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Posted by Excommune (U14000081) on Friday, 29th May 2009
OK, so I am not in the first flush of youth but the current format of Gardners' World seems designed to appeal to the Short Attention Time echelon and I hope I will not get too infirm to be able to press the OFF button on Fridays. By the way, Radio 4 at three o'clock on Fridays is entertaining and informative.
Please see if you can find someone/people like the wise, avancular and much missed Geoff Hamilton to present this programme.
If you have been, thank's for reading.
It was much much better tonight
A bit more adult
new gw is a slap in the face.
protect the stems of clematis with SHARP BROKEN POTTERY! that is the worst idea since eugenics.
Darren old chap - Eugenics are endemic in the garden and throughout horti / agriculuture - we'd all be starving if they weren't.
Gardeners and farmers down the ages have all been selecting for a master race and have been so successful in theit pursuit that most folk would not recognise the natural forebears of any plant we eat or grow for decoration.
not talking about plants , dude.
If you're not talking about plants Darren - one wonders whether you are in the right place !
And if you could see me you'd not describe me as a dude - far from it, so far to be almost opposite - a sort of Johnny Kingdom crossed with Fred Dibnah.
i am talking about protecting clematis stems with sharp pottery... just a bad move . as for being a dude, if you go your own way , do your own thing without worrying about others opinions, i would say you are a dude.
It wasn't the stems that were being protected but extra shade was being given to the roots (clematis generally like their heads in the sun and their feet in the shade) and if the pottery was sharp it might even help to keep the slugs away.
" ... and if the pottery was sharp it might even help to keep the slugs away."
If that were true then every pot-maker in the country would smash their pots and make a fortune in the anti-slug trade ... which is not the case, because it's not true. Slugs will slime their way over just about anything to get to their choice plants.
In fact, what Buckland showed on GW will have precisely the opposite effect and will ATTRACT SLUGS because he provided the perfect slug habitat - cool and moist and protected.
Very true Blue!!!!
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