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Posted by Amazing (U7102651) on Wednesday, 29th April 2009
I thought I would start a comments thread for Beechgrove Garden: I expect all posts to be positive though
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Great minds think alike I have just posted on your "other" BG thread-you are like a phantom poster-they seek her here they seek her there!!.
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Posted by Scotsgardener (U13901027) on Wednesday, 29th April 2009
Is it on tonight?
AX
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I live in East Anglia, and haven't got Sky. But I do have Virgin cable tv. Does anyone happen to know whether Beechgrove is available on cable?
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Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Wednesday, 29th April 2009
Those of us who live in parts that, when a Scot reads the map it says "Here be Dragons", have to watch Beechgrove on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú iPlayer. The newest edition of Beechgrove is not yet on iPlayer, so we have to
*does Janet of Dr Findlay accent*
"wait a wee while"
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I love Beechgrove Garden. It is a proper gardening programme that tells you how to grow plants !
My daughter comes round to watch it as it is not on Freeview in NW England and she has no internet.
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Posted by Scotsgardener (U13901027) on Wednesday, 29th April 2009
*whispers* I was a Problem Corner on Beechgrove Garden back in 2002.
It's the hardest concerted slog in the garden I've ever done - before or since. That Carol is a tough taskmaster, y'know!
It was a great - if nerve-wracking - experience and if you've got a wee Problem area you should apply to see if they can help you.
Sadly, those of you in Wales and Darn Sarf won't qualify!
AX
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Scotsgardener where abouts are you? I'm in Sunny Dunbar:
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Is BG just about growing vegetables ?
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A very good programme, as usual. The best for me was definitely the informative, clearly shown and brilliantly explained asparagus bed and planting. The excellent, down-to-earth Beechgrove demonstration and explanation highlighted just how shabby and unprofessional GW's coverage of the same subject was last Friday.
Whilst I really did not like the hammy acting (please don't go down that road BG, you're much too good for that), Leslie's garden plan was clearly shown, as was its building and I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product throughout the programme. Those wall planters looked interesting too.
For anyone interested in fruit trees Jim, as usual, gave explanations that were clear and backed up by good camerawork which meant I was able to understand how it should be done and, perhaps more importantly, why.
In short, (nearly) as brilliant as usual, and I don't grow veggies or fruit, but one day .....
Keep up the good work Beechgrove
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Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Thursday, 30th April 2009
No, Petalina, is not just about growing veg. Previous weeks have seen a range of types of gardening covered.
I'm concerned though.. this week's programme does not appear to be on iPlayer yet? I wonder if there's some sort of problem? Has Beechgrove been hacked by a jealous GW?
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Posted by blackeyedsusan (U2456655) on Thursday, 30th April 2009
Further to all this, the Beechgrove website is excellent too - you can read a very full summary of each programme afterwards, and there are also loads of useful factsheets which are downloadable, but best of all the website is extremely well designed and easy to get around.
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Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Thursday, 30th April 2009
Yes, blackeyedsusan - the website is good - easy on the eye, full of useful information and the factsheets are extensive. Full marks for that.
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wc it is usually not on iplayer until Thursday evening: next weeks may not be on iplayer as it involves a community garden;
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Posted by Scotsgardener (U13901027) on Thursday, 30th April 2009
I've asked them (via the website) if they would consider keeping bees....and the response was that it's something that they might consider again.
Apparently they used to have bees, but they didn't really have enough staff to do all the necessary work and they failed to thrive
I've got a bit of a bee in my bonnet about, well, bees at the moment. See the Who Killed The Honey Bee thread elsewhere on this forum
AX
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Posted by Scotsgardener (U13901027) on Thursday, 30th April 2009
*waves* Hi Amazing! - I'm on the island of Bute on the West Coast.
AX
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island of Bute Â
Lovely place, we visited last year & were very lucky with the weather.
I haven't seen BG yet, I assumed it was on at 7.30 so I missed it, will have to wait for iplayer.
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Hi Scotsgardener: Lovely place Bute:
Beechgrove not on iplayer yet; time 2;25:
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We really enjoy watching Beechgrove we saw it mentioned on this site last year and have been fans
ever since.We find it's down to earth and they explain everything so easy to understand.
We can get Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Scotland via our sky dish here in Wales.
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I could be really wrong (happens all the time!), but I thought it wasn't on this week cos of ..... snooker or some such stuff? Anyone know?
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Posted by cymrulandgirl (U13941268) on Thursday, 30th April 2009
Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Wales not showing a gardening programme, now thats unusual - not.
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Saw the S4C gardening programme Byw yn yr Ardd, tonight 8-25pm, as suggested on a previous post, with sub-titles I am ashamed to say, and it was a passable, quite watchable gardening programme not unfortunately up to BG standard but better than nothing.
Cant see it on next weeks schedule perhaps once a month. Give it a try on i-player if available.
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Posted by Scotsgardener (U13901027) on Thursday, 30th April 2009
If anyone missed Wednesday' Beechgrove (like me!) it's on on Sunday on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú2 (Scotland only) but if you skulk about the Sky listings, you might be able to find it
Still not on i-player
AX
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It appears that Beechgrove is not going to be available this week via iplayer: Sorry if you haven't seen it:
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Well that's just not on!
Having only ever seen one programme via i-player and consequently signing up to the fan club I am very disappointed.
I was planning to watch it tonight while eating my tea.
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ooh noooo, I was looking forward to watching it
I live in Yorkshire so have to watch it on iplayer.
Does anyone no why its not on iplayer this week??!!
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Possibly due to 'rights issues'
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Should have read this thread before trying to find it on i-player! Was looking forward to it. J.
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Nooooo I normaly save it to watch on sunday morning! I will see if its on Vigins catch up tv on demand.
Thanks for the heads up about next week being a community garden, I am a lover of Beechgrove garden, but watching kiddies play with trowels?Pah! not for me.
I hate children, not beechgrove
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What utter bungling by the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú. Not a single minute of gardening programming available for a the bank holiday weekend, just snooker and a failure to put BG on iPlayer. Feeble.
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Very annoying, I had planned to watch it tonight in place of Gardener's World,
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Some good news for Beechgrove viewers in the first part of this article:
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OOOoooops who did that then?
I've found it at 12 noon on Sunday, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Scotland, so I've set the sky+ box. How mean that it's not on iplayer.
Bah! I was looking forward to watching BG on iPlayer!
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So was I, this is just not good enough Aunty Beeb.
I need my fix.
dwarfbean
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Amazing, it was me. I posted a link to an article in The Telegraph in which Beechgrove was mentioned.
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Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Saturday, 2nd May 2009
I've just had a shuftie through the Sky stuff..
Sky 990, Sunday, noon. Beechgrove! And.. this southerner has just checked.. she can get Sky 990! Hurrah! I can get a Beechgrove fix even though it's not on iPlayer!
*oh happy, happy day*
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A very good point: the busiest gardening bank holiday w/e of the year and NOTHING for gardeners unless you have a Sky box or live in Scotland.
What is this 'rights issue' issue? Why haven't all the other Beechgrove programmes which have been on i-player until now been affected by this 'rights issue'. Could it be that Beechgrove is blowing GW off the stage and causing a lot of red faces in Beeb land?
To be fair there was a GW REPEAT on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú HD last night in the 8pm slot of Joe and his French connection which was abysmal IMHO the first time around confirmed by being repeated.
Come on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú pull your socks up.
Like everyone here I was a wee bit peeved, to say the least that Beechgrove is not on iplayer as I missed programme. I have only just discovered today that it is on Sun at 12pm, phew, but I suspect it may appear on iplayer after tomorrow, well we can but hope.
Watched BG on Sky990 this lunchtime. What a nice way to spend half-an-hour on a Sunday.
What I like about BG is that they show the failures - explain why they think something has failed and what they are going to do to try to learn from it. The asparagus item seems much more detailed than when done in a certain other programme - more carefully done - at least it seemed that way. Banter too, but it didn't detract too much from the gardening content. I've set a reminder for Wednesday evening's programme on Sky990, so I can see it even though I'm not in Bonnie Scotland.
I See it won't be on iplayer, they are advertising the next episode now. I wish we could get a proper explanation. I find it resally annoying. MAybe a apology on the iplayer site
>I wish we could get a proper explanation.<
That only plausible one is that the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú powers-that-be know the GW is so awful they've banned the 'competition' from Scotland.
I think the explanation is that the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú is full of snooker and sport fans (don't count snooker as a sport!) who don't care about all the frustrated gardeners out there. No gardening at all - awful or otherwise - over the holiday weekend. I have not yet managed to track down Beechgrove on I-player or anywhere else since I discovered its existence - I live in Bedfordshire. Very poor show Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú.
Just a reminder for tonight: Please use this thread for comments: Remember it may not be on iplayer due to 'rights issues' It is in Tain and they are doing community gardening:
Amazing
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Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Wednesday, 6th May 2009
Amazing: What are these 'rights issues' you keep referring to? It is actually scheduled to the on iPlayer - link already given on other thread. And if you look here
it seems that episode 5 is going to be on iPlayer after all.
Plus I've had it in email from Beechgrove that it is due to be on iPlayer.
I'm not having a dig at you, I am genuinely interested as to what these 'rights issues' are.
Steam coming out of ears!!!!!!! Beechgrove Garden is not available to watch live but Dan is???? Phoned Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú and was told to watch it on iplayer:
The rights to show it, presumably.
Perhaps someone in England forgot to pay those in Scotland the DVD rental.
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