Gardening Programs

[Arnie]

Hi,

As everybody has their own views on the current crop of Gardening programs, If you had the opportunity to make a gardening program what would the format be.

Regards

Kevin

[Chantal]

Kevin, on your poll, why isn't there a place to click for "I have an allotment"?

[Arnie]

Hi Chantal,

I know I think I have made a mistake and I do not know how to change it as you are a whizz on these matters can you help

Regards


Kevin

[Chantal]

Hi Kevin, I've added it but to be fair you'd already put the option in and it wasn't showing. I just clicked the update button and it did just that. I'm not going to try and change the order of the questions though, I don't want to mess it up.

I answer now.

[Belinda]

I have a garden with patio, AND an allotment, but the radio buttons for voting are mutually exclusive, do I need to do 2 votes separately or can this be changed?

[jopsy]

i posted allotment
but mines a garden and allotment kind of thing!
possibly a garment? lol

[Compo]

The big dig was great, and Gardender's world really is for posh gardner's most of us can't compete on that scale. So something that encompasses the spirit of Amateur Gardening, the practicality of kitchen gardening and the personalities of ths forum and the Big dig. Don't forget Terry in the Rhonda and the R2 allotment and sometimes on UK style they have something which I think is called Real Gardens which is a makeober in a day.

Compo

[Weed]

Compo...I agree with your comment about most gardening programmes being for those lucky so and so's with large estates.

Ground Force, in my opinion, whether you liked the programme or hated it was hugely successful because it dealt with reality sized gardens.

Monty Don visited some allotment gardens in and around Birmingham a few years ago and an hours show was produced this has been repeated several times since.
A TV production company in the SW produced a series of programmes around Bristol called 'The Allotment' (Available on a 3CD set)

Both of these productions highlighted to me the potential of producing a regular series visiting the various allotment sites throughout the UK. Consider for a moment all the diverse ways of doing things, the interesting charactors ....

With the growth in allotmenteering in the last year or so there is a niche in the market for this type of programme

[Allan]

I hate these mutually exclusive choices. They always result in the wrong conclusions.
Allan

[Tigger]

I've gone for the smallholding - although I don't keep any stock anymore. I do have a patio and a garden as well, so I just hope I've chosen the right one! Basically - I have land and veg and fruit and a garden but no allotment. I know I'm lucky and I don't want to push that, but I'm definitely a rural being rather than an urban one.

[Arnie]

Hi Allan,

Thanks for your kind words do not hold back now you say it as you see it.
As you hate these Mutually Exclusive choices would you please devise a set of questions to suit my inital posting,
which is as follows,
As everybody has their own views on the current crop of Gardening programs, If you had the opportunity to make a gardening program what would the format be.

Now before anyone says I am having a pop at Allan well I am not


Regards


Kevin

[Tigger]

Whilst waiting for Allan's reply......as I may have said many times before, I don't mind what format the TV companies use as long as it entices people to garden. It's the same with cookery, DIY, wine tasting, travel or anything else - inspire folk and give them confidence and they will respond. That's the general idea for the general public.

As for the specialist audience - look at what's beiong discussed and respond. It was allotments, maybe it's now fruits or heritage crops, growing in a changing climate, making the most out of greenhouses and tunnels.

What about making the link between growing and cooking, growing and preserving.

[Chantal]

Sophie Grigson had a program some years ago about growing and then cooking as I recall. I used to watch that religiously as she'd take a particular group of veg each week and go from seeds to pot; or am I dreaming. Again.

[Tigger]

If you were Chanters, I was there..... Mind you - I don't want to get to her size. What's happened there?

[Chantal]

Too late, I was her (skinny) size when programme was on and I was stunned when I saw her at GW Live. However, I think I'm just keeping pace...