Mr Smith's gardening book

I was looking through my bookshelf last night to find something completely non gardening when  I came across a book I bought in 1974 ish  called Mr Smith's gardening book written by Geoffrey Smith and Arthur Bilitt that complemented the TV series called Mr Smiths Gardening


as i undrstand Geoffrey smith had 4 books from that sereries and i just wondered if anyone had read or bought Geoffrey smith's books as i only bought 1 at the time but that book still makes interesting reading and i think his gardening series was more informative that the presnt day gardening programs and ofcause this was caried on by the late great Geoff Hamilton

Some of Geoffrey Smith's gardening programmes are on youtube, from those days when gardeners used to get a full hour programme every week 

that's music to my ears Goosegirl how rite you are I'm pleased some agrees with me unfortunately the good old beeb insists on letting those people who pretend to know about gardening put on. sorry try to put on a good  act I feel sorry for Monty as he's obviously been told to tell um nothing keep um in the dark and feed um B--------t the best part of those programs is when they visit a proper gardener on his allotment they mite do well to visit John Harrison's allotments that would definitely be worth watching 

does anyone know if Geoffrey Smith is still with us? perhaps we could get him back on gardeners world because if I remember both him and Geoff Hamilton never promoted buying plants from garden centres when you could grow them yourselves yes bring 'um back the sooner the better

thanks  Mum I never thought about youtube and yes JAX64 Readers Digest food from the garden another good book worth reading although we never had one but most of the old gardeners swore by it

He was a great favourite of my father. I still have one of his books, " A Passion For Plants", which belonged to my father.

I thought that was a description of Geoff Hamilton Goosegirl and I'm going to look out for those books because one can never get enough gardening information from a true gardener like Geoff  was talking of tight jeans I remember when we last visited Barnsdale there was a pair of Geoff's old jeans hanging up for some charity or other

sorry to hear Geoffrey Smith died miken  he was a good presenter well worth watching and its a pleasure to still read and enjoy his books

anyway thanks all for those replies