Life in a cottage garden. BBC2

jollyanna

Carol Klein's new series of 6 progs. begins tonight and charts a gardeners year in her own Devon garden. I heard her talking about it on Woman's Hour last week and it began filming last winter and follows through the year. I shall be watching it because I like her as a presenter and I'm badly in need of a gardening fix !

stilernin

jollyanna wrote: »

Carol Klein's new series of 6 progs. begins tonight and charts a gardeners year in her own Devon garden. I heard her talking about it on Woman's Hour last week and it began filming last winter and follows through the year. I shall be watching it because I like her as a presenter and I'm badly in need of a gardening fix !

Oooh, thanks for this. Sounds luverley

lostinrates

Thank you...I hadn't heard about it either....(why are they so bad at advertising gardening telly apart fromTotmarsh but they tell us about Doctor Who endlessly?) .

I'll try to remember this evening! Thanks.:)

theGrinch

lostinrates wrote: »

Thank you...I hadn't heard about it either....(why are they so bad at advertising gardening telly apart fromTotmarsh but they tell us about Doctor Who endlessly?) .

I'll try to remember this evening! Thanks.:)

the BBC think doctor who is sooooo good and the greatest thing ever. I dont. its shameful the lack of gardening programmes on the bbc on a regular basis considering the number of people that garden or have gardens and the benefits of gardening.

OP thanks for the heads up.

lostinrates

theGrinch wrote: »

its shameful the lack of gardening programmes on the bbc on a regular basis considering the number of people that garden or have gardens and the benefits of gardening.
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You know I agree. A more useful daytime daily would be a gardening show...just twenty mins or half an hour helping novice gardeners do jobs each day/week based on time of year/weather...which books can never predict.

theGrinch

lostinrates wrote: »

You know I agree. A more useful daytime daily would be a gardening show...just twenty mins or half an hour helping novice gardeners do jobs each day/week based on time of year/weather...which books can never predict.

this is becoming a love in, but I agree.

you would think that according to the BBC no one gardens in winter. In fact, I'm in my garden daily.

Further, I know all the gardeners at Chelsea 2011 are busy working right now. Cleave West has been on the Daily Telegraph site a few times this winter with updates. Its a shame that we cant follow on the BBC as well as your suggestion of a short daily/weekly show instead of dumb dumb, they are dumbing it down, silly soap storylines they make and break from thin air

shellysue

yes thanks for the heads up on the prog.

Anyone else remember Pebble Mill, a nice lunchtime prog, when we learnt about growing veg and then cooking veg and all on a shoestring, along with other little chatty and informitive snippets.
Why dont they bring something like that back, it would be very useful for a good lot people right now with the economy like it is.

cootambear

cheap as chips to make too

lostinrates

cootambear wrote: »

cheap as chips to make too

I'll volunteer a garden.

I don't remember Pebble Mill. Interesting that its been done before...was it lack of demand that made them give up?

LJM

im really looking forward to this i like carol her enthsiusm is contagious

shellysue

lostinrates wrote: »

I'll volunteer a garden.

I don't remember Pebble Mill. Interesting that its been done before...was it lack of demand that made them give up?

it was axed in favour of the one O'clock news:mad: despite a lot of complaints about the loss