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New Gardeners’ World ‘Head Gardener’ announced!

Posted in Gardening, Growing Vegetables, tagged , , , , on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The long awaited news of the next national Head Gardener has recently been announced – he will be 38 year old nurseryman and landscape gardener Toby Buckland, dubbed an ‘ethical gardener’ and ‘hugely likable and enthusiastic’ – Monty’s wellies are a big thing to step into, so I wish him well.
Toby won a gold for [...]

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Alys for Head Gardener!

Posted in Growing Vegetables, tagged , , , on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I am SO with my garden right now, as months of planning and loving tending are coming to manifestation. Things are coming up everywhere, the peas are flowering, the potatoes are burgeoning, the salads being picked, tomatoes potted on, courgettes and runner beans planted out, broad beans making pods and apples fruiting. Whilst I [...]

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Missing Monty Don Part 2

Posted in Eclectic Nonsense, tagged , , on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Okay, now that I am on this ‘descriptive writing about Monty Don’ trip, I am finding all sorts of waxing lyricals about him. He really captures the imagination, doesn’t he – that’s because there is something of the Earth about him. After I posted last night’s whimsy, Carol announced that Monty is having a break [...]

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Missing Monty Don

Posted in Growing Vegetables, tagged , , on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

You’ve got to take your hat off to AA Gill, the Times’ TV critic. Whilst he may have been rather unforgivably panning Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens, the way he describes Monty is a hoot. It really is such a classic that I have to include it here, where mostly I usually [...]

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Gardeners World Again!

Posted in Eclectic Nonsense, Growing Vegetables, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I so love Gardeners World – when it’s not on I long for it, and when it is I eschew any social activity going to settle myself down in front of it on a Friday evening. It has an odd effect – something between an adrenaline rush and a mug of hot chocolate – but [...]

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A new one on Popeye!

Posted in Growing Vegetables, Uncategorized, tagged , on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Being a relative novice to growing veggies (though now the proud owner of the local Gardeners Association novice cup – my friends are all bored with hearing that one!) I had not realised that some veggies, well, just keep going forever. I thought you ate them then planted more. How wrong was I…
Now my well [...]

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Quote of the Day

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I love Monty Don – I thought that no-one could ever take the special place in my heart occupied by Geoff Hamilton of blessed memory – but Monty has such a gentle passion for the earth about him. As everything is peeping above the surface now wanting to push upwards and grow, here’s a quote [...]

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