ITV TELEVISION PROGRAMME

[Paul O Grady]

Dear Allotment Lovers,

I am writing to you from the 'PAUL O'Grady SHOW' on ITV1. We are currently on the look out for the creme de la creme of allotments up and down the UK to showcase on our programme - and ultimately find the UK's first ALLOTMENT CHAMPION.

So...

We are looking for the most bizarre allotments in the UK... Have you converted your allotment into a Swedish sauna, or a nuclear bunker?

Do you have a themed allotment..? Have you transformed your greenhouse into an illegal micro-brewery or alpine lodge? …Or do you simply have the best kept allotment or grow the worlds finest horse radish..

we are on the look out for allotment fanatics to showcase their very own plots of land, whatever the story big or small get in touch:

e-mail huw.slipper@itv.com

Call 0207 5784143

[Paul O Grady]

[wardy]

Wow, flippin eck.  We're about to be famous.  Well some of us with plots worth lookin at that is!   ;D

[wivvles]

Wow, flippin eck.  We're about to be famous.  Well some of us with plots worth lookin at that is!   ;D

Rules me out then   ;)  Unless they have a feature on couch grass....

[NattyEm]

rules me out too unless I half bury my children or husband maybe....

[growmore]

 I hope they not looking to take Mick out of lotties...
Some folks have a weird sense of humour.
Or am I  just paranoid .. :D ..Jim

[wivvles]

rules me out too unless I half bury my children or husband maybe....

What planting distances would you use? Exposed or under cloches? Manured plot or not?   ;)

[growmore]

Get yer buckets  think there's a pile of it here to be gathered  :D :D ..
Dont be mentioning grass couch or owt else,Tha knows what medias like tha'll have em on thee lotty quicker than ferrets up a drainpipe. nod nod ;) ;) ..Jim

[NattyEm]

Manured and cloched of course, wouldn't want them to get cold! :)

[wardy]

ferrets up drainpipes is the type of thing they might like to see.  You could get yourn on telly Jim.  Fame at last  ;D

[TULIP-23]

Hope no ones growing

Wacky Baccy!!!

[simon404]

Would you rather people grew their own or bought it from criminals? We don't have coffee shops in the uk!

[diver]

blimey,!!...have you got any cuttings?

[growmore]

it was a JOKE doubt any on here is growing Wacky Backy ....We has enough wid vegetables ... what i meant by pile was the horse Shi*e    cos i think its all a wind up ..
With  the program ... cheers Jim

[NattyEm]

Its not great weather for growing the best wackybacky outdoors.  I used to grow some in a cubbyhole  (well big enough to sit up in!!) in a wall in my first flat.  All the walls of the cubby lined with tin foil UV strip lighting, grew some lovely stuff :)

[TULIP-23]

Like growmore Said Simon a Joke  ???

Not my fault you´ve got no coffee shops in the Uk

Perhaps there in lays a tale...CRIMINALS

Nattyem  What can I say     You go Girl 8)

[wardy]

Ee Nattyem I don't know what to say other than tt!  ;D  

Jim do you really think it's a wind up?  It's not you behind it is it?   ;)

If it's not and it happens I hope it's Lily Savidge that does the allotment tours rather than her alter ego.  More fun I'm thinking  ;D

[simon404]

soz tulip I thought it was all your fault not. I dont grow any now, did once but nearly got caught, such a shame though, maybe better in watershed.

[teresa]

No fancy lotties on our plot,

[Multiveg]

I don;t think I would like my plot to be filmed - filmed isn't the right word, taken over by a tv production company with their hoards of camera people, sound recordists etc and the hassle.

Just reread the first post in this topic - fanatics I think is a dangerous word. If they want fanatics and the bizarre, then it doesn't sound like it would be a serious programme. Also, if you converted your allotment to a swedish sauna - it wouldn't be an allotment any more! And illegal microbreweries - well, would you like yours to be on tv for the police to see?

[Moggle]

You're probably right multi, taken over would be what happens. Taken over and all your precious raised beds stomped over and compacted down, all your little weeny seedlings damaged etc etc   >:(