.
Wey hey......this ain't going to date me!!!
Met Percy lots of times both at *Arthur Billitt's Clack's Farm during the filming of GW in the early days and at Shrewsbury Flower Show, where he was a big shot.
* A dear departed friend.
Aw, Clack's Farm - I remember it well, and Arthur Billitt
- but I was naught but a gardening infant back then - and at least no one could say 'It was better in the old days' because those were the old days 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not sure if I should go on about this (it isn't all that relevant to the topic).....anyway, Arthur Billitt was an agri-chemist with Boots before moving to Clack's Farm. He bought the farm for his daughter to set-up a poultry business....sadly the business was wiped out by fowl pest....this is when he turned it into the GW TV garden.
Sadly, the whole lot is now buried under tons of tarmac.
a new gardener I will watch for any tips she shows, I just don't think
there is enough gardening programmes on tv and unfortunately gardeners
world is short and sweet, there seems to be so much interest out there it would be nice to have more on tv.But I have to say this site is god send I love the idea with the blogs which make great reading and great tips.
Don't forget Gardener's Question Time - Radio 4 at 2pm today!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.