Bill R wrote in
:

Has anyone been watching PBS's Victory Garden this season?
Everyone from last season except Kip (the gardner) is gone. The
new hosts are just horrible. The programs seem to be all over the
place and most of them have not been worth watching. There was
one where the host spent almost the entire post bending metal for
a potting design. What a waste!

PBS had a great program in the Victory Garden but, IMO they ruined
it. They need to go back to the good old days when they had great
hosts and spent their time on interesting gardening subjects.

I used to be a staunch viewer of The Victory Garden. However, it got
so far from it's original intent that I quit watching most of the
episodes. It was good, even for the most part with Roger Swain
hosting it, but during his rein, the show went from having useful
gardening information to showing the "great gardens" of the world
with Peter what's his name and Adrian Bloom. What in the wide, wide,
world of sports did any of that have to do with how to raise a garden
and benefit from eating what you grew?

Then there was 'Chef Marion'. Her food must have been the blandest
food in the world. I wonder if she even knew what seasonings were
used for. I wouldn't want her cooking for me, that is for sure. Then
she had to go to Europe to watch the chefs over there. Again, I
wondered what that had to do with gardening.

When Mikey took over, I thought that maybe he would bring VG back to
some of it's former glory, but he proved me wrong. Maybe what PBS
should do is to just put The Victory garden out of it's misery and
get on with some other type of program.

That is just my opinion, and as usual, your mileage may vary.

Good growing,

Dan Harriman
Orange, Texas