The Edible Gardener - New BBC2 Series with Alys Fowler, starts 7th April

alfieroux

I enjoyed this too, with a pich of salt thrown in.

How come her 50p+20p tomatoes were such a bargain when it cost her £160 to build the teeny greenhouse, that didn't work.....

Will watch again, and will look out for the book coming to our library soon too.

Alfie

Lotus-eater

She should have sown Ferline toms, I was shouting it at her

Furny

Lotus-eater wrote: »

It's on the Yesterday channel atm, 10pm at night and sometimes during the day as well.

Thanks so much just found it on Sky 537!.
Oh my! on Sky series link i now have Grow your own drugs, Edible Garden,Gardeners World,Beechgrove Garden & now this, i'll be taking up all the recording space.
Some good nights in for me when OH goes out!;)

Optimisticpair

I quite enjoyed it -I like the concept of a garden with flowers and veg in - but how will Alys do crop rotation, ie not grow members of the same veg family in the same place more than once in three years?

Surely she would need two compost heaps ie one rotted down to use and a second one to add fresh material to. I'd have thought she would need a larger chicken run too? My garden is roughly the same size and I'm not sure that I can fit chickens in as well.

katholicos

It's growing on me, but not much.

She still iritates me with her hippy-dipyness that seems more than a bit 'put on' to me. What she said about beginning to regret buying one of those tomato plants seemed rather dumb considering she spent a fortune on creating an indoor grow space for 1 tomato plant. She spent £160 on erecting a growhouse with 'pretty glass' when she could have bought a proper greenhouse for that much, and she could have chosen a small enough one for her garden to accomodate despite what she said about not having space for one.

Because i'm mad about GYO at the moment I will watch almost anything even vaguely to do with growing fruit and veg, in the hope of picking up ideas and tips, but i think the show is more about feel-good aesthetically pleasing gardening than the nuts and bolts of how to grow your own. In that respect then, it's fluff and is a fairly easy to watch 30 minute show.

valentina

Furny

What, no Grow your own veg or James Martin digs deep? Check the Good Food Channel...set that series link!

Lotus-eater

valentina wrote: »

James Martin digs deep? Check the Good Food Channel...set that series link!

I can't stand him, a right numty and he's knows less than nothing about growing veg, I can listen to the OH if I want a novices advice thanks.

:rotfl:

midnightraven3

i live a very "dippy hippy" lifestyle as so many have put it here:D
but she takes the biscuit
she bought a plant grown in a see through container, hmmmmmmmmmm, just hmmmmm

i see others addressed the greenhouse issue so i wont:D

come on girls, don your floaty flowery summer dress and lets dig in:silenced::silenced:

evie451

I do like Alys but its a bit like Kirsty Allsop she would grate with some folk! I have started reading her thrifty garden book which has more actual advice in it although i am not sure how i would go about sourcing all the wooden wine and champagne crates she grows loads of the stuff in.....i have bin dived for wood and pallets but maybe i should try round the back of an upmarket bottle shop instead!

Midnight not sure if the floaty dress thing will catch on with me with all the brambles and berberis bushes in my garden but if it doesnt sleet or snow at the weekend i will give it a go...

Orange_King

That Nettle booze didn't seem to go down too well but I did pick up on her nettle soup concoction for tomatoes - was it this that killed hers off and nothing to do with blight???