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I haven't been here for a while but I think I'm in the right place.

Was it a joke? Maybe a late April fool prank and next week he'll tell us that actually ha ha  this is not how to start an allotment? I'm still speechless at the moment so I'll leave it at that.  >:(

Couldn't believe the amount of couch root he managed to chop up and leave in the ground - was shouting at the TV (mind you nothing too unusual about that :) )

I was shouting as well...especially at the bit at the end when he said he was going to start planting next time...he hasn't weeded it yet has he? :-\

..oh & was anyone else thinking how long it would have taken them to collect all that wood in a car (assuming it would fit in the first place)....it would have taken us a full weekend just to do that in our fiesta LOL...how many people actually have access to a big van like that?...not to mention the perks of his site...free compost, free bark, all the top weeds scrapped off....on our local site you're lucky if they tell you where the boundaries of your plot are & give you a full set of keys  ::)

Don't you realise that it's all a put-up job, it takes hours to get a few minutes of screen time. The worst programs are the Houses for Sale type. You see the so called buyers looking over a property, a small house that looks like a mansion due to wide angle lenses. At the end there is always some reason for not buying.

Quote from: Larkshall on April 27, 2008, 22:15:31
Don't you realise that it's all a put-up job, it takes hours to get a few minutes of screen time. The worst programs are the Houses for Sale type. You see the so called buyers looking over a property, a small house that looks like a mansion due to wide angle lenses. At the end there is always some reason for not buying.

I probably should have mentioned this in the 'Claim to fame' thread but I once worked on Charlie's Garden Army at a community garden in Peckham. I really should describe the day in more detail sometime. The filming took from 10 till nearly 6 and was just the bit at the end where Charlie shows the finished garden off. All told I think it was under two minutes in the programme.

Guy at my allotment must have been watching, today he got a lorry load of topsoil.