AMATEUR stitchers have The Great British Sewing Bee, cooks have MasterChef, and people who can make really nice bread have The Great British Bake Off, so it was probably about time that the nation’s gardeners got a chance to show off their skills.
Fern Britton is the presenter of this six-part series that sees nine pairs of “allotmenteers”
(we’re not sure if that’s a real word, but then some of us had never heard of a sewing bee before, either) taking on challenges designed to test their ability to cultivate fruits, vegetables and flowers.
They’ll need to meet the high standards of award-winning gardener Jim Buttress and international floral designer Jonathan Moseley. In this opening episode, the contestants face their first challenge – growing and presenting three matching radishes and seven perfect spikes of sweet peas, making up a floral arrangement and turning ingredients from their allotment into jam.
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