I've only just started watching TBAC - got back editions on iplayer - inspired by this thread. Really like it, but I like competition telly (big masterchef fan) so prob more my thing than for many. Though agree that too much of Thane eating - have to turn away when she has a taste and makes that face - cringe
As we said above its another TV Competition and should be judged on that basis
Its not for the allottment owners as purists but does I suspect recruit new people into self sufficency
Imagine if 1 family could give vegetables to three other families on a barter system all year round and therby reduce the importing of Asparagus from Guatemala !!!
Dream on NB2 !!!
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i,ve just found beechgrove, hosta i think you may be more experienced than the audience aimed at for gw and allotment challenge, supernoodle that;s exactly what i think when thane tastes stuff!! I do enjoy the programme, i do agree i couldn't care less about it being a competition, being pretty new to gardening and hoping to get an allotment next year i just enjoy watching for tips and relaxation
Newboy, they only sell asparagus from foreign lands because people buy them. Like runner beans and new potatoes I only buy UK asparagus and regard them as a wonderful seasonal treat to be enjoyed at the correct time of year and not otherwise.
I love asparagus and buy local here in France when it's in season (but it's more expensive) and from South America otherwise. They have to make a living there too and they can provide it out of season. I had my own bed for 18 years though, until bindweed took over.
I enjoy the Allotment Challenge as entertainment, not a serious gardening programme, which it isn't. But I think they could have made it so and made 2 programmes out of it, one being the gardening bit in more depth.
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I like seasonal asparagus too but to get the green stuff, it has to be Spanish as the Belgians like the fat blanched white stuff and I don't. I don't buy it from further away than Spain. I did try growing my own but it struggled with winteres here and was toatally wiped out in Jan and Feb 2009.
I watched the allotment challenge with my non gardening daughter last night. It was very dull this week and I was sorry to see the couple leaving as they at least tried unusual veg. Their creamy eggplant was so much more attractive than those fat purple aubergines. I can't see real gardeners and allotmenteers being indoors enough to enjoy a topiary stle flower arrangement of sunflowers so what's the point of that challenge? A simple jug of sweet peas or almost anything else is so much more attractive.
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I've only just started watching TBAC - got back editions on iplayer - inspired by this thread. Really like it, but I like competition telly (big masterchef fan) so prob more my thing than for many. Though agree that too much of Thane eating - have to turn away when she has a taste and makes that face - cringe
As we said above its another TV Competition and should be judged on that basis
Its not for the allottment owners as purists but does I suspect recruit new people into self sufficency
Imagine if 1 family could give vegetables to three other families on a barter system all year round and therby reduce the importing of Asparagus from Guatemala !!!
Dream on NB2 !!!
There is a viewers letter in the Radio Times feedback section this week which says:
quote "The Big Allotment Challenge doesn't need the 'who's to be sent home' formula........."
I think a lot of forum people would agree with this judging by the comments.
Hopefully the BBC will note the comments if they do a similar progrmme next year.
I am fed up with programs that say " Cooking wars" or "Battle of the ...."
They arent battles or wars but just another form of dull TV formula programming
Why does every thing have to be a competition
Ooohhh.......thats better friends
i,ve just found beechgrove, hosta i think you may be more experienced than the audience aimed at for gw and allotment challenge, supernoodle that;s exactly what i think when thane tastes stuff!! I do enjoy the programme, i do agree i couldn't care less about it being a competition, being pretty new to gardening and hoping to get an allotment next year i just enjoy watching for tips and relaxation
Your right edd the young ones were fab I was an eighties teenager but I did really did think felicity kendell was a gorgeous gardening babe
Newboy, they only sell asparagus from foreign lands because people buy them. Like runner beans and new potatoes I only buy UK asparagus and regard them as a wonderful seasonal treat to be enjoyed at the correct time of year and not otherwise.
I love asparagus and buy local here in France when it's in season (but it's more expensive) and from South America otherwise. They have to make a living there too and they can provide it out of season. I had my own bed for 18 years though, until bindweed took over.
I enjoy the Allotment Challenge as entertainment, not a serious gardening programme, which it isn't. But I think they could have made it so and made 2 programmes out of it, one being the gardening bit in more depth.
I like seasonal asparagus too but to get the green stuff, it has to be Spanish as the Belgians like the fat blanched white stuff and I don't. I don't buy it from further away than Spain. I did try growing my own but it struggled with winteres here and was toatally wiped out in Jan and Feb 2009.
I watched the allotment challenge with my non gardening daughter last night. It was very dull this week and I was sorry to see the couple leaving as they at least tried unusual veg. Their creamy eggplant was so much more attractive than those fat purple aubergines. I can't see real gardeners and allotmenteers being indoors enough to enjoy a topiary stle flower arrangement of sunflowers so what's the point of that challenge? A simple jug of sweet peas or almost anything else is so much more attractive.