I was at Pershore college of horticulture back in 1998, studying landscape technology was a little dull but come Easter my tutor David Edmonds ask " you're from Leominster ? " yep I said," there's a job going just for the easter holidays". Anyway I made the call and I spoke to a lovely lady named Sarah, Sarah asked me to come over for an interview the following Saturday. Brilliant!! I was skint!! Saturday arrived and left my mum and dads ( they live 6 miles from the interview location ) to see what this mysterious gardening job was all about?? Turned up at a beautiful somewhat rustic old Herefordshire courthouse, knocked on the door and waited nervously but with excitement. The big oak front door opened and it was Monty!! ( new trousers please) now I was shitting myself. I was welcomed in by Monty and Sarah they put me at ease straight away and got the kettle on. We all sat at the kitchen table, kids running in and out to see this strange new person in there house. There was no need for me to worry, Sarah was so lovely and kind and Monty was Monty. Well the interview went very well and they offered me the job to start straight away!! They said they were filming a new series and they wanted someone with some gardening/plant knowledge to set the areas for film among other jobs for filming, silly stuff like holding a light reflector and making tea for the crew. The series was fork to fork, it was a great time for three weeks! I was so lucky. It came to an end sadly so I was back to college but that summer at the Chelsea flower show ( we built a garden for college that year) Monty was presenting for channel 4 so we crossed paths, my peers could not believe I was talking to him like a friend and taking the piss out of each other. Monty invited me lunch that afternoon so I was there like a shot. We sat down, food came and we chatted for a while, he then asked if I enjoyed working with him, Sarah and family over Easter, " I bloody loved it " I replied. " well in that case we would love you to come back after you've finished college and work with us fulltime!!! I was so happy not to mention flattered!! Well I was there four years in total and only left due to my partner and i the time moved away. I only have good memories of my time and I can tell you that the whole family were great to me. Just really nice down to earth people. Great days!! Many thanks to you all 👊👊👊👊👊
Wow! That’s a brilliant story! Thanks for sharing. What a memory to keep....... I love his manner and passion on tv. I have an allotment and it keeps me sane.
@@alisonforrester4612 thank you for the reply, yes I would agree it keeps you sane and the benefits for yourself and the environment are endless. Keep up the good work Alison.
@@christinepops5100 yes I was very lucky and only have great memories apart from the morning he told me off for not cleaning his spade from the day before, whoops 🤣🤣
I watch this every year in winter. I love seeing Monty’s young family. And it reminds me of the thrill I will be enjoying in a few months when it warms up and I am in my organic garden. :)
Everything this guy is in is wonderful to watch. He has such a personable, soft quality to his presenting. I particularly enjoyed his French and Italian Gardens series.
I agree, though didn't like French gardens, not because of him, bit the content.... Ridiculously boring. Italian gardens much more to look at and actually wanted to visit them... Much prefer him in this context though, advice, experience knowledge shared etc.
The genesis of Longmeadow. This is a terrific series that now seems a little nostalgic as Monty is a national treasure. The fork to fork book is also excellent.
Loved watching this watch gardeners world always wondered what the inside of house was like and your family loved seeing the garden and growing and cooking the vegetables and the dog's that you had then
Wow I didn't even realise this series existed! Thanks for putting it up! I just love the way Monty does things - if there are any other series out the please put them up too!
Passionate people who learned from doing are always ahead of their time. Hes gardening organically, using liquid seaweed, eating locally, etc. almost by instinct. All things we now know are invaluable. Love Monty.
What a lovely ,I loved to grow organic fresh fruits and vegetables too. I wish to have a huge farm .thank you so much for sharing your beautiful garden , I enjoyed watching 🌸🌸🦋🦋💕💕💕💫🦋🦋🦋
I love his insistency and urgency as Monty undertakes anything, there is always an underlaying passion in his description, I wonder if this man is ever upset?
Is it just me or are these literally the yummiest recipes you have ever seen in your life. Those crackling sounds and the way the camera shoots the herbs and that old stove. I am so hungry now give me butter sauce
No bare soil. The soil surface should be covered with either living plants or mulch at all times. Monty Don mulches with compost he has laborously turned over and over. (See previous comment.) Instead, wood chips - which allow air to reach the soil surface - or a layer of coarser stems from grasses, grains (aka 'straw', still grasses), or other coarse vegetation cut and put on the soil surface in a layer thick enough to suppress weeds, reduce moisture lost from the soil surface, and keep the soil temperature more even. This benefits the life that makes up the Soil Food Web - which makes nutrients available to plants. Living mulches are a great alternative. On farms these are called 'cover crops'. They are not just for the fallow times between cash crops, but ideally are also used with crops that would otherwise have bare ground between plants or rows. In a garden, low growing plants that do not compete with the vegetables are ideal - white clover, purslane, and wood sorrel come to mind. These three are all edible, too! Any living root in the soil is better than none - so long as the plant is not out-competing the plants you are trying to grow. This is really a variation on the concept of 'companion planting'. If growing in raised beds in compost or compost-enriched soil, the garden plants can be planted more closely together, and weeds are less of a problem, but we should rethink the whole idea of 'weeds' and recognize that this is an artificial category that we create. Part of the fun of gardening is experimenting!! It is well worth trying different approaches to working with nature, instead of making gardening more of a chore, or being tempted to use toxic man-made chemicals.
HELLO, I ALICIA FROM BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA, I LIKE VIDEOS WITH TRASLETE, WITH SUBTITLES. MY ENGLISH IS POOR AND I LIKE TO LERN MORE OF YOUR WORK IN THE GARDENS.
I like these shows that are 100% Monty Don. Gardener's World is OK, but I think of it as just Monty Don, interrupted by other people I don't care about much. Give them their own shows and then let Monty Don have his own show.
Exactly what I've been looking for ! Thanks to whoever put it here. Happy girl ! Curious why from 1:36:38 to 2:01:01 there's no picture ? Still gratefully appreciate finding it.
I really like Monty Don, at least the older, more current version of him. Watching these idyllic buttery, soft-filtered episodes leaves me feeling like I used to when I watched Martha Stewart...inadequate. I don't like this portrayal of the "simple" life. Can you imagine processing that much basil into pesto with elementary-aged children? Ten minutes of that and I'd be done. Much less the time and energy to plant and maintain all of that. And everything is perfectly ordered and neat. I'm glad Monty is now more authentic with crazy hair and worn out clothes.
oh boy, what happened to the end? I'm surprised he buys seed, when he could harvest it from the crops, I do that all the time, havent purchased seed in forever
Well for instance if you grow multiple kinds of curcubitae-family veg like winter squash, summer squash, cucumbers, melons or pumpkins you can't really count on the seeds you harvest being what you expect them to be because they are very promiscuous and will cross in all sorts of ways. So with those it's just easier to buy the seeds. And sometimes it's fun to try new varieties of different veg and then you have to buy them at least the first time. 👍
Surely the voice-over reader around 1'10" isn't Monty Don, even though the narration clearly is supposed to be him talking. The voice is quite different.
Monty Don is always enjoyable to watch, and the camera work in these shows is excellent. One wonders about the human inclination toward segregation. As Mark Shepard of New Forest Farm in Wisc, USA and author of 'Restoration Agriculture, says, 'All the problems come from our concept of an orchard'. In he natural world, trees don't grow in isolation. One does not find groves of fruit trees growing with no other plants around, or even just grass. Mark Talks about his approach: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kb_t-sVVzF0.html In nature, there are meadows in woodland, and trees dotting many grasslands. In intact ecosystems, there are animals everywhere - including large herbivores. Isn't organic gardening and farming about mimicing nature?
Le Thanh Thuy I love AGAs. They’re on continuously. If you want cookies in the middle of the night you just throw them in. Wood, gas, coal, what ever you want.
at 44.10, he said compost must be loose and i use this, filled with "...." thats really good for the cuttings . "..." sounded like sharp sand to me and doesnt make any sense. What exactly is that black thing he added to the compost?
3:49 'Add five ounces of brown sugar.' Does that sugar look decidedly white on anyone else's screen? (Lots of wasted apple here from using a knife to peel. Use a proper vegetable peeler and you'll lose the peel, not the apple.)
About the 7-minute mark, Monty calmly mentions using glyphosate (aka "Roundup") to kill grass at the base of his fruit trees and says it is harmless. I understand this was filmed years ago (how many?), before the devastating effects of glyphosate were known, obviously, but it is shocking, especially coming after the cooking segment, where she mentions the apples she is using are "organic." Perhaps why this video 'disappeared' for a while?
The Fork to Fork book came out in 1999 - had to look that up on Wikipedia - so I assume this video is roughly contemporaneous. I live in the UK and Monty looks considerably older on Gardeners World these days (don't we all?). He was the head of the Soil Association in Britain from 2008 to 2016. If you're not familiar with them, they certify organic food here, so I suspect Monty has more up-to-date views on glyphosate these days. The video probably disappeared because of copyright issues.
