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Beechgrove, 17th June

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  Posted by Colin (U2252951) on Saturday, 20th June 2009

  Boring!
  
  I kept dragging the slider on the iPlayer, thinking *surely* they've finished with the allotmenteers! But not, the hippies were still on, flaunting the fecundity of their loins.
  
  Plus the silly credit-crunch garden AGAIN!
  
  Whisper it, but I enjoyed GW more this week.
  
  Crivens! I understood the odd word they were saying!

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  Posted by Petalina (U13862206) on Saturday, 20th June 2009

  I thought it was boring too

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  Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Monday, 22nd June 2009

  Hippies? There were none. Fecundity of their loins? A couple of women (not hippies and not even vaguely dressed in any remotely hippy style) with young children spoke of how they share a plot and how they've got their kids involved by letting them have a small patch of it to call their own, to grow some spuds and a few ideas on quick-growing stuff was offered as a way of maintaining young interest. A couple of blokes (in their 20s?) described how each took on a plot as a way of getting some fresh air and exercise - time away from a computer screen. The rest comprised more mature gardeners with not a child in sight. Hardly fecundity of loins. Advice was given on how to use comfrey as a fertilise amongst other things. All very useful and interesting IMO. And done in a non-patronising fashion with advice on what and what not to put in a compost heap (and why). Plus how a plot is being used by a local community health group as a way of providing support and therapy to a particular group (mental health) and the gains from that to the individuals concerned.
  
  The credit cruch garden - ah well, yes they are getting a bit out of whack with that as a sicilian mint lawn with many pots of it being bought wasn't exactly frugal. And to graw a globe artichoke or two you're going to require quite a bit of space many of us don't have.
  
  All-in-all the positives certainly outweighed the negatives for me.

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