Sad to read that the Arch-Gardener, Peter Seabrook died recently!
He was an inspiration to anyone who wanted to get into this great hobby/pastime/passion, and his enthusiasm brought so much happiness to new – and older gardeners. His book ‘The Complete Vegetable gardener’ is the best one I have, and is well-thumbed as well as fithy dirty, mainly from darting in from the garden to see how far apart spuds needed to be, or the height of a pea net!
He was for some time on the BBC, and I seem to recall that his forthright opinions were just too good for the budding snowflakes and wokers who are now in full swing in W1AA. The current gardening programmes they churn out are just dire and boring these days – they just wallow around on the diversity ticket to the detriment of keen agricultural discussion!
RIP – great man!
4 comments:
RIP.
It's no good me buying a book like 'The Complete Vegetable gardener’. 'The Incomplete Vegetable gardener’ would be more my line. My vegetables usually have bits missing where something has eaten them. Apart from runner beans, I can grow those.
Indeed, James!
It was The Senora's dad who started me off, simply by bringing us a couple of pots of runner bean seedlings in 1973!
Never really looked back, but we gave up our allotment a few years ago, as all we did was grow the stuff and give it away!
Got plans for The Turrets this year though...
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