Victorian Kitchen Garden -December

If you lot behave yourselves & don't trawl through the entire series in one go :D i'll post the relevant video every month for the next year.:thumb:

http://www.youtube.com/v/zAEQNevd5tM?fs=1&hl=en_GB

I'm afraid you only get the first 10 mins though, probably some copyright thing.

 

Oh Marley, I didn't mean to make you cry :cry:

Thats why i'm involved with historic buildings, any changes must be reversable. If in the future people want to return it to the original use then it must be possible for them, buildings and gardens.

Yes, Harry has gone. (I don't think my obituary will read as good as his, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/harry-dodson-507520.html)

But his learning and legacy lives on through all the lives he has touched.

You and I both loved the series, have the books and the knowledge.

It's still spreading, Chopper now has my books & by posting the videos here, a whole new generation will benefit from Harrys' knowledge.

Lets keep his memory alive in our gardens.

 

Thoroughly enjoyed the series - which I watched about 6 months ago on Blighty I think.

I expect it will come round again?

 

Sorry, you looked like you were crying from your post. I wasn't crying a few minutes ago at the end of Apollo 13, I just had something in my eye.:wink:

Fairford ? Is that near Lechlade ? Worked on inglesham church near there.

I worked in 24 acres of the College of Law grounds in Guildford when I was younger. The head gardener didn't have a clue. Think I knew more than him, even at my tender age. Had to bite my lip when he tried to pronounce the latin names.:hehe: But it was a great time of my life. I learned that you could fill the petrol tanks with a lit cigarette in your mouth without exploding and that if you are surrounded by complete garden morons, then you can hoe round opium poppies in the rose garden & the rest of the "gardeners" couldn't tell them from the roses.

 

I could tell :cutflwrs:

 

Interesting, Ziggy. I'll try to watch more of them.

 

Not yet Redstar, you'll spoil it for next month. Gardeners need something to keep their attention in January :D

 

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I never met Harry and I could kick myself for not making the effort to visit him while I had the chance. I'm so grateful that the Victorian Garden series exists. These amazing feats of Victorian gardeners are there for us to actually see.

The Kitchen series with Harry and Ruth the cook sniping at each other is hilarious.

 

That is a shame Atticus.
I'll flag up the kitchen series around mid month, when the snow comes back and we are really going stir crazy.

 

Harry Dodson Chilton Foliat

I took some photographs of the Back Sheds when i had a brief look around the walled Gardeon about 20 months ago

 

War Time Kitchen and Garden

I have got all 8 programmes