Where’s the G?
Has anyone noticed there is NO G IN HGTV? Huh? Have you noticed? If you are like me, you’ve stopped watching altogether. My pal at Texas Cottage Gardener counted 284 programs on HGTV with eleven, a paltry substandard ELEVEN, on gardening with half of those shows on instant landscape makeovers…. which should never, ever, ever be confused with real gardening.
Do they not realize there was a 40 % uptick in demand for vegetable plants last year for HOME GARDENS? Do they not understand people are HUNGRY for garden information “how to” shows? Overall increase in demand for plants was up 56%? Sixty percent of the customers of independent garden centers are growing fresh vegetables and the numbers are climbing for perennial plants as well? Have they heard of “Stay-cations,” where folks are hanging in their ‘hood, dolling up the joint, planting some more flowers, sprucing up the homestead with a new spruce and staying put?
So I ask you, If not, why not? Put the G back in House and Garden TeleVision. Please.
Hallelujah! I haven’t watched HGTV in years. even their decorating shows aren’t very good anymore.
I usre noticed, and I’ve posted about it on my blog, too!
I used to be a regular watcher of HGTV. I can’t remember the last time I turned to that channel. Of course if I could remember to watch “A Gardener’s Diary” at 7 a.m. on Thursdays, I’d turn it on once a week.
I agree. I was watching it for quite a while still though watching Designed to Sell for more ideas on how to get my house sold, but I don’t even watch that anymore. Why bother?
I just read Mr. McGregor’s Daughter’s and Carol at MayDreams’ posts on this topic (and linking back to you), and I am ready to join the picket line! I used to be regular viewer of HGTV, but the last time I turned it on, a developer on one of those “Flip this House”-type shows was cutting down a big, beautiful tree because potential buyers couldn’t “see” the house!
As far as I’m concerned, the name HGTV is false advertising.
Used to lurve HGTV…and then they got slack. I ranted on my blog about the ‘no G’ way back in Novemer 2006, so it’s been years since they’ve gotten off track and never got back on. They’ve lost total track of their target audience. A shame, really.