Mr Fish.

[Froglegs]

Week after next its our AGM and a Martin Fish is the guest speaker should be a bit a fun.

[Froglegs]

[Froglegs]

Week after next its our AGM and a Martin Fish is the guest speaker should be a bit a fun.

Forget to mention there will be beer as well :).

[Deb P]

He was the judge for Derby in Bloom last year, wandered up my plot path to have a look around and a chat, seems like a nice bloke!

[Froglegs]

Just got back from AGM,what a nice chap Mr Fish is,  guess what he said when i asked him about Gardener's world.

[Deb P]

Just got back from AGM,what a nice chap Mr Fish is,  guess what he said when i asked him about Gardener's world.

What?! ???

[Froglegs]

If i tell ya it's to go no further 8).

[twinkletoes]

.....won't say a word..............wot did he say???
twinkletoes

[star]

Still waiting Froglets ::)........................................

Dont ya just hate waiting in suspenders :-\ 8)

[Suzanne]

Still waiting Froglets ::)........................................

Dont ya just hate waiting in suspenders :-\ 8)

'specially in this weather  ;D

[Deb P]

If i tell ya it's to go no further 8).

My lips are sealed........ ;)

[Froglegs]

Sorry you've had to wait but i have been busy. when i asked him his thoughts on GW he replied that the show had gone down hill after Titchmarsh left and the BBC put an ex jeweller in charge. So i asked him what about the current line up,"well Toby is no Geoff Hamilton is he"
went on to tell me that he did a GQT type thing at a gardening club with Carol and she  told the audience not to ask her about veg as she knew nothing about growing veg,did you not do a series on veg and you've got a book out on the same subject the audience asked," i was contracted to do the show and the only thing i contributed to the book is the forward,"at least she was honest said Mr F. Did the same sort of  show with our Joe,IF members of the panel knew the answer to a question they lean forward at the table,and if they don't know the answer they lean back from the table so the chairman knows who to pick to answer the question,said that Joe leaning back most of the evering!theres a difference between being a designer and a gardener,and what a nit rotivating in all that mares tail.
So there ya have it ...and now i have told ya I'm going to have to kill ya. 8).... ;) ;D

[Deb P]

Verrrrrrrrrry interesting..................maybe we should put forward Mr Fish as a future GW presenter candidate, he talks a lot of sense!

[betula]

Well if that is true what you say about Carol I am outraged.

I am a particular fan of hers and have bought her books.

What a con,

[Froglegs]

Well if that is true what you say about Carol I am outraged.

I am a particular fan of hers and have bought her books.

What a con,

He said she knows all there is to know about herbaceous plants but not veg so could not understand why they got her to do a program on veg.Said she was lovely to work with.

[betula]

Think I will just stick to reading seed packets in future

[Carol]

nd  who is Mr Fish?   

::)

[Froglegs]

You can find him and his wife in Garden News.

[valmarg]

Typical BBC.  Treating its licence payers (aka salary payers) as idiots.

valmarg

[caroline7758]

To be fair to Carol, when she did the "Grow your own" series, she said at the start that she hadn't grown veg for years and was looking forward to starting again,(hence all the excitement when she succeeded!) and quite a bit of the series was her visiting other veg growers, like our own Supersprout.

[valmarg]

Yes caroline, I agree.

I think the reason they chose Carol was for her enthusiasm  (she may have gone a bit OTT at times).  She was demonstrating that you don't have to have an allotment, or an enormous plot of land, but that you can grow in small spaces in your back garden, even in small containers, with enthusiasm.  She marvelled at her success (and which of us doesn't/hasn't).   She also encouraged others in the series, and yes it was lovely to see our supersprout.

I think where Gardeners' World has lost the plot, is that they think it necessary to throw hundreds of pounds into a project.  You look at, for example, the wildflower meadow.  Wouldn't want one.  I can leave the weeds to it ant get a similar effect.

valmarg