Recently I thought what happened to the old gardening shows such as Crockett's Victory Garden that used to be on WGBH out of Boston. I would watch it every Saturday years ago. Tried as I might, I could not find DVDs that I could purchase. The current Victory Garden is ok, but it certainly is not what the original started out as.
Then I recalled this fabulous show called the 3000 Mile Gardener that WGBH showed. It took the book and created a series out of it. I thought wouldn't it be great if they would show re-runs of this. Then my mind wondered to what Leslie Land the author was doing today. I found her fascinating blog that I thought you might be interested in.
http://leslieland.com/2012/03/building-an-outdoor-bread-oven-part-two/
Finally the only show that I could find that was an old world garden type show was from BBC2 that first aired in the late 1980s :Victorian Kitchen Garden. You can watch it on you tube at this link.
http://beekman1802.com/garden/victorian-kitchen-garden.html
What gardening shows do you like?
Funny a couple of weeks ago I was searching for The Victory Garden videos too. I used to watch it when I was a kid. It's such a waste of good information that they don't have them available somewhere! I like to listen to You Bet Your Garden on the radio and sometimes listen to shows that I missed on WHYY's web site.
ReplyDeleteSuburban Gardeness ---I listen to You Bet Your Garden and the Garden Guys and I must have about 9 different gardening radio progroms I download on my mp3 and listen to in the car. But I would love to have the Old Victory Garden back on as reruns.
ReplyDeleteI want This Old HOouse and The (original) Victory Garden on DVD so badly!!
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