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Gardening legend Kevin Heinze passed away in Melbourne yesterday at the age of 81. Kevin suffered a heart attack at the weekend.
He hosted a weekly gardening talkback segment on Melbourne's ABC Radio for 37 years until sadly he was asked to leave the station at the end of 2004. ([link=http://www.theage.com.au/news/TV--Radio/Kevin-bids-his-last-cheerio/2004/12/18/1103312783710.html]article[/link])

To many he will be best remembered for the ABC gardening television show Sow What from 1967 to 1988, with his signiture sign off of ''Cheerio for now'. Sow What was mainly broadcast from his own property in Montrose, in Melbourne's outer-east.