Vic Gardener

No good at cooking. Rubbish at gardening (despite my name). Love the old BBC 'Victorian Kitchen Garden' programmes.

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@Missvolare Of course you need four. How else can you make Captain Pugwash blink, open his mouth, wave his cutlass and trip up Cutthroat Jake at the same time?

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

As no-one else seems to have* then I will. Happy Birthday @jayrayner1 !

*Unless I really haven't been paying attention (likely).

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

Happy Miss Willmott day, @Missvolare

Photo: Wimpole Hall Walled Garden, July 7th, 2023.

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@DrAnnieGray @WomensInstitute I'm seeing Skegness in a new light . . .

Happy Birthday, by the way!

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@Missvolare @GuyBarter Japanese Knotweed . . .

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@DrAnnieGray Months. I haven't written, I haven't rung . . . . Today I saw this and thought of you . . .

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@Missvolare Well done! (also saves me asking).

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@jayrayner1 Many Happy Returns!

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@Missvolare @HobbyistPlant Or dusting around them . . .

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@FractalGeekUK @Missvolare Meccano Spares agrees. Slotted Cheesehead Bolt.

https://t.co/HGovYvUGWh

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@Missvolare Late to the party as always, but to get (c) and lose ©, after typing the close-bracket, press Ctrl/Z which deletes the last action - the unwanted reformatting.

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@darbydorras @thisislisten @Podnews @joshadley @ambrhlly Many congrats. May you stay beyond excited for ever!

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@cannonhillpark @TheMontyDon @DerbyPark @BirkenheadPark1 @BhamCityCouncil @CoftonNursery @JNPHayden @NTPamelaSmith @friends_perry @FriendsDerby @Feltip1982 Always good to see my home town Brum, on TV. I remember seeing this type of mowing for the first time in one of the old 'The Victorian Kitchen Garden' series. Yesterday, 31st Oct, marked 30 years since the first broadcast of the 3rd and last VKG series, 'Victorian Flower Garden'.

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@sarahlwain That's my new 'expletive' when in company. Thanks.

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@BBCRadio4 And it's still there, it's masts bearing the obligatory red lights at night. East of the M5, just north of J5.

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@richardvanemden Ah, so long as you know. I keep in touch with Ruth's great niece, Sara, as it happens.

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@PaulTwyman2 I'm sure it will, Paul. It's a great repository of walled garden knowledge, though I tend to use it for reference, rather than just 'a good read' (which it is, too). Recently acquired this little one of hers, which also seems packed with a wealth of fascinating WG facts.

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@westberksbrew In the colder weather, I like an 'Auntie Ruth's Winter Warmer'. Though maybe this year it should be called 'Cousin Gertie's Winter Warmer', if Ed agrees?

[Vic Gardener @vickgard1987]

@WestBerksBrew - Any chance you'll be making a batch of 'Auntie Ruth's Winter Warmer' in the coming months?