8.00 to 9.00pm. BBC2 Friday 3rd. March. Gardeners World Special on Allotments. This reminder was a suggestion by members of some way of tell us all of any up-coming TV worth watching. Hope it works.
Brian
Well after a bit of confusion I managed to put an events post in the calendar marked Must CTV, and linked it first by mistake to the shed, then as intended to news, so if I can do it anybody can!
Click on calendar at the top of screen.
Choose month and post event.
Enter details, and link to news.
Post.
i'm trying to do the Bill Oddie thing tonight, but that's put it in the Shed rather than news as well.
good idea Gardenantics .... once i've sorted it into the right forum lol
;D
Brian, once the event is created, how do you move the post to the correct forum i.e. news rather than the Shed ???
I can't see how to do that bit.
Jo
Hi Jo,
I'm not sure how I did it, but I copied your post, and pasted it into a new events post. You can now go back to your post, and delete it, which should leave the one in News. Trouble is my brain can't keep track of what I've done.
Brian
i'm with you there pal, and now i'm trying to sort out strike throughs as well.
lol
maybe i should go back to work ;D
and now that i've managed to delete the calendar event and related post, i really should clock back in.
well done us ! lol
Jo,
I wonder if we are doing it the wrong way round, I just noticed a button to click on at the bottom of the posts that says Link to Calendar. Maybe we should write the post in the News section then use this to create an event listing in the calendar. I haven't tried it yet so may be talking *******s, but will give it a go next visit.
Brian
talk about amateurs leading amateurs Brian. I'll find another suitable programme and have a go myself. I must admit I was a bit hassled with folk trying to talk to me about nonsense at lunchtime when I was trying earlier.
They obviously didn't understand the "talk to the hand" look i was giving them.
;D
We'll get there in the end, then we will start again and get there via a different route! So long as it's there eh!
Brian
I just noticed this too - sadly it's the one from August 2003 with the woman doing the dyeing and the other one with the weird gooseberry drink and the chap with the suspended strawberries... they went for weird characters rather than a tour of normal lottie tenants. *sigh*
Oh well, looks like I'll be watching Frost again...
moonbells
Can't get it here in Wales even if i wanted to - BBC2 Wales has Rugby on the aerial and snooker on Freeview. Good job I was in Norfolk last week and saw Sarah Raven and her fruit!
Just got in from visiting my father to see this programme on. My wife was aghast when I showed no interest ... Thats not allotment gardening I said, thats just stuff for a telly programme ...
My apologies if I appear cynical, but these programmes are made for the masses ...
i thoroughly enjoyed it and have a mild pang of regret that i have my lottie in my back garden.
i thought the chap with the hose was just so funny. there was no way he was gonna stop using it lol
i would die for that soil, i can't imagine ever having soil that fine and crumbly and dry !!
i loved the hooks to hold the bean poles up too. has given me loads of ideas and a boost of energy.
Me too Mrs KP. I hear what the others are saying, but I did enjoy it, I sat and watched it with my 6 year old son who surprisingly :o enjoyed it too. I was very proud at how many vegies he knew, he was fascinated by the lady dyeing the cloth.
pakaba ;D
i have managed to go out and do a bit more or less everynight this week, and still don't seem to be getting anywhere :o
so a little taster of what might be if i keep going, was just what the doctor ordered.
and i want green manures !
;D
I really enjoyed the programme tonight, I'm wanting to grow plants for dyeing this year so it had extra value to me. I too picked up a few tips and really enjoyed seeing how other people do things. :D
I enjoyed it....again! But I was looking forward,... hoping, to see the BBC visit an allotment in a different part of the country. A hundred miles further North and you'd see different methods. (and characters)
Quote from: moonbells on March 03, 2006, 19:42:58
... they went for weird characters rather than a tour of normal lottie tenants. *sigh*
moonbells
:o some of those 'weird characters' are friends of mine - not weird at all, just passionate lottie folk, really, and, you know, I think that even this forum's got enough 'characters' to people a TV programme all of its own ;) - looking at the 'scavanging' thread and some of the 'top tips', I reckon that the ones we saw last night were really quite restrained ;D ;D ;D
I saw this programme when it originally broadcasted and whilst I loved the ethos of it, I disliked its limitations. But that's surely understandeable when allotment sites have such varied and wonderful characters as well as wonderful and varied produce ;D
Too much emphasis was made on the 'competition' and not enough on the characters if you ask me ... but people rarely ask me ... and I like it that way ;D
An hour isn't enough to capture what happens in the allotments .. even with editing.
They'd do far better to take a site somewhere, pick a cross-section of plotholders, from beginners with derelict plots to people who've been there 20 years and win all the competitions, and follow them for a year. But I suppose that would be too much commitment to ask for.
Yes I agree with that Robert, that would make a great programme. I did enjoy seeing the allotments special again, but it just left me wanting to see more and in more depth. :) busy_lizzie
consider how much "Top Gear" must spend on each programme, and then how much it would cost to do a decent lottie series .... next to nothing i would imagine.
now i've nothing against Jeremy Clarkson, infact i find him quite entertaining, but there should be a balance.
maybe lottieing isn't sexy enough.
:o
There is only so much you can get into an hour and obviously they tried to make a programme that would appeal to lottie and non lottie people.
Personally I really enjoyed it, and Monty Don was a bonus, he just so loves allotments, he feels really passionately about them.
MM
I really enjoyed the show, but agree that the amount of time spent on the competiton was bit much. It all seemed a bit twee yet anal at the same time.
Missed it the first time around so was glad to catch it. Thought it was quite good, really. Yes, lots of "characters" (tv wouldn't touch a subject without them) but they had good tips:
- earthing up carrots to avoid carrot fly
- the runnerbean poles and the metal support structure
- gently crushing coriander seeds to improve yield
- no-water gardening (potentiall useful for this year's drought problems)
- the ex-pipe tool made for digging up parsnips with the longest roots I've ever seen
- those beautiful walled allotments that I am SO envious about. There's an historical horticulture/social thesis opportunity.
- how to grow marijuana on old compost heaps... did I say that out loud? ;D
I marvel at the time people have available to not only think around problems but also to make all these things.
It would be great if there were a full series of allotment programmes, but something tells me that there would be so many tips and tricks that one series wouldn't be enough!
I thought it was a great program and has inspired me to start container veg for the first time. Got very enthusiastic and went to the organic gardening catalogue and ordered quite a few! I've so far started my Broad beans in rootrainers, four varieties of tomatoes and my Brussels Sprouts! Lots more to go yet! I have also ordered £12.00 worth of organic Strawberry Plants ('Florence') form Tamar Organics! Not a bad prigram with outcomes like that! I don't even have a lottie! Dan :-)