[The Singing Gardener]

I run a production company that deals with TV and Radio programmes. I have a keen interest in allotment gardening and am looking at developing a new gardening programme.

What do you want from a gardening programme?
What do you feel that you don't get from current TV / Radio programmes?
What would you prefer TV or Radio programme?
Would you download a radio programme for you mp3 or ipod and listen while you garden?

Tell me what you want and are looking for from a gardening programme and let's make a programme for real gardeners and not just quick fix programmes.

[Ice]

Blimey, you don't know what you've started.   Not short of an opinion or three on here.

[Sally A]

I think GQT is too flowers and shrubs, more veg items.  I like listening to Terry Wotsit from the Rhondda Valley when he's on Radio 2, knows his stuff but not poncy.

[The Singing Gardener]

We have a contact with Terry Walton from the Rhondda.

Views about presenters is useful as well. Which ones have been good? Which ones are bad? What do you look for in a presenter? Male? Female? Both? How many? Young? Old?

Do you like the jiggy camera work? or prefer a traditional feel?

[Aunt Sally]

Yes most programs are aimed at "gardeners" i.e. what you have outside your back door.  Lawn, flowers, shrubs, trees and only a tiny smattering of fruit and veg.

So more fruit and veg programs including soil preparation and crop rotation.

I like radio progs so I can do other things at the same time.

[babe]

i like tv and we want more chickens too,  a nice male presenter...mid 30's, single tall with dark hair and blue eyes. not too skinny but not a chubster either. cute bum and strong arms......and a sense of humour and can explain it to us newbies who havent a clue as well as tips for those more experienced.

oh and i'll happilly hold his spade for him if you need me too.

swoon

[WG.]

i like tv and we want more chickens too,  a nice male presenter...mid 30's, single tall with dark hair and blue eyes. not too skinny but not a chubster either. cute bum and strong arms......and a sense of humour and can explain it to us newbies who havent a clue as well as tips for those more experienced.

I can tick most of these boxes.  Where & when are the auditions being held?

[babe]

you have to tick all boxes...im very fussy

and anyhoo waggy your on the norty step ....

[brucesgirl]

This is just my personal opinion. I would like to see an allotment being worked week by week. I want the presenter to be the one who does all the work, not a team of helpers who do it during the week so he can take the credit on a Friday night!
I want the soil to be problematic, not a lovely loam, and I want a list of the seeds used to be online.
Ideally, two allotments, one in the south of Britain, one in the north, to compare planting times and yields.
I want less visits to 'gardens' of acres in size, and I don't want a woman swanning about in a floral dress never getting dirty.

Hows that to be going on with?
 

[babe]

but brucie in a floral dress will be welcome

[Selkie]

I don't want a woman swanning about in a floral dress never getting dirty.


 

  I quite often do my gardening in a flowery dress

[babe]

but i dont want to watch a barbara woodhouse type

[Selkie]

but i dont want to watch a barbara woodhouse type

I'm not like her at least

[gobs]

i like tv and we want more chickens too,  a nice male presenter...mid 30's, single tall with dark hair and blue eyes. not too skinny but not a chubster either. cute bum and strong arms......and a sense of humour and can explain it to us newbies who havent a clue as well as tips for those more experienced.

I can tick most of these boxes.  Where & when are the auditions being held?

Sure enough you have a sense of humour.

[gobs]

I don't want a woman swanning about in a floral dress never getting dirty.


 

  I quite often do my gardening in a flowery dress

Might that be anything to do with the state of your pear trees? :roll: