"Dave Hill" wrote ...
Ba Humbug!
What a farce, pity they didn't get some veg growers to do the prog.
the team are not veg growers as could be seen by their advice and how
they were doing things.
As for the "New" garden, I wish I could throw money at a site as they
have done,
How much better to show how to do the different jobs without spending
a fortune, £200 for a raised bed, and they have 4.
Why not show how you can dig out the path around the bed to use the
top soil to make the raised bed, keep the beds no more than 5ft wide
so you can work them without having to walk on the bed,
I'm sure that others here could go on adding to the faults

What worries me is that a lot of novice veg growers watch the program and
think it's the best, most modern way, to do it and all us old folks are
doing it the outdated old fashioned way.
Raised beds being an example. A number of the new gardeners on our site
started off planting in small beds, raised or otherwise, before either
giving up a couple of seasons down the line or reverting to the old way of
growing without wasting half the plot with paths which have to be tended
too. At about £95 per plot it's too expensive to waste land.
Free manure/soil improver from your local Council.....yeh right!

May I suggest any novice veg growers subscribe to "The Kitchen Garden"
magazine which is well worth the money.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London