I enjoy the show and the gardening tips for sure. I gave it four stars rather than five because there’s really a lot of agenda-based propaganda sprinkled in🙄🤦🏻‍♀️. I guess that’s true of most shows. But overall the hosts are great and it’s put together very well.

Forget about those "tips" they promised. This is gardening at it's most basic, except for the expensive raised beds they use to grow all their vegetables. Watching someone plant plants that are already several inches high is no help. The really important information, like using grow covers, what kind of fertilizer to use, how to protect them from insects, what the soil ph should be, how much water and sun it will need, IS NOT INCLUDED. What you get is some people who are really long winded digging holes and planting seeds or well established, already hardened off plants. They mention a few varieties, but no reasons as to why they selected that variety. Anyone who would find these videos informative has probably never had a garden before. I'm so disappointed. Had really high hopes for this series due to the description, but fails to deliver.

Interesting and mostly fun. Makes gardening very accessible. 5 for content but 3 for the dynamic between the presenters, which was at times quite irksome, and so patriarchal. HE, a wise, knowledgeable gardener, and SHE the eager pupil, getting scolded for her naïveté and enthusiasm, etc. Sometimes challenging him, but still, seemed like 1950s “father knows best” interaction sometimes.

PROS: I love the seed to harvest to dinner plate concept, the community involvement segments, the variety of recipes, the raised bed method and container pot method, videography, use of experts (i.e. the orchardist),
CONS: Content needs more scientific info like ph of soil, why they chose the variety of vegetable they did, which pests are most common and how to rid of them, how often & what method they water the vegetable, etc.
Perhaps a little less “I know more than you” banter between the hosts would allow time for more education. Maybe delete the hosts eating the chef’s creations. I get it, it tastes delicious, of course it does, move on. Let’s pack the content with more Take Aways.

I have been watching these as I am waking up and getting ready for work. The guy is very calm and infomative, he really makes the show. The woman is pretty horrible and doesn't know anything/rude. I am really enjoying how I am learning while having a peaceful voice explain simple gardening. Even if you have your plants already figured out, this would still be a good show to put on and relax to. I plan on watching this show a few times.....

Really great guide to growing that simplifies it rather than bogging it down with too many "tricks of the trade" -- they address when to sow or plant, what to expect along the way, and how to use the veggies. In between there are mini shows where the hosts show what people are doing to make a cultural change to cleaner greener food -- or mini lessons on planting an small orchard :)
I will likely rewatch.

After a 20yr hiatus from gardening, my husband and I have built a huge, raised bed garden. When we got everything in the ground, I found this wonderful show and binge watched it over 2 weeks. The hosts are adorable, and they give lots of tips about how to prepare soil, companion plants, etc. They also have segments in each show talking with businesses that are making a difference with sustainability, composting, buying local, and more. I hope they have many more seasons of this delightful show. I've ordered Michael's book and signed up on the GIY website for updates (where you can also buy some of the seeds that they plant on the show). If you are an organic gardener, I highly recommend this show.

Its clearly a show designed to bring new people to growing vegetables, and there are some bits of information tucked in there, but the one announcer is so concerned with being perky and smiling that she fails to actually plant wilting seedlings, clearly doesn't really like getting her hands dirty and doesn't know a thing. In episode three, she planted a completely rootbound pot of chives without doing anything to release the roots. I wanted to pull it up and rescue it. However her colleague is knowleadgable, and I enjoyed the visits to school and community gardens. I want to like the premise, but feel that this show will lead new gardeners astray with its oversimplifications and expensive set ups.