Posted by Terry Fields on March 6, 2010, 7:26 pm
Janet Baraclough wrote:
>> Round here the fields (and gardens) are practically waterlogged, and a
>> few days of sun and wind have made little impact on that. It must be
>> the same over much of the country, but this just wasn't taken up by
>> the programme.
> Why should it be?
> GW, like gardening posters here, know that there is no "must be
>the same conditions over the rest of the country".
> We all have different weather as posts here constantly demonstrate
> Janet
But soggy ground is soggy ground, weather or not one likes it.
Can't GW cope with a programme about soggy ground and how to deal with
it?
TF
Posted by Mike Lyle on March 6, 2010, 4:09 pm
Roo wrote:
[...]> In fact, I don't think there's anything wrong with the
> presenters, just programme production.
That's right. But telly producers aren't interested in gardening: what
they like watching is people.
> Oh, and it could've done with more music at times, which certainly
> helps to raise the gardening spirit !
Heck, no! Not more gratuitous music chosen by somebody else: I find it
really irritating.
--
Mike.
Posted by Sacha on March 6, 2010, 5:57 pm
<snip>
Oh, and it could've done with more music at times, which certainly
> helps to raise the gardening spirit !
That would be the spirit of revolt in both of us. One thing we cannot
stand is that unnecessary and extraneous music. What use is that to a
gardening programme?! Mutter, grumble and moan. ;-)
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon
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>> few days of sun and wind have made little impact on that. It must be
>> the same over much of the country, but this just wasn't taken up by
>> the programme.
> Why should it be?
> GW, like gardening posters here, know that there is no "must be
>the same conditions over the rest of the country".
> We all have different weather as posts here constantly demonstrate
> Janet