I thought it was an interesting programme - quite accessible for non-gardeners and still interesting for gardeners, plus the flower arranging / jam making tips are likely to have a broad appeal.
It was never going to be a 'Gardening advice' programme but I thought it was probably a bit light on the technique / advice elements of the growing; that's coming from a keen gardener thought and not someone who wanted to watch something that's a bit like "Great British Bake off"...!!
Always a tricky balancing act with a programme like this but I think overall they got it pretty spot on.
I will be trying to make Rhubard & Custard Curd (looked delicious!) and won't be going anywhere near the cornflour!!!!
What I did like was Hugh Fearnley-Whatsit's programme on allotments where a a group started from scratch and ended up with masses of food, including a pig!
Not as instructional as I hoped in the way of giving me advice on growing fruit and vegetables. But as with most programmes on BBC2 they tend to incorporate cooking. All the travel programmes now have a cooking element. In the end it turned into a grow your own version of the great British Bake Off.
For entertainment values it wasn't a bad way to waste some time in front of the goggle box. I think once characters grow it'll develop more.
Surely I wasn't the only one that looked at a certain teams manicured nails with confusion and wondered why you'd think them suitably gardening hands as I wiped my mud stained hands on my mud stained jeans
Agree with Scroggin and Cairnsie. Would love an hour long Gardners World,and this program didn't show nearly enough of the actual gardening and growing,which is what I was hoping for. Fern Britton presenting also spoilt it for me. Sorry.
Not as bad as expected, but a shame that couples have to be dumped each week. If they were left in to the end they would learn and probably improve and we would all learn by their mistakes too. Also what a waste of all their hard work over the previous weeks and I wonder what happens to their now unattended plots.
I'm with you Steve 09 Hugh is always worth a look his first two series of river cottage were essential viewing he did have a cow named trilby I kid you not
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I thought it was an interesting programme - quite accessible for non-gardeners and still interesting for gardeners, plus the flower arranging / jam making tips are likely to have a broad appeal.
It was never going to be a 'Gardening advice' programme but I thought it was probably a bit light on the technique / advice elements of the growing; that's coming from a keen gardener thought and not someone who wanted to watch something that's a bit like "Great British Bake off"...!!
Always a tricky balancing act with a programme like this but I think overall they got it pretty spot on.
I will be trying to make Rhubard & Custard Curd (looked delicious!) and won't be going anywhere near the cornflour!!!!
Hmmm.... OK....maybe
What I did like was Hugh Fearnley-Whatsit's programme on allotments where a a group started from scratch and ended up with masses of food, including a pig!
Not as instructional as I hoped in the way of giving me advice on growing fruit and vegetables. But as with most programmes on BBC2 they tend to incorporate cooking. All the travel programmes now have a cooking element. In the end it turned into a grow your own version of the great British Bake Off.
For entertainment values it wasn't a bad way to waste some time in front of the goggle box. I think once characters grow it'll develop more.
Surely I wasn't the only one that looked at a certain teams manicured nails with confusion and wondered why you'd think them suitably gardening hands as I wiped my mud stained hands on my mud stained jeans
Heh heh. Yes. My fingernails and all the cracks in my fingers are more or less permanently black! (note to self: buy new nail brush)
Agree with Scroggin and Cairnsie. Would love an hour long Gardners World,and this program didn't show nearly enough of the actual gardening and growing,which is what I was hoping for. Fern Britton presenting also spoilt it for me. Sorry.
Not as bad as expected, but a shame that couples have to be dumped each week. If they were left in to the end they would learn and probably improve and we would all learn by their mistakes too. Also what a waste of all their hard work over the previous weeks and I wonder what happens to their now unattended plots.
I'm with you Steve 09 Hugh is always worth a look his first two series of river cottage were essential viewing he did have a cow named trilby I kid you not