Gardeners World

Badrick

"Beechgrove will be back on your screens from Thursday 2nd April at 19.30 on BBC2 Scotland and on Sunday mornings on BBC 2 network". :j
http://www.beechgrove.co.uk/

forgotmyname

Never watched beechgrove. I will have to give it a try, But you can only watch them plant potatoes and peas etc so many times before you think. Im sure ive seen this before.

Make a hole plop a seed in and wait?

Ken68

There is too much chat on gardening programmes. All is needed is a camera (no sound) to follow the gardener around. Watch him hoe, mow, edge, rake,plant, mulch. etc.
What I see in todays programme is empire building, high paid nice talkers and the celebrity spin offs paid for from the licence fee.

Farway

I watch both, but TBH I prefer the radio, radio4, Gardeners Question Time does go off tangent at times, walking around some palace or other, but mainly sticking to the plot of gardening

And lucky for me Radio Solent lunchtime on Sundays

MandM90

I'll have to give beechgrove a try, never seen it. There are some old gardeners world episodes on Youtube which are fab (my two favourites recently have been "Gardening Heros" and "Vegetable Kingdom"). Not been finding the new series too thrilling, but still watch on catchup whilst eating breakfast on a Saturday morning I do love a bit of Monty

A._Badger

Farway wrote: »

I watch both, but TBH I prefer the radio, radio4, Gardeners Question Time does go off tangent at times, walking around some palace or other, but mainly sticking to the plot of gardening

And lucky for me Radio Solent lunchtime on Sundays

I gave up on Gardeners World years ago, Monty Don brings me out in a rash and Carol Klein is just unspeakable.

I did start watching Beechgrove a year or so ago, thanks to recommendations on this forum and while I enjoyed seeing some 'real gardening' eventually got to the point where one more visit to a 'community garden' and I'd have thrown the collected works of Marx and Engels at the screen.

For all its faults (and I agree about the pointless visits) BBC Radio's GQT is still the best out there. At least they concentrate on plants and their cultivation, something which is too often lost in TV's race for celebrity, gimmicks and 'messages'. I miss crusty old Stefan Buczacki though.

Ken68

Odd that .....Badger, would have thought gardening was a visual thing.
I think Monty's voice is terrific, certainly not forced as with the other presenters.

lisa110rry

Oh, but never was a man so missed by so many as Geoff Hamilton. Remember how he recycled, reused and re-that-other-thing long before it was fashionable?

Now personally I have a hard time listening to Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 (I feel his "sympathy" sounds spurious) but when he has the Welsh chap on his allotment, I'm riveted.

And I do like Monty Don's voice.

wellused

You're not alone on the Jeremy Vine thing but as you say the Welsh allotment chap is great he was sowing broad beans in the pouring rain the other day.

lisa110rry

Isn't he brill? Could you hear the rain? I can only listen occasionally when I happen to be travelling at work.