The Gardeners' World Blog

Firstly, I have a confession and apology. Through my total failure to properly communicate with my team, we once again failed to wear seatbelts while doing an interview in the back of a car. I had uttered the immortal words: "This will never happen again," after the first time we did this, but I'm afraid it did. I am now as sure as I can be that we all know the law and will make sure it really doesn't happen again.

Now to the programme. As the weeks go on we are developing the format and the most interesting, and slightly unexpected, thing I've found is how hard it is to make sure there's a spread of sports in each programme. This is why I've always said we need to be judged over a number of programmes. But it is exceedingly difficult to make sure there isn't too much football, cricket, etc, in each show.

We are at the mercy of when sporting stars choose to make themselves available, and because we always ask for extra time and access, we have to go with when they can free themselves up.