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JennyC wrote:
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Am I the only one who reads and occasionally contributes to this
newsgroup who didn't like Geoff Hamilton? I found him to be clumsy
and he frequently perpetuated myths. He often seemed to indicate that
creosote would kill al plant life from the vapour alone although he did
eventually do a trial comparing water based preservatives with creosote
and found that creosote was perfectly harmless if used properly.
I also found it irritating when he demonstrated how to sow a row of
seeds by sowing half a row,

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So how exactly does sowing the second half of a row differ from
sowing the first half ?

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covering the seeds then moving on to
another feature.
How refreshing when Bertie Doe in Channel 4's
Programmes from Wisley demonstrated the same thing by finishing off a
row that had already been started before the feature.

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Perhaps Geoff Hamilton should have taken up a whole programme
just sowing three or four rows of peas instead. Just so as to
demonstrate the spacing of the rows ? Two rows then a gangway
etc. etc.

Don't tell me that Bertie Doe never mentioned that?

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Same information
better job. But then Bertie was a professional gardener.

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GH trained at horticultural college, and ran a landscaping business
on the side. Details of his biography, given the numerous features
about him on the Beeb should hardly be top secret to anyone.

Premature death - especially when happening on a charity bike
ride - unlike in the case of Buddy Holly, JFK, or Janis Joplin -
can also lend an air of tragedy to the situation.


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Geoff Hamilton may have been a nice and decent bloke but as a gardener
and presenter I didn't rate him, in fact he was the reason that I
stopped watching Gardener's World.

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Sufficient people rated his previous articles in Gardening News for him
to be taken on as a presenter on GW, without his having very much
TV experience at all. Unlike some other smoothies I could name.
Alan Titchmarsh is also a qualified horticulturalist and has
forgetten more than the Corduroy Voiced Monty Don ever learned at
Charm School. Or wherever it was he got his education.
Titchmarsh's sidelining to populist rubbish like Ground Force is
an absolute disgrace IMO.

If there'd have been that much resistence from the GW audience
as evidenced by the BBC postbag, to GH, you'd imagine he's have
been taken off pretty soon.

I do hope you're not hoping to launch a Geoff Hamilton Troll.
Perish the thought !




michael adams

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