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Grow Your Own Veg - yesterday
"JennyC" wrote "Keith (Dorset)" wrote As Carol has lived at the cottage for thirty years, and hasn't grown her own veg, for twenty; one is tempted to ask why she has suddenly started now? Where there's muck there's brass, maybe? Of course......., but I get the impression that she's been raising a family and getting a business of the ground in the intervening years..... I don't know what's the matter with all you old Moaning Minnies over this programme. I love it, and look forward to it all week! Carol K is a brilliant gardening presenter, whether she's talking about veg, or planting perennials for a flower garden. She never claimed to be a beginner at growing vegetables - if people had been paying attention they'd have seen she'd had lots of experience 'growning her own' many years ago, but as J says, for the last two decades has concentrated on her nursery business, shows etc. I'm really glad they got her to do this programme. OK, so expert allotmenteers would like a more in depth, technical sort of programme that caters for those already producing much of their own food on huge plots - and I agree there's definitely an audience for something like that and it's long overdue - but it isn't what this particular series has presumably been designed for. I think it *will* inspire a lot of back garden dabblers to have a go at planting things they can eat, simply because of her infectious enthusiasm, and is also likely to appeal to women. That could be a key element in getting households that wouldn't otherwise ever grow so much as a lettuce to start thinking about how and where their food is produced and to try a small plot or a few pots themselves. -- Sue |
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