... Long ago when we bought our bungalow I bought lots of different ones and settled on Amateur Gardening as one that I could browse through and keep for future reference. I did have a years worth for many years that I looked back on.
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...different ones and settled on Amateur Gardening as one that I could browse through and keep for future reference. I did have a years worth for many years that I looked back on.
So, if I was going to write a magazine review then this was going to be it and here it is.
I got mine in our local Sainsburys, Price £1.50, (it says only so I don't know if this is a special offer or if they think £1.50 is an only amount)
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34 National Amateur Gardening Show
Couple of pages about being a gardening star for a day.
36 Postbag and Crossword
The postbag is worth a read, full of letters and tips from us, the people who read this magazine and quite interesting. I can never do the crossword though without a load of research into the Latin names of common plants
39 Reader offer
Buy two pine trees and save a fiver. more
It is a while since I bought a gardening magazine, they get a bit repetitive year in year out. Long ago when we bought our bungalow I bought lots of different ones and settled on Amateur Gardening as one that I could browse through and keep for future reference. I did have a years worth for many years that I looked back on.
So, if I was going to write a magazine review then this was going to be it and here it is.
I got mine in our local Sainsburys, Price £1.50, (it says only so I don't know if this is a special offer or if they think £1.50 is an only amount)
My first thought was that it is a bit thin! But then it is a weekly and of course only.....
On the front are a packet of free sweet pea seeds called astronaut mixed. The names they think up.....
So over our take away meal, we really should stop indulging in these, but it is nice not to have to cook sometimes, I took a look at the mag. For some reason I don't know why but I do like to read while I am eating.
On the front, a nice colour picture of a Day Lily, and promise of a feature of these inside. I had day lilies in my garden for years so am slightly interested here. Above: A year at Kew, perview of the new tv series narrated by Alan Titchmarsh, and a nice photo of his face.
Inside the front page is a large advert for the book What can Vinegar be used for? I have seen this book advertised loads of times but am not tempted at this time.
List of the people involved in producing this mag and the website for more details.
www.amateurgardening.com
Save Cash: I like the look of this. Subscribe today and pay only £1.02 per issue. I think this means pay for a years' worth and get a saving. A phone number to place your order. 0845 676 7778
The Editors Letter, and... THIS WEEK
So, what is inside?
Page 4 In a daze over daylilies A lovely double spread with colour photos of some day lilies. Now it tells you here that they are disease free and easy to grow, but it doesn't tell you that snails absolutely love these things. I don't think they eat them but when I parted mine to see if there were any flower buds coming there was a huge colony of snails living amongst the strap like leaves. One bonus of these though is you can eat the flowers if you want, although after all those snails living amongst them I didn't fancy them myself.
7 Charlie Dimmock She seems to have planted things in an old tree stumpo and called it a frumpery. Oh well, I burn mine so not for me, but her pic is attractive anyway.
8 Great ideas. Help our hedgehogs who apparently eat all our slugs and snails. Well not in my garden they don't, I have way too many for the local hedgehogs to cope with. Anyway, it tells you here how to build a home for the hedgehog to live in when winter comes and it needs to hibernate.
9 Alan Titchmarsh Mission impossible. Plants for dry dusty wall bases. Good ideas and the plants look good. I think they should have given him more space.
10 Bob Flowerdew What's Bob up to this week? I once watched him on a tv programme building a compost heap and decided that he had more time, more compost, and more hair than me. He is an organic gardener by the way. This week he is telling us how to grow perfect sweetcorn. Fine but will have to save this copy until Easter to get started.
12 Anne Swithinbank She is having problems with clubroot in her cabbage patch, shame, as now she can't grow any brassicas for the next three years there, I expect she has a huge garden though and can grow them somewhere else. Clubroot is an awful thing to get and hard to eradicate.
15 Chris Beardshaw This guy goes underwater to study the anemones growing beneath the sea in Scotland.
16 Great Ideas How to freeze all the veg you can't eat fresh. Good tips here and the right time of year.
18 Peter seabrook Has caterpillars in his caulis, wow, shame. There is a bit at the bottom of this page telling you how to grow your sweet peas that you found on the front of the packet. First wait until November. I wonder if I will remember where I put the things by then?
20 What's in Store This is all about paito heaters, well, we need one of these don't we? The evenings are getting chilly now.
23 Give it a go An advert for a broom with a rotating head. Apart from the fact that in the cons, it says the head falls off when you brush the gutters or swivel it upsidedown, it looks useful, but for almost £20? I personally think this is a bit gimmicky, I will carry on sending my husband up ladders to brush out the awkward places.
26 Ornamental grasses There's a couple of pages about salvias and then a nice feature on ornamental grasses next. Lovely photos, lots of good ideas here.
30 News News? Why is Alan no longer the golden Boy? Don't know, I was eating and watching tv while I read this bit and not much of it went in. There are other bits of gardening news. I expect I will go back to this another time.
33 Right on Kew A preview of an upcoming tv programme about Kew Gardens, worth a look.
34 National Amateur Gardening Show Couple of pages about being a gardening star for a day.
36 Postbag and Crossword The postbag is worth a read, full of letters and tips from us, the people who read this magazine and quite interesting. I can never do the crossword though without a load of research into the Latin names of common plants
39 Reader offer Buy two pine trees and save a fiver.
40 Readers Garden The readers garden is always interesting because we gardeners are nosy peoply and are always interested in what others have done. This weeks is a lovely garden and good feature.
44 Ask the experts The experts answer questions about passion flowers, mind you I am not sure I agree with the answer here because I really abuse mine and it grows for miles (seemingly) and is every year covered in flowers and fruit. And why someones' figs fall off before they ripen. Lots of other questions answered here also.
51 Monty Don And on the back page Monty Don's favourite weed and what is in next weeks issue.
This is a good magazine, not very thick but quite a lot of pages of info on gardening and it's various quirks. I would have liked so see free seeds that I could have gone down to the greenhouse and sown but I guess there aren't that many of those in August. Interspersed with good interesting features there are adverts for anything to do with gardens and on one page one for hearing aids. The rest of the magazine is totally about gardens and growing things or putting heaters in your garden. I really quite enjoyed reading this mag and would recommend it to people who are interested in gardening, or like myself when we first moved here, for people who have a garden but not much experience. Not of huge interest to an experienced gardener, but then maybe that is why the title is amateur.
Advantages: good information and free seeds. Disadvantages: even £1.00 per week could be expensive if bought every week.
Amateur Gardening is a weekly gardening magazine out every Tuesday. Published by IPC Media Ltd.
It has free seeds, news, a garden problem solver, what's new, Anne Swithinbank's garden diary, this week in your garden, Bob Flowerdew, Charlie Dimmock's 60-minute garden, Peter Seabrook, post bag/crossword, the reader's garden and a reader offer.
The magazine costs £1.20 per week and can be bought every Tuesday. This means that if you buy four magazines ... ...monthly magazine costing around £2.50 would make more sense financially. It's for this reason, I mainly buy the magazines occasionally, if their is a good article I want to read or they are giving away a packet of seeds I might like to try.
The free seeds are usually from suppliers such as Thompson & Morgan who want to promote new varieties. It is a weekly magazine so compared with a monthly one, it is very thin. However, it is low on advertising ...
johned 05.04.2001
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Lets have a look at the Amateur gardening magazine I have.
I do not buy this religiously every week. Occasionally if I feel like reading a gardening magazine I might just buy this one. This magazine costs £1.50 a week. Which I think a good price. It often has a freebie with it a packet of seeds or something similar
This magazine has about 60 pages in it. So what’s on these pages? I have a may copy here in front of me? There ... ...There are lots of colour pictures of flowers and gardens.
Articles written by TV garden stars Peter Seabrook, Anne Swithin bank, Charlie Dimmock (wish she would wear a dry t shirt she will get an awful cold wearing wet t shirts all the time :-), Bob Flowerdew, (he grows things in a way I like) Chris Beardshaw (now there’s a nice young man). Monty Don, who in the September issue ponders about digging and the modern trend for non dig gardens.
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mumsymary 05.01.2005
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Advantages: Plenty of information, free seeds Disadvantages: A few adverts but not many
...am a regular reader of Amateur Gardening, in fact I hardly ever miss an issue. It is published every tuesday and costs £1.10 and more often than not comes with one or two FREE packet of seeds which always cost more than the magazine itself.
It is packed full of useful hints and tips, full length articles by famous gardeners such as Charlie Dimmock, Bob Flowerdew and Peter Seabrook and many others.
There is a postbag where you can send in letters ... ...fax to get answers to various problems.
Regular articles include Whats new, Pestwatch, This week in your garden, Readers garden and Anne Swithinbank's garden diary. It is full of information pertaining to anything you can grow from flowers, vegetables, fruits, unusual plants and interesting new varieties.
The picture content is very professional with beautiful full size photographs of plants and gardens, there is also occasionally pictures of bugs ...
Jules999 15.08.2000
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Advantages: Cheap and cheerful, lots of info, lively writing style Disadvantages: None really
...a complete novice, but thanks Amateur Gardening I now have hundreds of seedlings and plants in various states of development both in the conservatory and out in the garden. I have never grown a thing before in my life! I now feel ready to take the plunge into vegetable growing too now :-) Although the title is Amateur Gardening, there is enough information and interesting features for those who are not complete beginners. Full to bursting with techniques, ...
gailmill 10.05.2001
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Advantages: Experts know their stuff Disadvantages: None.
Amateur Gardening is probably the only gardening magazine you will need. A strong claim? Well, it is a strong magazine, and certainly a class leader.
The magazine has a whole host of expert writers who appear every week in the magazine. Bob Flowerdew, Alan Titchmarsh, Peter Seabrook, Charlie Dimmock, Chris Beardsmore, Monty Don, etc. But not only does the magazine feature “media star celebrity” garden experts, it also has a whole host of staff writers ... ...You’ll find the answer in Amateur Gardening. As well as answering problems the magazine carries features on a wide variety of topics form planting trees to hard landscaping and how to prune fruit trees for their maximum cropping. And how and when to dead head flowering plants, to make them grow more blooms.
I am not an expert gardener, that is the role of my wife, and it is she who subscribes to Amateur Gardening. “I like the way that they don’t ...
Martinscholes 23.08.2004 (24.08.2004)
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