Why is Gardener's World rubbish now?!!

Last night Monty showed how to lick the end of a pencil to set a tomato seed in the correct place. Handy tip and in no way advanced!
I thought that was a good tip
😀

I use the end of my finger!

I love gardening but rarely watch any programmes now, love food but never watch a food programme anymore unless it’s Jamie as his food is easy and tasty. As for Masterchef is life that long to faff like that.

Used to be a real fan but not anymore. As others have said, I want practical advice and tips and don't want to see various presenters swanning around other people's gardens. Bring back the old format that I found informative, helpful and entertaining.

As a previous poster said you can see instantly online any job you want to do now and I do.Should I prune my dogwood now?How to make compost ?Will this plant like my sunny border ?I just instantly Google
I agree Beechgrove is more instructive but I still love GW for a gentle watch and inspiration. I never would have visited some glorious gardens had I not seen them on GW.I can only see how to layer bulbs and pruck out seedlings so many times.Plus I love seeing some of the urban and unusual gardens Agree that much as I like Monty it's nice to see Adams comparatively modest garden.

I always look forward to GW. Seeing the lovely flowers and gardens really cheers me up. I do enjoy seeing other people's gardens as they give me ideas. For me it's one of my favourite programmes. I do think though, as others have said, that Beechgrove is more informative.

I love it, and think Monty is great.
I really like seeing other people’s gardens and how they go about creating something wonderful ( in often not ideal circumstances ) this week. we saw a council flat balcony transformed, and a terraced house with a completely concrete back yard brought to life with pots - it was amazing!
Best part of the show for me.
As someone up thread said, you can google anything these days so don’t really need someone on the telly teaching you.

I enjoyed it this week after not watching for ages.
It makes me think of what I could be doing to make my garden beautiful (but don't!).

Oh yes, that balcony was amazing, Kandinsky.

I’m team Monty . I don’t want tips on planting carrots- I prefer seeing other gardens in different locations and getting inspiration.

Love Beechgrive much more practical

Nobody beats Geoff Hamilton, wonderful

foxie48

I used to but with the wetter summers we've had recently it hasn't disappeared just got more invasive but I fear I'm losing the battle. We're on heavy clay so the soil is difficult to say the least.

Foxie48, you know, with some, moss is very trendy t the moment. People buy it!
I wondered if an advert in an internet page localish to you might even get someone who would come, get it up and take it away?
Just a thought.

I agree with others. Fed up with Monty Don & his (in my view) unattractive garden (HUGE hedges) We need more gardening advise for us with reasonable sized gardens! Beechgrove is much better.

Kandinsky

I love it, and think Monty is great.
I really like seeing other people’s gardens and how they go about creating something wonderful ( in often not ideal circumstances ) this week. we saw a council flat balcony transformed, and a terraced house with a completely concrete back yard brought to life with pots - it was amazing!
Best part of the show for me.
As someone up thread said, you can google anything these days so don’t really need someone on the telly teaching you.

I love it too, and think Monty is just the right presenter, he shows us how we can garden even if we've got disabilities I would never see those gardens that are run for people with health issues and they are very special.

He shows us how to manage our plots without chemicals, and used recycle or use foraged materials. I love how he features people who glean stuff from car boots etc. their gardens are always quirky and fun.

He's always been better than Titchmarsh, who is just bog standard average and not as forward thinking as to look for organic things or recycled.

Monty is great, I'll be sorry when he goes, Frances would be a good alternative

It's because the presenter only does what I call 'grandpa gardening' now and if you look at excerpts from his stand-up about Filming Gardeners World, he openly admits he doesn't give a what we do at the weekends (his words) & he hates that part of the programme and is equally vocal about pruning our roses. I'll only watch it again when Adam takes over ...

I do enjoy Gardeners World but it's bound to become a bit repetitive as the same tasks recur every year, there's only so many sessions on rose pruning, perennial splitting or bulb planting that most of us need to watch. Also I no longer have a "real" garden, just a balcony, so much of the advice is not so useful to me. I like to see new plants though.
I still love Monty, Adam, Carole and Frances - in fact most of the people who present, though I never took to Toby. It's so easy to stream the programme and simply skip through the bits I don't want to watch.

Now???

I love it. It’s my nice little escape from it all time. Love seeing the gardens and listening to the presenters gentle and polite commentary.

Altho I watch GW most weeks, I find there is very little in it that relates to my small garden. I would appreciate more practical tips for the "ordinary" garden. A weekly visit to an "ordinary" garden, pointing out whats in the wrong position, what needs pruning and when, and generally give advice on how to improve it and look after the plants would be very interesting.

I agree with everyone ….Im an expat living in Toronto and although the seasons don’t really coincide I really enjoyed watching the recorded edition of Gardeners World to glean tips on upcoming gardening tasks….but I’ve stopped watching it because it’s definitely lost its appeal for many of the reasons stated by Gransnet followers above. Wish we could get Beechgrove on Britbox…..from the comments it’s seems to be of more interest now than Gardeners World because it contains. Sensible and relatable gardening advice.

I keep thinking Monty isn't that good a gardener. He's always enthusiastic about some big new planting scheme but then a year later decides it was all rubbish and he starts again. This time it's a total remake of his jewel garden. Talk about wasteful.
And this time he planted a rambling rose to climb up a support. In no time at all it'll be WAY too big (clue in the name) and he'll probably take it out. Plus when he was planting it he didn't add microrhizome stuff which David Austin roses always say should be done with bare root roses. I wish Sarah Raven would do a TV series. Her courses and her gardens are glorious.

I doubt Sarah Raven does much hands-on gardening. Her plants are grown by a nursery and are of variable quality.

Give me Beechgrove any time. It is much more in tune with our gardening situation and our weather in Yorkshire plus it is down to earth !

Churchview - agree wth your view - i prefer being shown inspirational gardens rather than the more mundane tasks of 'how to'