The Gardeners' World Blog

Much as we all love working on a belting Premiership weekend like the one just gone, covering live matches is always a real tonic for the troops.

For one thing, it means that we escape from our usual studio-based environment, and emerge blinking into the daylight. Admittedly, we in the production team merely exchange a bank of monitors at Television Centre for another in a van in a car park at Old Trafford. Even so, the immediacy of reacting to the action live on site, rather than a few hours later at base, gives us all a bit of an extra adrenalin rush.