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Gardeners World Toby Buckland- Farewell but not for long!Hello all It's been some time since we last updated this blog but it was for a good reason. We have pooled all the best of BBC gardening into one new blog! The BBC Gardening Blog launched at the beginning of October 2010. We hope you'll be as pleased as us to know that our regular bloggers will include Alys Fowler from Gardeners' World, Jim Mc […]Production team
- January 2010As a new gardening year arrives along with the most snow we've seen for 30 years, I've begun to realize that the challenges of being Greenacre's new garden manager are more than simply juggling camera crews and compost.As with all gardens in this weather, Greenacre has been very quiet, in fact there are more fox tracks than human tracks in the […]Production team
- Decisions, decisionsDecisions, decisions. At the moment I'm in rather a quandary. I'm contemplating digging up half of my now nicely matured garden and turning it over to a few choice edibles. By choice I mean ones that are right there when you need them, outside the back door that you can pick and as eat fresh as you like. I'm thinking herbs, salads, dwarf beans […]Production team
- It's time to get a polytunnelAlthough the show is off-air for the winter it's business as usual here. I'm still going up to Greenacre every week marking out the new gardens and getting new plants going for next year. My autumn-sown broad beans are looking good and I potted up the spares that weren't planted out into buckets for forcing in the greenhouse which should give […]Production team
- Bloggy hellI can hardly believe that on my birthday I was harvesting Mexican ground cherries. This wonderful warm autumn brought all sorts of surprise extra harvests. Chillies got a chance to turn properly red, seed collecting has been heaven and I have had plenty of autumn lettuces, far beyond their usual quality. But I know that the minute my birthday comes, the temp […]Production team
- Design made easyMy Design Made Easy programme went out on Friday. It was a compilation of my Gardeners' World strand helping Mark and Suzanne redesign and build their already mature garden by breaking it down into manageable pieces and ending up with something that is ultimately greater than the sum of its parts.That's what I think good design is all about. It was […]Production team
- Autumn is truly hereNovember already! I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering where the summer went. I think that late burst of heat fooled me into thinking we'd rewound the clock back to July. But Halloween arrived this weekend and with it, the first autumn storm that stripped the leaves from the trees so there's no denying that autumn is truly here. In my […]Production team
- Tonight's finale and more to comeHi All On tonight's action packed finale Toby will be clearing out the summer bedding, transplanting wallflowers and potting up plants for winter. Earlier this year we visited Dean Peckett at RHS Harlow Carr who had planted a fantastic display of tulips and, despite the rainy day, the wonderful varieties cannot fail to inspire you to get planting your o […]Production team
- Winter prepHi All On tonight's show Toby will be continuing the winter garden preparations at Greenacre and making an underground subterranean vegetable store. He will also be forward planning and creating an ad hoc winter screen for the apricot he planted last week - this is to protect the flowers from frost when it starts to flower in February/March next year.Jo […]Production team
- I am on the hunt for a pumpkinMy garden is too small for pumpkins, or put another way, they've fallen off the most desirable vegetables to eat list. I went for everything but reasoning that the best spot for pumpkins would be the loss of globe artichokes, cucumbers, Mexican ground cherries, parsnips, kales, sprouting broccolis . . . I think you begin to get the picture. I do love pu […]Production team
- A Fruitful AutumnOn tonight's show Toby will be recommending his top five soft fruits to plant and, for branches laden with fruit next summer, now is the perfect time to start planting. During late autumn and on into the winter you can also buy and plant fruit trees and bushes bare root which is a cheaper option. Toby will also be planting a blackcurrant bush, making it […]Production team
- RHS Autumn Harvest ShowI have to tell you that I'm currently feeling a little nervous. In spring I made a rash decision and decided that I was going to 'grow to show' for a bit of fun and chose to enter some veggies into the RHS Autumn Harvest show in London.Looking back it was a rather crazy idea and unfortunately for me that time has come round far sooner than exp […]Production team
- A touch of the orient and autumn grassesOn tonight's show Toby is busy bringing colour to the woodland garden at Greenacre, while Alys is looking at bringing colour and spice indoors this winter, by planting up amaryllis bulbs and chop suey greens. You can find details of the techniques and the inspirational gardens visited, featured in this week's episode guide.Meanwhile fresh from Caro […]Production team
- Acers and AzaleasThere's something so lovely about the scent and feel of the soil at this time of year. It's noticeably warmer than the crisp autumn air - no wonder newly planted trees are so keen to root now. After planting 'Osakazuki' in the new woodland garden at Greenacre I feel as though I have what Oprah Winfrey might call 'some closure'. […]Production team
- AlliumsMy first week filming in the garden, and my first production blog! Claire Johnson, or Dr. Claire as she is affectionately known, is on a course this week, and so I have been parachuted in to fill her rather large wellies. I normally work on the shows, having researched RHS Chelsea, Hampton Court and Tatton for the last two years, and the VT inserts. While it […]Production team
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- No grounds for gardeningTonight my GW 1 hour special, 'No grounds for gardening', goes out.I filmed it last summer, zooming around the country as well as visiting Paris to see Patric Blanc's spectacular green walls or 'mur vegetal' as he would have them called. It loosely follows on from my special last year on the subject of garden grabbing - it's sim […]Joe Swift
- Raring to goI'm hoping this year all the basic hard work I put in last year at the allotment is going to pay off.I've been up there a couple of times in the last week or so to really get stuck in, in preparation for what is surely going to be a bumper year. Positive thinking, positive thinking! I've got a good feeling about the weather too, dunno why, I c […]Joe Swift
- Getting stuck inThe intent and desire to get up to the allotment this weekend was certainly there, but logistically it proved an impossibility. Sunday was out as I worked (giving a talk), but Saturday was packed full of cricket practice, drum lessons, 10 year old birthday parties, wool shopping (for knitting) and football games. On top of that there were the things the kids […]Joe Swift
- Waiting for springI fear that you may have come to my blog for a little cheering up. But this week it's a dark, gloomy place.I'm generally an upbeat, positive thinking chap, but this time of year really gets to me. I know it's coming. Maybe I've got that S.A.D (seasonally affective disorder)? But come on - doesn't everyone in the UK? I've worked […]Joe Swift
- I heard it on the grapevine...Well I'm away on half term with the family and by the wonderful technology we have these days I'm writing this blog sitting outside a cafe in St Emilion, south west France. Can't be bad eh!The weather is glorious - sunny, 10 degrees and quite warm out of the breeze. I have a cup of coffee, (of course it's too early for the local brew) but […]Joe Swift
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- Digging againWell fortunately the sun came out yesterday and I took the kids up to the allotment to start the year off in earnest. Cathy was tucked up in bed with the lurgy and we were all going a little stir crazy stuck in the house. When we got there, the first thing I saw was that the pigeons, not content with ruining my brussels, had now had a right go at my purple s […]Joe Swift
- In search of winter gardeningWell belated happy New Year to you all. I was in France for Christmas and the New Year and yup - it's cold over there, but not as bloomin' cold as it's been here! I was planning on going up to the allotment to start digging and getting things in order for 2009, but frozen solid ground is not the best to dig;although now it's a little mild […]Joe Swift
- A decade of championsI see that the build up for Gardener of the Decade starts on BBC2 this week. Believe it or not, I've been involved with most of the competitions over the last 10 years either as a presenter or design judge (I know, I know - I don't look old enough!). Although GOTY has changed format over the years, it has always been a tough competition looking to […]Joe Swift
- Catch the pigeonWe all went up to the allotment yesterday for the first time in a while; it's been cold and wet and I've been pretty busy. Only to find the pigeons have had my brussel sprouts. I had them netted originally but took the net off for a spot of weeding and mulching and stupidly thought they'd be OK till my next visit as there was surely other stuf […]Joe Swift
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