Please close the gate......

NOW that the growing season is upon us I wonder if it would be a good time to mention something that has been bothering me for ages.

Garden ‘make over’ programmes, as seen on television, bear very little relation to gardening as I know it.

What is it that I feel most ‘ordinary gardeners’ like myself want from the experts on the little box? For starters, it would be nice now and again to be told how to safely go about installing a garden power point, how to plumb a frost-proof outdoor tap, or be enlightened on which types of modern fencing panels are now available to the gardener.