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Must mean summer is around the corner

I remember my parents watching Percy Thrower, then Geoff Hamilton and thinking how awfully boring.

Now I love it

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I'm stupidly excited about Monty dividing his cardoons!

I want a cardoon!

Same
Just tried to get dd to watch it with me. She gave me a wonderful look of disgust.
It was so comforting last year when covid was new and scary.

I spent almost all of lockdown 1 in the garden, thanking my lucky stars I could.

I want a cardoon too.
But mostly I want my garden to get going properly. I want to sow seeds.

@FuzzyPuffling do you have a greenhouse?

Not a real one. I have a cold frame ( full of last year's pelargoniums) and one of those plastic covered ones. I showed a couple of seed trays a week or so ago, and the storm blew the plastic structure over and wrecked the seeds. Curses!

Ah shame. We had a plastic greenhouse for a couple of years to see if we really wanted a proper one as much as we thought we did. It was only a cheapo from amazon but we grew all our own bedding, tomatoes and cucumber. Maybe worth a thought?

That's why I've got a plastic one...checking out if it's worth splashing out on the real thing. It's very windy where I live so I'd worry about panes of glass flying off. But I'm hoping even this one will see off the tomato blight.

Friday night bliss has returned!

I want a cardoon too, but I don't have a greenhouse and my garden is windy.

They have loads of enormous ones in the garden of the Roman villa at Fishbourne. I fell in love with them.

Apparently the cardoon needs full sun; fertile, well-drained but moisture-retentive soil; lots of space; shelter from strong winds; and is vulnerable to attack by slugs, snails and various aphids.

Really helpful for the average garden, Monty. Thanks

@FuzzyPuffling

Not a real one. I have a cold frame ( full of last year's pelargoniums) and one of those plastic covered ones. I showed a couple of seed trays a week or so ago, and the storm blew the plastic structure over and wrecked the seeds. Curses!

I put old bricks and breeze blocks on the bottom shelf of my plastic thing, I’m glad I did with some of the windy days we had this winter.

viques I did that with mine, but the gales still upended the whole blooming lot. Boo.

My NDN in Kent used to grow cardoons and very handsome they were too.

I have various cardoon seedlings sprouting, no clue how far I'll get with them but they're looking strong and healthy so far.

LOVE having GW back, sets the weekend off nicely.

I loved the garden in Leeds (?). Amazing what you can do in a small space - quite inspiring.

My mum left school at 16 and doesn't consider herself 'educated' but is the most incredible gardener. She has made two beautiful and completely different gardens, and can name any plant you like as well as tell you how and where to grow it. She credits GW, and especially Geoff Hamilton, with turning her into a proper gardener. I'm trying to follow her footsteps but I find it hard to retain all the information. I do find it really soothing to watch though - even just the plant names sound really poetic to me!

My mum, RIP, was a huge GH fan!

I think GW has to be a bit careful not to stray too far into the 'weekend garden makeover' territory, though!