Gardeners World Allotment

[albacore1854]

Knowing Joe's luck some kind soul wanted some exercise and dug it over for him, then gave him an unused rotovator that they had kicking about.Having helped Joe load up his greenhouse, the kind soul then cooked him dinner, let him have a go on his wife, and gave him a pony for the diesel.

[albacore1854]

[albacore1854]

having got the greenhouse up, Joe used it to solve world poverty, and developed a cure for all known illnesses.Which was nice.

[cambourne7]

I am sure that we will see what tonight has to show. Given previous posts from Beeb reserchers i am sure some of these comments will find there way back.

I still DONT think its an april fool!!

[Mubgrub]

Well now... I've been away from this forum for a while and look what's kicked off! Hee hee.

I wish him luck n_n  I wish I had as many helpful neighbours as Joe does, everyone on my section of the site has given up or retired, it's really lonely.   :'(

[cambourne7]

very short segment this week   :'(

[allaboutliverpool]

So all you have to do is phone Monty!

And then you get iffy advice about onions and shallots.

Someone on the forum predicted piles of topsoil being delivered and there they were!

http://www.allaboutliverpool.com/allaboutallotments1_homepage.html

[cambourne7]

Hes brining his kids next week that will be fun.

[Lauren S]

Well he did mentioned about bark under the shed decking and weed surpressant under the path......Oh and that he has/will dig dig and dig again in the raised triangles to rid of weeds...Do you think he read this forum...?    ::)

[manicscousers]

didn't really make me want to get out and grow  :)

[grawrc]

I watched because of the interest on this forum and yawned .... and yawned .... I'm awake now! ;) ;)

[Froglegs]

If tonight's program was anything to go by i think it's the beginning of the end for gardeners world. :'(

[Robert_Brenchley]

I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but GW died as a serious gardening programme years ago. Nowadays it dances round things while giving no real information.

[Plot69]

Do you think he read this forum...?    ::)

Why would he want to read this forum? He's got a direct line to Monty Don.

I've got a direct line to Alan... My brother Alan who knows buggerall about gardening which is why I read this forum  :D

[theothermarg]

didn,t see it all as I forgot again ( says it all !!) my method is to record it and fastforward over the trash saw the bit where he was given the garlic and then planted some of his own in modules mmm why? he had just seen them growing well outdoors, why not go by his fellow allotmenteer instead of asking monty (he,s very good at digging holes isn,t he! anyone need a lesson)
and no-one knows how to split perenials do they fastforward CK!!
not much reaction to last nights prog so far,but then not much in it was there?
marg

[Robert_Brenchley]

I wouldn't think any hardy vegetable needs to be started in a module now; it may be a late spring, but the soil will be warming up, and a bit of fleece will compensate for the cold weather. Monty gave a 'book' answer not one designed for the specific situation. I wasn't so critical of this episode, but I do wish they wouldn't take enough material for an hour's programme, and compress it into half the time.

I think it's designed for the sort of people who use a garden centre I visited today. Lots of extremely well-build sheds and furniture, at prices to match, and lots of expensive specimen plants for those who want to buy a garden rather than growing one. You can watch GC, learn a few fancy words to impress the total non-gardeners, and you don't have to worry about actually learning how to grow anything, so skip all that.

[simon404]

I've made a conscious decision to be more charitable to the folks over at Gardeners World - I've had to, I was running out of televisions, and bricks. Especially now that the other two presenters have put a few hundred miles between themselves and moody Monty, and he's got to cope all on his own with just the YTS girl to help him out.

I didn't think Joe's segment was too bad last night; he did his onion sets the same way that I do so I can't argue with that.

No, I reckon I'll just take the advice of one or two others on here and treat it as entertainment; it works fairly well on that level, although not as well as watching people bash their heads against brick walls on YouTube  ::)

[betula]

I liked it when Joe said "It is taking over my life"

I feel like that sometimes. :)

[caroline7758]

Monty's away for 6 weeks now  :(- wonder if they'll get anyone else in -Sarah Raven would be good to keep the ranting going on here ;) but my preference would be Chris Beardshaw!

[albacore1854]

I think they'll struggle to find someone that would make Monty look good.


What if I need to dig a hole in a meaningful way, without Monty, how will I knwo how to throw the spade at the ground.

Funny how you rarely see builders doing that isn't it.Ah yes, that'll be because you have to work all day.

[grawrc]

I like Monty! I know he isn't Geoff Hamilton or even Alan Titchmarsh but I think he does OK.