I too love Countryfile for the eye candy of country side they cover, OK Elly is nice too. It reminds me the problems Farmers have do not change much nor have they in all those years since I was on farms and my Son still is only they have now moved to France. With Farming it was always a glut or starvation, wartime subsidies then austerity cuts then back again on the EU subsidies and now anybody's guess we will probably end up like New Zealand where all subsidies were cut off. My Relatives were sheep Farmers in New Zealand, always pleading poverty but able to afford plenty of visits back here, Saying that we did owe them, during the war years we got half a frozen sheep a year and a boxed parcel every six months full of goodies, it was a New Zealand Government scheme for those with relatives in the UK. A life saver for many families.
I have just watched this weeks GW and found it quite interesting on Lichins. I was aware get they do not harm any shrub or tree they appear on but was not aware that if they are presents it shows some sort of distress is present to the host shrub or tree.
I didn't know about the New Zealand scheme in the war, Frank. it must have made a real difference with all that rationing - something to look forward to. I know farmers out there suffered greatly when their subsidies were withdrawn and I worry about the future of British farmers. The EU system has many faults but I sometimes think the people in Westminster imagine the countryside is just a big theme park and doesn't really matter. I heard an MP say it isn't important for us to produce our own food because we can buy cheap from abroad. So that's all right then....
I love GW and it's my guilty pleasure watching it on catch up with a cuppa on a weekend!
However I am not finding this series as exciting so far, although I have no doubt it will improve.
Last series I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Adam Frost feature - he moved into a new house with a massive garden - whilst most of us are not that lucky, I certainly picked up lots of hints and tips to replicate on a smaller scale. Carol Klein also did a similar feature once with a couple moving in to a new house with a mature garden that needed a massive overhaul.
I thought last weeks was pretty poor but I think thats just the way it goes there are some things that interest some people that others don't like. I thought the week before was one of the best episodes I'd seen, still looking forward to this weeks!
GW, to me us a bit like fashion shows where you get impossibly thin models demonstrating unwearable clothes.
MD plant s things in totally weed-free stone-free filth. -who's got that?
I would find it much more interesting if we were shown how to prepare and plant up a weed infested plot . Why not guide us through a genuine renovation project? We could also have a sprinkling of aspirational,stuff. There should be plenty of time in a 1hour show.
Hello Posy, Most of the Colonial Countries as we called them then (I will now wipe my mouth out and spit) had similar schemes, and it was certainly a life saver. I had been an Ovalltinee Listening to the programmes on a Sunday Morning from Luxembourg on our state of the art Cossar Radio up to the war, then we got those boxes and MILO, I think it was Ovaltine in a different form but so good. The half sheep was delivered by the Rail Way still frozen, Dad would saw it into portions and deliver it all round our extended family an unbelievable luxury with meat rationing at two ounces each per week.
I can just imagine the big switch off if BBC GW tried to do an hour on clearing weeds then preparing the soil and planting, something a lot of us learned from our Dad's at a young age along with double digging, Rotation and Hot Beds. Fair enough the Mods and Rockers age would not know these things having found in their opinion better things to do. People keep saying there is Beechgrove who appear to do things differently I cannot comment having never seen it. GW is partly wish list for Gardeners, Partly Education, and partly just nice gardens to nosy into, that suits me and possibly quite a lot of the people watching, change it and we get a disaster as happened in the great mud bath a few years back. It suits me.
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Posy Happy birthday wishes for tomorrow.
I too love Countryfile for the eye candy of country side they cover, OK Elly is nice too. It reminds me the problems Farmers have do not change much nor have they in all those years since I was on farms and my Son still is only they have now moved to France. With Farming it was always a glut or starvation, wartime subsidies then austerity cuts then back again on the EU subsidies and now anybody's guess we will probably end up like New Zealand where all subsidies were cut off. My Relatives were sheep Farmers in New Zealand, always pleading poverty but able to afford plenty of visits back here, Saying that we did owe them, during the war years we got half a frozen sheep a year and a boxed parcel every six months full of goodies, it was a New Zealand Government scheme for those with relatives in the UK. A life saver for many families.
Frank.
I have just watched this weeks GW and found it quite interesting on Lichins. I was aware get they do not harm any shrub or tree they appear on but was not aware that if they are presents it shows some sort of distress is present to the host shrub or tree.
They say you learn something new everday?
I didn't know about the New Zealand scheme in the war, Frank. it must have made a real difference with all that rationing - something to look forward to. I know farmers out there suffered greatly when their subsidies were withdrawn and I worry about the future of British farmers. The EU system has many faults but I sometimes think the people in Westminster imagine the countryside is just a big theme park and doesn't really matter. I heard an MP say it isn't important for us to produce our own food because we can buy cheap from abroad. So that's all right then....
I love GW and it's my guilty pleasure watching it on catch up with a cuppa on a weekend!
However I am not finding this series as exciting so far, although I have no doubt it will improve.
Last series I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Adam Frost feature - he moved into a new house with a massive garden - whilst most of us are not that lucky, I certainly picked up lots of hints and tips to replicate on a smaller scale.
Carol Klein also did a similar feature once with a couple moving in to a new house with a mature garden that needed a massive overhaul.
I thought last weeks was pretty poor but I think thats just the way it goes there are some things that interest some people that others don't like. I thought the week before was one of the best episodes I'd seen, still looking forward to this weeks!
GW, to me us a bit like fashion shows where you get impossibly thin models demonstrating unwearable clothes.
MD plant s things in totally weed-free stone-free filth. -who's got that?
I would find it much more interesting if we were shown how to prepare and plant up a weed infested plot . Why not guide us through a genuine renovation project? We could also have a sprinkling of aspirational,stuff. There should be plenty of time in a 1hour show.
Hello Posy, Most of the Colonial Countries as we called them then (I will now wipe my mouth out and spit) had similar schemes, and it was certainly a life saver. I had been an Ovalltinee Listening to the programmes on a Sunday Morning from Luxembourg on our state of the art Cossar Radio up to the war, then we got those boxes and MILO, I think it was Ovaltine in a different form but so good. The half sheep was delivered by the Rail Way still frozen, Dad would saw it into portions and deliver it all round our extended family an unbelievable luxury with meat rationing at two ounces each per week.
I can just imagine the big switch off if BBC GW tried to do an hour on clearing weeds then preparing the soil and planting, something a lot of us learned from our Dad's at a young age along with double digging, Rotation and Hot Beds. Fair enough the Mods and Rockers age would not know these things having found in their opinion better things to do. People keep saying there is Beechgrove who appear to do things differently I cannot comment having never seen it. GW is partly wish list for Gardeners, Partly Education, and partly just nice gardens to nosy into, that suits me and possibly quite a lot of the people watching, change it and we get a disaster as happened in the great mud bath a few years back. It suits me.
Frank.
You should try Beechgrove Frank - Sunday am BBC2. Covers basics and new stuff and visits and does trials and reports back.
I'm sure there's a place for both GW and Beechgrove. Love them both!
I think they complement each other
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.