Gardeners’ World

[Neverknowinglyunderbold]

Will there be a 2023 series?

What gardening programmes are you watching now?

Yes, episode 1 aired on Friday (though it was just a compilation of last season highlights).

Don't have any others as just started Gardeners World (and gardening) last year.

I did like Your Garden Made Perfect for big landscaping stuff.

2023 starts around the 17th March I think. Until then, as pp said, it's been on with compilations of last year.

I live Beechgrove. That's not on yet either but back episodes are available on the iplayer. It's like Gardener's World but if GW was filmed by your grandad round in your nan's garden

Old episodes of Big Dreams, Small Spaces is also really good. I am gutted they didn't continue with it. I think you can find them on YouTube.

Love gardener's world, looking forward to it starting properly again. Occasionally watch the make over garden programme with Charlie Dimmock and the two brothers.

Not watching, but listening to Gardeners Question Time on R4 as always. And to Toby Buckland's four hour show on Sundays on BBC Radio Devon, which has some excellent advice.

I've just started watching a couple of YouTubers, Huw.....Edwards?, and another enthusiastic, bespectacled, English man, the channel I think is called GrowVeg.

My absolute favourite. So sad it didn’t continue.

I love Gardener's World and Beechgrove Garden. I'm also currently watching last year's Chelsea Flower Show as I was in hospital last year at the time it was on. All available on iPlayer to catch up on before this year's programmes.

Oooh I might that a go and I’ll check out Big Dreams and Growveg on YouTube too.

I love gardening programmes.

Has to be Beechgrove for us. So homely.

I've been watching last years episodes again and Carol Klein's. The countdown for '23 begins!!!!!!

I watch most of my stuff on YouTube. Huw Edwards who is a no-dig veg YouTuber in the same vein as Charles Dowding - I watch both. Growveg is great but he’s a bit hyperactive for me. Middle-sized garden is very good for an average suburban garden although hers is far larger than mine. Bunny Guinness doesn’t post often but is good when she does. I watch a few allotment holders, one fantastic one is Emma’s allotment diaries - especially as she is absolutely not an expert but has enthusiasm, makes mistakes and is generally engaging. I also follow the Australian Self sufficient me for the dad jokes. I also follow Joel Aston’s wild your garden.

My garden is a combination of flowers, veg and wildlife but it’s quite small so I pack things in and veg grows alongside everything else. I practice no-dig, no pesticides, no bought fertilisers and make as much of my own compost as I can.

I don’t have an actual TV or a licence so don’t watch the BBC or any other terrestrial channels.

I’ve just been watching the Gardeners World winter specials thanks to this thread. Pure joy.

My Hort Soc is hosting GQT next week and I’m helping organise it. I’m beside myself with excitement - can’t wait to find out who will be on the panel!

Correction to earlier post, it's Huw Richards. Huw Edwards is the newsreader . Is the Australian self sufficient bloke the one with the dog that's a toad junkie?

Ha - yes Huw Richards. The Aussie doesn’t have a dog - it’s called self sufficient me. I want to call him Barry but I think his name is Mark.

Deffo look at the Carol Klein programmes on C5 if you haven't - she's so enthusiastic and incredibly knowledgeable.

On YouTube I'd add Jessie@Plot 37 and homegrown.garden

Both are more allotmenty than pure gardening, and both are horticultural trained so do know what they're on about.

And if you can deal with the hyperactivity, James Prigioni is inspiring, although he's just New Jersey so a bit different.

Carol Klein really gets on my tits. If she gushes 'magical!' with that little giggle in her voice one more time I won't be responsible for my actions.......😡
I've had both Gardener's World and Beechgrove filming here. Beechgrove people seem to be still gardening in the 1970s. Gardeners World was great (on both occasions). It's the only programme I bother with. Beechgrove is dire.
Unashamed horticultural snob here....

😁

I like Carol but I agree, her screams of brilliant and magical can annoy.

God I'm so glad it's not just me. She drives me utterly bonkers. Though I also find Adam rather smug and superior and thus am prepared to accept that it may be a me problem (as in 'me' is a grumpy cow).

Oh I love Carol Klein! And Adam Frost. Never really warmed to Monty Don though…

I'd like them to repeat Old Garden, New Gardener. It was in the late eighties I think with Geoff Hamilton

I love Huw Richard's. His videos on soil improvement and composting are excellent and apply to any gardening, not just veg growing.

I don't get the Monty-love. I don't find his programmes terribly relevant because my garden is nothing like Longmeadow. It's not "Gardeners' World" but "Monty's World". It's probably only the lockdown invention of "viewers' videos" that keeps me watching.
Carol Klein annoys me. She obviously had media training that said that she has to inject excitement into her presentation but she ends up sounding try-hard and false.
I didn't use to like Adam Frost but he's growing on me (pun not intended). I can relate more to his (new) garden.

I do get that the country-house-posh-with-a-twist that Monty does isn't for everyone. It is for me because my garden is about the same size and style as Longmeadow but I attained that pattern independently as a result of over 40 years of gardening. Nevertheless, my daughter, who has a typical new-build suburban garden and is a complete beginner, finds him accessible and in tune with what she wants to create. She hasn't got rolling acres but has enjoyed her table arrangement of aeoniums in terracotta pots, for example.
He is an excellent plantsman with a strong sense of design and a deep knowledge of the classic tradition. That's where I've ended up too but I do get that others want something different. I've had BBC Gardeners'World here twice, but never Monty to my acute disappointment.

If you want a prolific channel (and to feel very very small and inferior 🙂) then Steve's seaside kitchen garden has content every few days and his setup and general life philosophy are AMAZING. He gives away a lot of free reference resources too on his website (sowing database is incredible)