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I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I
had to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find
her good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up as
it has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different form
to any I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.
David @ a rainy side of Swansea Bay.

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On 14/01/2014 19:27, David Hill wrote:
I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I
had to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find
her good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up as
it has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different form
to any I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.
David @ a rainy side of Swansea Bay.

Yes, I've been impressed too. The whole series would make a good
present for a gardener as a boxed DVD set

--

Jeff

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"David Hill" wrote

I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I had
to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find her
good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up as it
has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different form to any
I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.


We instructed our PVR to record the whole series and funny enough I watched
the first one in the series tonight, all about wild flower meadows.
Interesting and instructive was my impression and I look forward to viewing
the rest of the series.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

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On 2014-01-14 19:27:51 +0000, David Hill said:

I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I
had to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find
her good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up
as it has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different
form to any I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being
picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.
David @ a rainy side of Swansea Bay.

We've seen it very little, chiefly because of time constraints with
guests during and after Christmas. We saw it last night and enjoyed it
and we do like Christine Walkden. We also liked the straightforward
presenting on 'how to do this' with Toby Buckland. I watched some of
tonight's and while I'm not a fan of Alys Fowler's, I found her
approach and the direction of the programme far preferable to her GW
stuff. That said, we're both tired and I'm afraid we fell asleep. This
really is NOT a reflection on the programme, just a rather taxing few
days recently!
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

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"Martin" wrote

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

"David Hill" wrote

I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I
had
to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find her
good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up as
it
has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different form to
any
I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.


We instructed our PVR to record the whole series and funny enough I
watched
the first one in the series tonight, all about wild flower meadows.
Interesting and instructive was my impression and I look forward to
viewing
the rest of the series.

The first one of the series was before Xmas, in the week that Nelson
Mandela
died. Only three out of five episodes were shown as the result of NM death.
NM
obituaries replaced the programme.

I wouldn't know about that, once I've told the machine to "Record the Whole
Series" it does it automatically no matter what time or day it's shown. It
certainly picked up that there was a big gap over Christmas as I noticed it
recording again and wondered why and checked. Must admit we tend to record
all series we might like to watch to ensure we don't miss any.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

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David Hill wrote:

I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I
had to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find
her good.

I haven't watched all of them yet, but the ones I have seen were
rather good - informative and well-presented. I haven't bothered
to copy them to DVD, but I bet they could sell a few sets.

They clearly originally made them as 20 x 30 minute programmes,
then decided to splice them together, otherwise we would have
flitted randomly between topics, with lots of recapping of what
we had already been shown.

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Plant amazing Acers.

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"David Hill" wrote in message
...
I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I had
to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find her
good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up as
it has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different form to
any I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.
David @ a rainy side of Swansea Bay.

I've seen little of the series due to various commitments, and I find that
if I record stuff I rarely get round to watching it, so nowadays I either
see it when it's on, or let it go. I've gone back to pre-video days I
suppose.

I'm with you on Christine, although like her I grew up in Manchester. So
it's not the accent. I just find a little of her goes a long way.

I didn't think bindweed was taprooted, certainly what we've got isn't like a
dandelion root. Ours has wiggly all over the place roots, and snaps at the
slightest touch, sending several new shoots up, so I'm not convinced of the
efficacy of the "cure" presented last night.

I have mostly liked what I've seen of the series though. Coincidentally, The
gardens with the massive herbaceous border (Arley? Apsley?) was also
featured at lunchtime on one of those flog your crap down the auction
programmes on just before the news.

Steve

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On 15/01/2014 09:41, shazzbat wrote:
"David Hill" wrote in message
...
I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I had
to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find her
good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up as
it has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different form to
any I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.
David @ a rainy side of Swansea Bay.

I've seen little of the series due to various commitments, and I find that
if I record stuff I rarely get round to watching it, so nowadays I either
see it when it's on, or let it go. I've gone back to pre-video days I
suppose.

I'm with you on Christine, although like her I grew up in Manchester. So
it's not the accent. I just find a little of her goes a long way.

I didn't think bindweed was taprooted, certainly what we've got isn't like a
dandelion root. Ours has wiggly all over the place roots, and snaps at the
slightest touch, sending several new shoots up, so I'm not convinced of the
efficacy of the "cure" presented last night.

I have mostly liked what I've seen of the series though. Coincidentally, The
gardens with the massive herbaceous border (Arley? Apsley?) was also
featured at lunchtime on one of those flog your crap down the auction
programmes on just before the news.

Steve


It's a mystery to me how they decide how long a show stays on IPlayer.
Some things stay for months and others disappear quickly. I made a
mental note to catch up on "Britain and the Sea", but it was gone.
Fortunately it was on Pirate Bay.

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On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:05:47 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

"Martin" wrote

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

"David Hill" wrote

I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I
had
to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find her
good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up as
it
has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different form to
any
I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.


We instructed our PVR to record the whole series and funny enough I
watched
the first one in the series tonight, all about wild flower meadows.
Interesting and instructive was my impression and I look forward to
viewing
the rest of the series.

The first one of the series was before Xmas, in the week that Nelson
Mandela
died. Only three out of five episodes were shown as the result of NM death.
NM
obituaries replaced the programme.

I wouldn't know about that, once I've told the machine to "Record the Whole
Series" it does it automatically no matter what time or day it's shown. It
certainly picked up that there was a big gap over Christmas as I noticed it
recording again and wondered why and checked. Must admit we tend to record
all series we might like to watch to ensure we don't miss any.

Hi Bob
What make is your PVR. I wish mine would do that. I have to remember
to set each and every programme I want recorded.

Pam in Bristol

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On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:10:09 +0000, stuart noble
wrote:

On 15/01/2014 09:41, shazzbat wrote:
"David Hill" wrote in message
...
I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I had
to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find her
good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up as
it has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different form to
any I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.
David @ a rainy side of Swansea Bay.

I've seen little of the series due to various commitments, and I find that
if I record stuff I rarely get round to watching it, so nowadays I either
see it when it's on, or let it go. I've gone back to pre-video days I
suppose.

I'm with you on Christine, although like her I grew up in Manchester. So
it's not the accent. I just find a little of her goes a long way.

I didn't think bindweed was taprooted, certainly what we've got isn't like a
dandelion root. Ours has wiggly all over the place roots, and snaps at the
slightest touch, sending several new shoots up, so I'm not convinced of the
efficacy of the "cure" presented last night.

I have mostly liked what I've seen of the series though. Coincidentally, The
gardens with the massive herbaceous border (Arley? Apsley?) was also
featured at lunchtime on one of those flog your crap down the auction
programmes on just before the news.

Steve


It's a mystery to me how they decide how long a show stays on IPlayer.
Some things stay for months and others disappear quickly. I made a
mental note to catch up on "Britain and the Sea", but it was gone.
Fortunately it was on Pirate Bay.

The most annoying thing is when a programme is not avaiable AT ALL on
iPlayer for some reason to do with copyright. That is really
frustrating!

Pam in Bristol

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On 15/01/2014 13:35, Pam Moore wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:10:09 +0000, stuart noble
wrote:

On 15/01/2014 09:41, shazzbat wrote:
"David Hill" wrote in message
...
I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I had
to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find her
good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up as
it has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different form to
any I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.
David @ a rainy side of Swansea Bay.

I've seen little of the series due to various commitments, and I find that
if I record stuff I rarely get round to watching it, so nowadays I either
see it when it's on, or let it go. I've gone back to pre-video days I
suppose.

I'm with you on Christine, although like her I grew up in Manchester. So
it's not the accent. I just find a little of her goes a long way.

I didn't think bindweed was taprooted, certainly what we've got isn't like a
dandelion root. Ours has wiggly all over the place roots, and snaps at the
slightest touch, sending several new shoots up, so I'm not convinced of the
efficacy of the "cure" presented last night.

I have mostly liked what I've seen of the series though. Coincidentally, The
gardens with the massive herbaceous border (Arley? Apsley?) was also
featured at lunchtime on one of those flog your crap down the auction
programmes on just before the news.

Steve


It's a mystery to me how they decide how long a show stays on IPlayer.
Some things stay for months and others disappear quickly. I made a
mental note to catch up on "Britain and the Sea", but it was gone.
Fortunately it was on Pirate Bay.

The most annoying thing is when a programme is not avaiable AT ALL on
iPlayer for some reason to do with copyright. That is really
frustrating!

Pam in Bristol


I suppose they hope to sell it back to the taxpayers who funded it in
the first place

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"Pam Moore" wrote in message
...

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:05:47 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

"Martin" wrote

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

"David Hill" wrote

I am surprised that no one has posted about this series.
I'm finding it good, a different format with a good selection of
presenters, though I just can't take very much of Christine Walkden, I
had
to change channels after almost 15 mins. of her. I know others find her
good.
Then tonight being told how to get rid of bindweed, "don't pull it up
as
it
has a tap-root that can go down a couple of meters" a different form to
any
I have found in a long life of fighting it. But I'm being picky.
Lets have more gardening progs. in this sort of format.


We instructed our PVR to record the whole series and funny enough I
watched
the first one in the series tonight, all about wild flower meadows.
Interesting and instructive was my impression and I look forward to
viewing
the rest of the series.

The first one of the series was before Xmas, in the week that Nelson
Mandela
died. Only three out of five episodes were shown as the result of NM
death.
NM
obituaries replaced the programme.

I wouldn't know about that, once I've told the machine to "Record the
Whole
Series" it does it automatically no matter what time or day it's shown. It
certainly picked up that there was a big gap over Christmas as I noticed
it
recording again and wondered why and checked. Must admit we tend to record
all series we might like to watch to ensure we don't miss any.

Hi Bob
What make is your PVR. I wish mine would do that. I have to remember
to set each and every programme I want recorded.


This is the latest version of what we have, it's Freesat so uses our old Sky
dish (we gave Sky up years ago), but they also do Freeview ones for ordinary
ariels.
http://www1.humaxdirect.co.uk/Direct...7-d1f38dd11f79

--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

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On 15/01/2014 10:10, stuart noble wrote:

I'm with you on Christine, although like her I grew up in Manchester. So
it's not the accent. I just find a little of her goes a long way.

I didn't think bindweed was taprooted, certainly what we've got isn't
like a
dandelion root. Ours has wiggly all over the place roots, and snaps at the
slightest touch, sending several new shoots up, so I'm not convinced of the
efficacy of the "cure" presented last night.

I have mostly liked what I've seen of the series though. Coincidentally,
The
gardens with the massive herbaceous border (Arley? Apsley?) was also
featured at lunchtime on one of those flog your crap down the auction
programmes on just before the news.

Steve

As you say Steve, bindweed has white, brittle roots that ramble all over
the place. Definitely no tap-root, But the method shown does work well,
but it's best if you put on a plastic/rubber glove with a woollen glove,
or old sock over it, then dip your hand into the mix of weed killer and
draw your hand over the bindweed (or any other weed that you want to
spot treat) this prevents spray drift, and if you do it in the evening
then you wont have the weed killer evaporating and spreading fume around.
I also saw our "Antique expert" being given a bit of the story of the
gardens,
Well if you have a camera crew and all the hanger ons it makes sense to
get all you can out of them.
David @ a yet again rain swept side of Swansea Bay.

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On 2014-01-15 17:49:05 +0000, David Hill said:

On 15/01/2014 10:10, stuart noble wrote:

I'm with you on Christine, although like her I grew up in Manchester. So
it's not the accent. I just find a little of her goes a long way.

I didn't think bindweed was taprooted, certainly what we've got isn't
like a
dandelion root. Ours has wiggly all over the place roots, and snaps at the
slightest touch, sending several new shoots up, so I'm not convinced of the
efficacy of the "cure" presented last night.

I have mostly liked what I've seen of the series though. Coincidentally,
The
gardens with the massive herbaceous border (Arley? Apsley?) was also
featured at lunchtime on one of those flog your crap down the auction
programmes on just before the news.

Steve

As you say Steve, bindweed has white, brittle roots that ramble all
over the place. Definitely no tap-root, But the method shown does work
well, but it's best if you put on a plastic/rubber glove with a woollen
glove, or old sock over it, then dip your hand into the mix of weed
killer and draw your hand over the bindweed (or any other weed that you
want to spot treat) this prevents spray drift, and if you do it in the
evening then you wont have the weed killer evaporating and spreading
fume around.
I also saw our "Antique expert" being given a bit of the story of the gardens,
Well if you have a camera crew and all the hanger ons it makes sense to
get all you can out of them.
David @ a yet again rain swept side of Swansea Bay.

I didn't see the bit in which someone was told that convolvulus has a
taproot but that's a little worrying! Misinformation is worse than none
at all, imo. Try to dig down to find a tap root for convolvulus and
you'll (potentially)end up snapping off and up setting up minute bits
of the real root all over your flower beds, from which it will merrily
spring as new plants. Not helpful!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

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On 1/15/2014 5:32 PM, Martin wrote:

We have the older 500Mbyte model. It is possible to buy refurbished Humax PVRs
and STB with a full guarantee fir substantially less than the normal discount
shop price. http://www1.humaxdirect.co.uk/Direct...sat?ck=factory

Ooh. I've bookmarked that - thank you.