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The Beechgrove Garden 2021 episode 4

The Beechgrove Garden 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / April 22, 2021 / By HDclump

The Beechgrove Garden 2021 episode 4: In this episode, Carole shows how to grow potatoes in recycled containers, while Brian is growing heritage potatoes in the veg plot. Meanwhile, Calum Clunie shares some secrets of award-winning potato growing at his Leven allotment. George is at home in sunny Joppa and shows the progress of his speedy seeds for small spaces, and we catch up with Lucy Dalglish, whose modest Maryhill balcony is overflowing with edible promise this year. The Beechgrove Garden 2021 episode 4 How to grow potatoes Potatoes are hugely versatile and a staple ingredient […]

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Gardeners’ World 2021 episode 1

Gardeners World 2021 / 6 minutes of reading / March 20, 2021 / By HDclump

Gardeners’ World 2021 episode 1: Monty Don welcomes spring at Longmeadow with plenty of changes in the garden to share. As well as getting on with some essential pruning, he lifts and divides perennials, starts sowing chillies and begins growing this year’s vegetables. Alternative Stream Fullscreen Last autumn, Joe Swift travelled to Swansea to join Sue Kent and find out about her new plan to grow vegetables on her allotment. There’s a meeting with a passionate gardener at Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire who curates a national collection of over 100 different varieties of rhubarb, and in Leeds

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 16 2020

The Beechgrove Garden 2020 / 4 minutes of reading / July 30, 2020 / By HDclump

The Beechgrove Garden episode 16 2020: This week, Carole and George are enjoying a mid-season harvest. Carole reveals the tatties that she planted in containers in the first episode, and George harvests cabbage and blackcurrants at his allotment in sunny Joppa. Meanwhile, Chris checks on the progress of his box blight battle and explains the art of cloud pruning. Beechgrove is a hardy annual TV gardening series which sets out to deal with, glory in and celebrate Scottish horticulture and growing conditions. Beechgrove is and always has been a firmly practical, get-your-hands-dirty gardening programme which delights in success

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Gardeners World episode 8 2020

Gardeners World 2020 / 6 minutes of reading / May 8, 2020 / By HDclump

Gardeners World episode 8 2020: To help viewers make the most of bank holiday Friday, Monty has plenty of ideas of how to fill the rest of the weekend, from potting on seedlings to sowing tender vegetables. Rachel de Thame reviews the progress of her new kitchen garden and begins planting out peas and sowing flower seeds. For tips on growing your own at home, Nick Bailey shows how to make an easy cold frame for storing precious plants and seedlings. With mental health ever important, Joe Swift meets Will Young, whose new-found love of gardening was key

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Gardeners World episode 1 2020

Gardeners World 2020 / 7 minutes of reading / March 20, 2020 / By HDclump

Gardeners World episode 1 2020: It is the first day of spring and Monty has sharpened his tools in readiness to open the gardening year, accompanied, of course, by Nigel and Nellie, in the first episode of the series. Monty reflects on how Longmeadow has fared during an extraordinarily wet winter and gets going on a few essential tasks to get the garden into gear for the seasons to come. With the popularity of houseplants gaining huge momentum, Frances Tophill visits RHS Wisley to find out how to look after the myriad types of indoor plants now available

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Gardeners World episode 5 2012

Gardeners’ World 2012 / 2 minutes of reading / January 8, 2020 / By HDclump

Gardeners World episode 5 2012: It’s Easter and the biggest gardening weekend of the year, so even if you haven’t yet dusted off your lawnmower, there’s plenty of advice and inspiration – from large projects to tackling weeds. At Longmeadow, Monty is getting started on the vegetable plot, where he recommends a palette of potatoes for delicious summer crops. He also returns to his newly created pond, where he is showing how to conceal the liner with an attractive edge. Carol Klein celebrates the humble daffodil. She travels to Lincolnshire and discovers drifts of wild daffodils, but also

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 11 2019

The Beechgrove Garden 2019 / 1 minute of reading / August 15, 2019 / By HDclump

The Beechgrove Garden episode 11 2019: potatoes taste best when you grow your own and straight from the ground. Carole harvests three varieties of tiny potatoes from the container garden and Brian and George form an orderly queue to taste them. George, Brian and Carole attempt to answer as many viewer gardening questions as they can in a quick-fire round dealing with Scotland’s top-ten pests and diseases for 2019. The Beechgrove Garden episode 11 2019 Brian visits The Field Project in Dunkeld. An all-inclusive community project with people of all ages and backgrounds, it is a collective

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Gardeners World episode 2 2019

Gardeners’ World 2019 / 3 minutes of reading / March 15, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardeners World episode 2 2019: As spring approaches, it is time to get going with sowing seeds and Monty recommends varieties to sow now for months of summer colour. With conifers enjoying a revival, he also plants up a pot to give interest all year round. Adam Frost is inspired by a visit to York Gate in Leeds. Famed for the use and manipulation of plants to give structure to the garden, Adam shows us how we can replicate parts of its design for our own gardens. Annual climbing plants are an easy and inexpensive way to fill

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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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