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Beechgrove 3rd June

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  Posted by Amazing (U7102651) on Wednesday, 3rd June 2009

  So did anyone else watch it?

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  Posted by welshcol (U2301689) on Thursday, 4th June 2009

  I could have done with a reminder but luckily was on auto record. Yet to watch but looking forward to it.
  

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  Posted by Sam (U13967940) on Thursday, 4th June 2009

  Watching it now for the first time on iPlayer and it actually is great!

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  Posted by dwarfbean (U13754109) on Thursday, 4th June 2009

  I've just watched it on iPlayer now that I have been given a way of receiving it by AOL. I was sent a program called AOL DESKTOP. When I use that I am in the UK when I use AOL I am in foreign parts.
  
  Still, Beechgrove was great.
  
  dwarfbean

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  Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Thursday, 4th June 2009

  I'm watching it on iPlayer right now.
  
  Aiieee!!! All those containers with unwanted plants from the communal garden... straight in the skip!! Aiieee! if it were me I'd have got rid of the unwanted plants but kept the containers for a thorough cleaning & re-used them! What a waste.
  
  Love the programme though.

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  Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Thursday, 4th June 2009

  And the bumble bee nest... couldn't they just work around it? It's one thing accidentally breaking into a nest - but they didn't - they found it and could have left it undisturbed. After all, we *need* bees!

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  Posted by Amazing (U7102651) on Thursday, 4th June 2009

  Wafflycat at the end you can see it is still in the corner:

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  Posted by PenylanSue (U13901201) on Thursday, 4th June 2009

  Yes, I did and for all those of you that keep knocking GW, what did you think of:- the expensive plants bought from a garden centre, plants raised from plugs, raised beds, and obelisks. Visit to a very big private garden. You all complain if GW does it. Beechgrove is a TV garden but is simply more mature now as Greenacres will be one day.
  The community gardening was a joke. It just needed a good tidy up and lots of stuff could have been saved. All those pots need watering. Some raised beds would have been better! and easier for some of the residents.
  The best bit was the veg growing but not everyone likes that part.
  Gardeners World is OK and I like Beechgrove too.

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  Posted by kath74 (U8999103) on Friday, 5th June 2009

  Aiieee!!! All those containers with unwanted plants from the communal garden... straight in the skip!! 
  
  I thought the same at first, but I think the lady who'd collected the plants admitted at one point that her 'any container will do' policy was part of the problem. If they wanted to replace them with better ones they didn't have much choice but to throw them out.

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  Posted by Pumpkin (U13922940) on Friday, 5th June 2009

  Always amazes me how much they get into 30 mins,I like most gardening programmes except the one a few years ago with that Irish guy in and some trainees he made it seem like brain surgery,as for Beechgrove the waste of pots and plants was just wrong but nice to see the Ö÷²¥´óÐã in a real garden and not a celebrity country pile with several acres.

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  Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Friday, 5th June 2009

  "Wafflycat at the end you can see it is still in the corner"
  
  Yes, I know it was, but *during* the programme it was said they were in contact with someone about moving it.

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  Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Friday, 5th June 2009

  "I thought the same at first, but I think the lady who'd collected the plants admitted at one point that her 'any container will do' policy was part of the problem. If they wanted to replace them with better ones they didn't have much choice but to throw them out."
  
  I still think it was an awful waste. There's loads of ways contains can be reused & disguised if necessary. Still love the programme though

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  Posted by green-buddha (U11615833) on Friday, 5th June 2009

  I expect my news is old news, but for anyone who doesn't yet know it (I didn't find out myself until last week) Ö÷²¥´óÐã1 Scotland and Beechgrove are now both available south of the border on Virgin Cable TV. This gives the option of watching Beechgrove 'live' as it goes out, or later on the big screen via the Ö÷²¥´óÐã 'watch again' TV iPlayer facility.
  
  This has enabled me to recapture the excitement of Friday nights because now at 8pm on Friday, if I so choose, I can watch Wednesday's edition of Beechgrove instead of GW.

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  Posted by pinktequila (U2803141) on Friday, 5th June 2009

  yes moving it and putting it somewhere else, not destroying it.

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  Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Friday, 5th June 2009

  I didn't say they were destroying it. Simply questioning the *need* to move it. It's not an easy thing moving a bumble bee nest. It's one thing moving a nest if you've accidentally uncovered & broken into it - but quite another IMO, for convenience sake. Bumble bees are *needed* and they are under threat, they are the gardeners' friends as they pollinate our crops and they are the most placid of creatures, far, far less likely to sting than a honey bee.I've got a couple of nests in my garden and you can stand mere inches away from the nest access points and the bees will completely ignore you, just getting on with the things bees do. Bees need our help and to move a nest for convenience sake is not something I'd ever condone. No matter how much I like Beechgrove!

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  Posted by Colin (U2252951) on Friday, 5th June 2009

  "Skiping" so much made a complete mockery of BG's sanctimonious homilies on the 'credit-crunch garden'. Complete hypocrites, very disappointing.
  
  P.S. Couldn't understand a word they were saying. Hoots!
  
  

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  Posted by welshcol (U2301689) on Sunday, 7th June 2009

  Eventually got around to see it, most enjoyable as normal. Great to see "the other Carol" back still sympathize with poor Jim with all the female hormones around but he seems to handle it well. Very impressed with the trials and yet again when you look back on a programme just how much they get through in 30 minutes. There is only one problem and no criticism of BG but since things must be 3-4 weeks later than us South of the border have to adjust and be a bit telepathic with things to do and current state of the plants etc.
  Take care and good gardening & dont work too hard.

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  Posted by invitrospud (U9374118) on Monday, 8th June 2009

  "Skiping" so much made a complete mockery of BG's sanctimonious homilies on the 'credit-crunch garden'. Complete hypocrites, very disappointing.
  
  P.S. Couldn't understand a word they were saying. Hoots!
  
  
  JJ Carter - I completely agree - all those clay pots should have been saved and used again. Also couldn't understand why they didn't keep the lovely Centaura.
  
  Your comment about "not understanding a word" is now becoming very tedious and of course very insulting, but of course it's the sort of arrogance we have come to expect from those 'down south', and you didn't disappoint.

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  Posted by Amazing (U7102651) on Monday, 8th June 2009

  invitrospud Thanxx for saving me from saying that or worst: Where are you then?

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  Posted by invitrospud (U9374118) on Tuesday, 9th June 2009

  Hi Amazing - I am just outside the capital, and coincidentally my sister lives in Stockbridge, near where they did the problem corner - thankfully she does not have a bare concrete patch like that!

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