Keeping on top of things
Hi All
Everyone at GW HQ is just as disappointed as you all to be off air for another two weeks. But we can help you out on the blog with a few tips to keep your garden blooming:
To prolong flowering, deadheading is extremely important at this time of the year - but
herbs like basil and parsley, should not be allowed to flower at all. Nip out the flower buds as soon as you spot them and this will encourage the plant to keep producing lots of lovely, tasty leaves. Meanwhile chives and nasturtiums can be left to flower merrily. Have you tried using the flower heads in your salads - they are edible and look gorgeous too.
Feeding is also important in July - a good weekly liquid feed is essential to help your plants flourish by giving them all the right nutrients in the correct proportions. For more feeding tips please visit our useful guide.
Usually we'd be reminding you to continue watering your plants in July, however if you've been hit with the downpour of rain that's been affecting a lot of the UK, hopefully you've been collecting this in your water butts. Although please don't forget to water your containers - pots dry out easily and rain showers never quite get enough moisture to the roots, so give all potted plants a good soaking too.
Pest and disease control is also vital and the best organic way to help your plants fight off disease is to regularly inspect them and to remove dead or dying material. This prevents the spread of fungal and other diseases from infected leaves and is particularly important with roses in areas where black spot is a problem. If you're not sure what's wrong with your plant, try our Pest and disease identifier.
Finally continue harvesting courgettes and other crops and sowing salads to ensure your crops continue through the summer.
That's all for now, enjoy your gardening weekend.
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So Gardeners world starts late in the year when we have all started sowing, and gets constantly pushed off the scheduling for seemingly every other sporting event. I think it's outrageous - it's the only national gardening programme, why are its viewers treated so shabbily - anyone know?
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Put your bloody foots down then. We need a gardeninig programme.
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Why doesn't Gardeners' World do what Channel Five does with many of its shows (Gadget Show, Fifth Gear etc) when they're off air, and have a web show - even if it's only 10 minutes long - each week that we can watch? Having GW booted off air to make way for other supposedly more important programmes is bad enough, but not having any current, up to date web footage is utterly outrageous! It's all very well wringing your hands and blaming other BBC departments for your woes, GW cheeses, but try to be a bit more proactive!
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4 channels, and the BBC cannot find a space for Gardeners world. It beggars believe. What are we paying our licence fee for.
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I agree with everyone here.
I'm getting fed up of the irregular programming. After the massive break the show had recently I was expecting it to run for at least 3 or 4 weeks before disappearing again.
I've given up looking forward to it now, because I'm often left disappointed.
Instead I've started tuning into Beechgrove Garden (the Scottish equivalent of GW) through iPlayer as it's more reliable, and very rarely goes longer than a week without being shown.
If you really are discontented with the situation yourselves, at Gardeners' World, have a tantrum about it rather than just shrugging and letting the bloody Proms and Athletics fill your time slot.
And with all the repeats on BBC Three and BBC Four, surely they wouldn't be missed above a newly produced episode.
At least we have the RHS Show from Tatton Park next week, despite it being a very small consolation as a 30 minute programme.
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I must admit that I agree with most of the previous bloggers. I was looking forward to watching Gardeners World last night as the previous episode was so interesting and was furious when I realised the Proms were on instead. The only consolation is that I have last weeks programme still on my planner and Hampton Court show so I have been watching those!! It really is getting a bit tedious with your programme being dropped for any event. I am sure I am not the only person to think that GW is the highlight of the TV week!
I do like reading the Blogs however and appreciate the tips about what to do this week.
Looking forward to watching the Tatton Park programmes too.
T
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Well I don't want blogs, I'd like a regular, informative gardening programme to be shown. I'm both frustrated with this series, and disappointed with the scheduling decisions that have allowed this series to taken off air far too many times. How can the series expect to develop any relationship with its audience, and if you read much of the criticism of the series you'll know how critical that development was.
So I am giving up. I wanted a series about plants, but either the series itself spent too much type in a frenzied aping of 'yoof' TV, or told me how to plant a container in a a 'half hour challenge', I may not be the most experienced gardener in the world, but I wanted to be treated with some intelligence and I wanted to learn about plants. So farewell GW, I can't bear to watch any more, and when I try, you're not there! Believe me it upsets me more than it will affect anyone involved in the programme or management of the BBC, but it just shows the low esteem with which the corporation views the millions of gardeners around the country. Ita's a real shame. Au revoir.
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The BBC in one hand are trying to get more of us to grow our own and in the other are taking Gardeners World off the TV, starting it later when we need it on in late February, to show us how to grow from seed, then stopping and starting the show to the extent you do not know when it is on. I also subscribe to the magazine, but there really is no point if they keep canceling the show, so I am going to stop and save my money, especially when the BBC are blesssed with BBC3 and BBC4 and IPlayer which could be used to show the athletics and the Proms or they could use the red button.
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have to agree, getting cheesed off with the bbc simply dumping the friday show, at the prime time off the year for things growing and no gardeners world, the show is really useful for hints etc, not impressed beeb.
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Yes totally agree - come on BBC this is peak gardening season and no gardening programme to watch. I dont mind if it has to move to a different slot or different channel just as long as it is there - most people have the facility to record it and watch when they like. Toby could have a foot long beard by the time we see him next !!
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