ALAN TITCHMARSH APPEARED on BBC Breakfast this morning and caused a bit of a stir with his choice language.
Remember him? The gardener and TV presenter was one of the stars of legendary gardening show Ground Force, along with Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh.
Titchmarsh has a new show starting on UTV tonight, called Love Your Garden. To promote it, he visited the BBC’s flagship Breakfast show for a bit of greenfingered chat.
During the discussion, Titchmarsh used an old gardening term, ‘bastard trenching’. It means double digging, and has nothing to do with the meaning we might attribute to it these days.
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No one seemed to mind, until the BBC apologised for his offensive language.
Host Louise Minchin explained after the interview:
Thank you very much. And I just have to offer our apologies for the language used in the last couple of minutes. Apologies if people were offended.
Titchmarsh hit back with:
Oh no! It’s a term in a gardening book. I shan’t repeat it but it’s not offensive at all.
Groan. Everyone was mortified.
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Bastard-trench is described by Oxford Dictionaries as
Dig (ground) by digging over the lower soil with thetopsoil temporarily removed.
The more you know.
