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In The Beechgrove Garden episode 3 2018, Jim is planting with Beechgrove’s ruby anniversary in mind, sowing red veg from beetroot ‘Bulls Blood’, courgette ‘Midnight’ and lettuce ‘Moonred’ to spinach ‘Red Kitten’ and spicy mustard ‘Red Giant’.     Last year Jim began an observation choosing a range of trees for small gardens. This year he is adding to that with a range of fastigiate trees, which are perfect for a small garden as they don’t create much shade and have a small footprint. And Brian, who is used to modest swathes of daffodils at Scone Palace, visits Grampian Growers […]

In The Beechgrove Garden episode 2 2018, Jim and Carole celebrate Beechgrove’s ruby anniversary in true Beechgrove style as it’s tattie time. Both Jim and Carole are planting a range of ruby or red potatoes, and they also dig up an archive tattie tip from the late George Barron. Brian is back in Beechgrove revisiting his alpine garden and reviews the winter damage, as well as doing a bit of weeding and feeding.     Last year Carole met almost-nonagenarian garden hero Sandy Inkster in his immaculate and award-winning Cults garden. Carole will visit Sandy several times throughout the 2018

In The Beechgrove Garden episode 1 2018, it’s a very special series of Beechgrove as it is our 40th year or Ruby Anniversary and amongst other things we will be dipping into 40 years of the Beechgrove archive to see how things have or haven’t changed over the years in gardening. This week there are sweet signs of spring as Jim, Carole, George and Chris are surrounded by April’s peach and cherry blossom.     George revisits Sheila Harper’s ancient apple trees in Banchory. After a severe prune last year, George returns with slightly less sharp secateurs to show how

In Beechgrove Garden episode 24 2016, Jim, Carole and George are on the road again as they visit Strathkinness, the Best Kept Small Village in Fife, for the final Beechgrove Roadshow of the series. The villagers invited Beechgrove to enjoy the horticultural highlights of one of the sunniest places in Scotland.     The Beechgrove Garden episode 24 2016   In the village hall the community gathers to try and test the gardening know-how of Jim, Carole, George and Brian Cunningham (head gardener at Scone Palace), as they find out what grows and possibly what doesn’t in the area and