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The Beechgrove Garden episode 23 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / February 8, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 23 2015: Jim and Carole are preparing for the seasons to come as they show how to overwinter a whole range of vegetables so that they will be ready for harvest early next year. Jim is also preparing plants for the winter months and shows how to put begonias to bed. Also in the programme, Carole and George taste test Carole’s spaghetti squash and her greenhouse-grown aubergines while Jim and George revel in the late fruit harvest. Chris visits Greywalls Garden near Gullane. Built in 1901, Greywalls is a stunning example of an Edwardian […]

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / February 7, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2015: Jim Carole and Chris assessing how the new Michaelmas daisy collection has fared over the summer. Carole looks at her aubergines and peppers to see if they have managed to bear any fruit this season. Jim visits Heathryfold Allotments in Aberdeen, whose multicultural plotters grow a range of vegetables and fruit from their homelands. Both Jim and Carole are on the island of Bute, to attend and enjoy the famous local Horticultural Society’s summer flower show. The Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2015 1. Aubergines and Peppers Carole and Jim were in the

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 3 minutes of reading / February 6, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2015: the whole Beechgrove team are travelling ‘doon the watter’ to the Buteiful island of Bute and to Rothesay for a Beechgrove Special Roadshow. The Pavilion in Rothesay is the venue for a Beechgrove Q&A evening. The historical venue will be full of locals and their gardening questions which Jim, Carole, George and Chis will hope to have answers for. Bute has a favourable climate for growing and is known for Bute tatties, Bute dahlias and most recently Bute truffles. Jim and Carole will also visit some of the gardens of Bute to

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / February 5, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2015: Jim is on his own in the garden, taking on all his special subjects, including monitoring the progress of the tomatoes and reviewing his hydrangea pruning observation to see which of his three methods of pruning is working best and resulting in most flowers. Meanwhile, Carole and George are helping out with the last stages of the creation of a new community garden with the good folk of Inverbervie. The new community garden will be the central feature to a garden trail around the village, designed for locals to enjoy as a

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Gardening Australia ep.2 2018

Gardening Australia 2018 / 2 minutes of reading / February 4, 2018 / By HDclump

In Gardening Australia ep 2 2018: Costa and Sophie look at a project growing a new food crop in Darwin; Millie meets the landscape architect behind a wetland habitat garden; Josh looks at native plants for problem spots; Jerry propagates warm-season herbs. Gardening Australia ep 2 2018 provides practical, realistic, and credible horticultural and gardening advice, inspiring and entertaining all gardeners around the world. Presented by Australia’s leading horticultural experts, Gardening Australia is a valuable resource to all gardeners through the television program. Gardening Australia ep.2 2018 1. Top Crop Costa Georgiadis and Sophie Thomson are

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 19 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / February 3, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 19 2015: Jim and Carole are waging war on pests and take on 4 baddies; vine weevil, whitefly, slugs and snails. They identify the pest and its symptoms and recommend a few cures. Chris is back with his new-build couple, Jenny and Euan MacLean in Linlithgow. After months of work from Jenny and Euan this is Chris’s final visit and this time it’s the finishing touches – the fun bit, the planting. George visits Monteviot Garden near Jedburgh. This stunning 30-acre garden surrounds the house and spills out through richly-planted garden rooms down to

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 26 2017

The Beechgrove Garden 2017 / 1 minute of reading / February 2, 2018 / By HDclump

It’s the final programme of the Beechgrove series, and Jim, Carole, George, Chris and Brian are all battening down the hatches, preparing the garden for winter but with a barrowload of hopeful hints to anticipate spring. Jim and Carole have succumbed to a little tulip fever as they go a little crazy with bulbs, planting in containers, in spring displays and naturalising in the lawn. Sandy has a lifetime of experience to impart from how to keep tartan patterns on the lawn, through to keeping your shrubs in beautiful shape.

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 25 2017

The Beechgrove Garden 2017 / 1 minute of reading / January 22, 2018 / By HDclump

This week in Beechgrove Garden episode 25, the whole Beechgrove team head to what has been Jim McColl’s adopted home for the last 40 years, the Aberdeenshire town of Oldmeldrum, for the penultimate programme of the series. Jim takes us on a tour of the horticultural highlights of the area, including visiting the magnificent Haddo House, whose gardens have been recently restored to their 1830 heyday. Haddo House is also the venue for a Beechgrove question-and-answer session, where Jim, Carole, George and Brian attempt to answer some of the local gardening queries from the gardeners of Meldrum as

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 24 2017

The Beechgrove Garden 2017 / 2 minutes of reading / January 21, 2018 / By HDclump

The Beechgrove Garden is a blaze of early autumn colour and Jim and Carole show off some of the very best for this time of year from dahlias to hydrangeas. Scone Palace Gardens are overrun with rabbits and deer. At the start of the series, we saw head gardener Brian Cunningham setting up an observation to see what methods, if any, work to deter them and to find out if there really are rabbit-proof plants. Brian pulls a rabbit out of a hat with some surprising results. In Beechgrove Garden episode 24 : 1. Small Fruit Bed At

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 23 2017

The Beechgrove Garden 2017 / 2 minutes of reading / January 19, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 23 2017 it is hedge-clipping time and Jim, Carole and George trim their way around the garden. Chris finishes the planting in the heather garden to help create the windswept, top-of-the-mountain look, adding a range of tough grasses and ferns. From prodigious parsnips to dinner plate-sized dahlias, Jim visits the showers and growers at the Dundee Flower and Food Festival. Earlier this year, the Beechgrove team visited some of the entrants to the show to see how preparations were going. Jim catches up with them again at the show to see if their labours

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2017

The Beechgrove Garden 2017 / 1 minute of reading / January 12, 2018 / By HDclump

The whole Beechgrove team are on the road again, this time to the Fife county town of Cupar. Renowned for its award-winning floral displays, the Cupar in Bloom team have invited Beechgrove to come and take a look at their efforts, as well as hosting a Beechgrove Gardeners’ Question Time in the Corn Exchange. Jim, Carole, George and Brian attempt to answer as many Cupar gardening questions as possible. The team also visit some of Cupar’s outstanding gardens and tee off with a visit to Elmwood Golf Course.

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2017

The Beechgrove Garden 2017 / 2 minutes of reading / January 11, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2017: Jim takes a final tally and taste-test of tomatoes in the greenhouse. Carole is in Ardersier for Vegetable Garden on a Budget. Carole catches up with Mari Reid for harvest and a picnic on the beach, and to hear how much three families have saved and gained by growing their own. Tourists and townspeople often stop to admire the front garden of James Findlay in Carluke. Jim joins the crowd and James explains how he took over his neighbour’s garden to increase the kerb appeal in Carluke. In Beechgrove Garden episode 21

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