building cloches with Geoff Hamilton

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Trillium

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« on: February 15, 2007, 18:32 »
Perhaps this is old hat to many lotty owners with cloches, but I loved Geoff Hamilton's homemade cloches which I keep in my Favourites listing. It's hard to track on that site. Plan to make several when the snow lets up. This is the video clip site.

bbc.co.uk/gardening/today_in_your_garden/geoffhamilton_index.shtml

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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2007, 01:13 »
I remember watching this years ago.....why aren't there more garden programs that show this sort of thing nowadays.

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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2007, 11:54 »
fantastic, I agree with ziggywigs, much more help than that grow your own veg that's just been on. surely there must be another Geoff Hamilton out there somewhere?
If Life gives you lemons, - Make Lemonade

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« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2007, 14:25 »
Munty is a sort of rude Geoff Hamilton but John is more polite, so perhaps they could combine?
Self-sufficient in rasberries and bindweed. Slug pellets can be handy.

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« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2007, 20:28 »
me rude ,, in which way ? :(
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« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2007, 20:34 »
your not rude mate its the way other folks twist things around  :wink:
feed the soil not the plants
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you learn gardening by making mistakes

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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2007, 09:20 »
Quote from: "muntjac"
me rude ,, in which way ? :(



dunnow :shock:
always have a target
and an objective.

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« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2007, 12:24 »
nah noshed im a gentleman really xxx  :lol:  :wink: ... honest you should see me on duty  :twisted: . im brusque .. if anything but if i do come across as rude ,im sorrryyyy :cry:

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« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2007, 22:36 »
Brusque... marvellous

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« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2007, 10:48 »
Anyway the BBC should show more of thiat sort of stuff, which actually gives you useful information, as opposed to a whole programme of someone squealing over veg.

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« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2007, 11:21 »
Well they have the Salvager and the Reclaimers, so why not a Garden Reclaimers???

I quite enjoyed the Big Dig, as it showed real people and what they got up to, rather than posh people being paid loadsa money to show us very little.  Some of thm don't live in the real world.

I watched a bit of Geoff Hamilton on one of the Sky channelslast night, talking about cloches.  For a small area he says you can get these French bell cloches, but they are about £78 each,  or the English Victorian one, but they are about £138 each.  Or this one made out of a bit of plastic tub, coveed in cling film cost about tuppence!!!!  (That's the one I liked!!!)

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« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2007, 11:36 »
Thanks Trillium for the link,
I've just made my first cloche as suggested by Geoff Hamilton and I've got enough stuff to make another 5. each being 4foot by 10foot.

Hate to think how much ready made ones would have cost.
Try my best to be Organic but don't always make it

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« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2007, 16:38 »
Glad everyone has enjoyed and made use of the cloche site. Wish I could find more, but it's hard digging  :wink: to find in the BBC website. When Geoff's tv series, Ornamental Kitchen Garden was shown in Canada, I copied all the shows and about twice a year I watch them again to put me in gardening fettle again, recharge my creative batteries and remind me of ideas of his which I want to build. I remember the pricey French glass cloche, but Geoff also built one shaped a bit like a pyramid out of plexi and something else. Forget the name of another of his tv show where he did the 'gentleman's garden' and the 'budget garden' in similar styles but in appropriate products. Have that on tape as well and watch it yearly. I only wish he'd built the affordable greenhouse as I'd love to have one.  :D

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« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2007, 17:18 »
Five weeks ago I was given a bag full of old books for the school spring fair. Just started to go through them and couldn't believe my eyes!!

            ' Successful Organic Gardening by Geoff Hamilton '

There is even ' making a DIY greenhouse' - it's a mini polytunnel

                                         Fantastic!!

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Trillium

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« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2007, 18:08 »
Good score, Little Sweetpeas. I don't have that one but would like to. Must start haunting used book stores once the weather is tolerable again. I always liked Geoff's common sense info. Bob Flowerdew is also good and I have most of his books.



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