Allotments 4 All

Having read and contributed to a couple of threads on GW - fill a 60 minute time slot with your ideal programme...................
:)

20 minutes for beginners on a allotment and who would like to see it from scratch.

20 minutes for intermediate folk.

and 15 minutes for advanced folk (they dont need as much time as they know most things already)

and 5 minutes on persuading folk to have more fun at their alotment and start building triangles ;) :D :D :D or trying something different!!!!.  ;)

I think it would help by repeating some of the old Geoff Hamilton GWs.

His philosophy was that you do not need to throw £000's of license payers' money at gardening.  You can make very acceptable, reasonably priced equivalents.

That, to my mind, is an area that needs to be revisited.  Monty Don and his cohorts seem to have been brought up on the 'expense no object' school of gardening, which most of us cannot afford.

I think the two words that would sum up what I would like to see in a gardening programme are 'practical and productive'.

valmarg

we've just bought the allotment dvds, thank you, KTLawson for the link, these are absolutely brilliant, we saw them years ago and they still give us lots of info now..just how allotments should be done, imho  ;D

Anything without Monty Don!

Seriously though - repeats of Geoff Hamilton doing things the 'right way' or Alan (lovely Alan  :-*)

Hmm...I think I'm coming across as an old fogey - but I am young (really!)

Get the bods at radio four 's Gardeners Question Time to advise.

I always enjoyed Percy Thrower on a Friday night when I was a lad and also Geoffrey Smith a few years later, personally I think Geoff Smith was an excellent gardening presenter and I would love to see his series repeated :)

Dont UKTV Gardens do this kind of stuff ?

I think they do, if you subscribe to sky, which we do not.

valmarg

Well...I'm actually quite happy as it is..suddenly this program turned into a right entertainment...poor Joe...he has got some comments here..I wonder if he get to read any of them... ;D
I like Monty..but I'm getting bit bored with him now..and I do not like the head gardener...
Hmm...feels like they are slowly trying to stear us away from Berryfield and do more things elsewhere.
I would like to see Christine in GW...she is fun..and so down to earth..."normal" kind of gardener..like any one of us.. ::)

Anyone remember exams - answer the question posed  :) Not wishing to be a stuck in the mud (although some of us might be in just that situation)  but Springbokgirlie seems to be the only one so far.

I'd like 60 mins of the old codger that lives next to Christine , in 'Christine's Garden'.  ;D

Quote from: Baaaaaaaa on April 15, 2008, 00:06:50
I'd like 60 mins of the old codger that lives next to Christine , in 'Christine's Garden'.  ;D

That will be Reg.

Christine needs less volume and tone down the hyperactiveness.


Back to thread topic  ;D
IDEAL Programme would contain...

1. The basics...Soil preparation, manures, leaf mold, mulches etc etc
2. Things to make...i.e cold frames, compost bins, raised beds
3. Simple recipes for your food on your plot/garden
4. Basic tools
5. Container gardening tips for those who don't have a *Berryfields as a back yard"

I don't want to see my licence money wasted on being shown how to plant up 20 trees costing £50 a piece in ONE border, or see Carol flitting around her OWN Garden showing us dead twigs going "Oooh and Ahhhh" every five seconds.

Sorry ninnyscrops! I should have answered the question rather than imagining a utopian future without Sir Monty!

I agree with Springbokgirlie - that sounds like a great programme, just don't get He Who Must Not Be Named to present it!  I'd like to think that the programme was more grounded in real life - we don't all have a host of gardeners to carry out the work...and I'd love to see Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood back on TV!

60 minutes watching Joe Swift and Monty, and the producers talk their way out of the utter shite that was last weeks show, and make a formal apology for insulting our intelligence.

hiya, pootle, not sure if I've said it but welcome to the site.
how to get a site
soil preparation
sowing seed, inside and out, in all the various ways, pots, jiffys, cells, rootrainers, loo rolls, paper pots and how to make them
types of compost and how they differ
transplanting them plus a planting calendar
things that can, and will, go wrong
pests and diseases
I could go on  ;D

Now,now, albacore, don't get us started again! ;D

I'd like to see each week:

An item on propagation (with the camera showing the important bits!)
A visit to a garden (large or small)
An item on veg growing
An item on design
A question and answer section (like GQT)

Preferably presented by Monty, Joe, Carol and Chris!

forgot, recycling and compost making

We, in the ITV Central region, used to have a programme 'Gardening Today' with Geoff Amos and Howard (forgotten his surname).

It was based in the Birmingham Botanic Gardens.  It was a very good, informative programme. 

They used to do 'behind the scenes' topics.  For example, how many of us buy plug bedding plants.  In one programme they went to a producer of the 'plug plants' and showed what went otheir production, ie how exactly seven lobelia seeds were sown into one plug.  Sounds a bit naff, but it was a really interesting programme.

Personally, I don't watch Gardeners' World any more.  I think (like a lot of other areas) the BBC has totally 'lost the plot', and is not catering for its license-fee payers.

Sorry to have gone off at a bit of another tangent ;D

valmarg

Quote from: manicscousers on April 15, 2008, 15:43:16things that can, and will, go wrong

Yes!! This is why I've given up watching it really.  They show you how to do the first bit of something, but it's just assumed that everything will be fine and dandy from then on.