Did anyone watch Gardeners World last night? I know a lot of people here don't like it but I liked the bit about squash/pumpkins where they did a pattern on the roof. Forget the old chaps name, think they said that he died this summer, looked an interesting man.
Brilliant, wasn't it! I gathered it had been on before and was repeated because he died earlier this year, aged 97, but I hadn't seen it before.
Ralph Upton
You can see it here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nd1fd/Gardeners_World_2009_Episode_22/
minute 18 onwards.
Alan who ?
I live in hope and still watch it each week, though recorded so I can fast forward the most excruciating parts.
I loved th epumpkin man and hs team and quite enjoyed that slightly precious pair with their nursery and SA grasses but what was TB thinking with that apricot planted on an east facing wall last week - supposedly to discourage the flowers from opening before the pollinating insects are about - and then this week he provided a half baked roll up fleec insulation that had gaps round the side to let all the frost in.
Shoddy doesn't begin to describe it. I have yet to see him execute any gardening test competently or completely. Time to put him on the compost heap.
I'm exactly the same as you Obbelix, I faithfully record it every week, and then skim through on fast forward hoping there will be something worth stopping for......in vain usually ::)
I thought the fleece covering (which was transparent it was so thin) was hardly worth the effort...east facing walls will surely get the early sunshine and anything planted there will suffer most from potential frost damage. I remember Harry Dodson using thick straw 'blinds' to cover walled fruit in the Victorian Kitchen Garden...now that was a useful and informative set of programmes! 8)