On 02/09/2013 07:43, Derek wrote:
On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 15:06:06 +0100, Spider wrote:


I confess I loved Toby Buckland's handling of GW and wish
the BBC had left him at the helm to work in his own way.


I agree, but he did get a lot of stick from this newsgroup, I still
watch GW, love Beechcroft, and this summer finally got to visit
'Barnsdale' a great day out, (except for the Garden Center that is on
site, which was poor)

It seems as if a lot of the moans about Monty come from the older
members who have been watching GW for many years some from Percy
Throwers days, that means that we have seen the same info delivered in
many ways by a number of presenters, and we all have our favourite from
the past.
A lot of the info is there for the newer gardeners, and whilst he
doesn't talk about using peat and chemicals I find his presentation good.
As far as chemicals are concerned it's easy to recommend something, but
"Our friends" in Europe are probably going to remove it in the next few
months.