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The Beechgrove Garden 2025 episode 14

The Beechgrove Garden 2025 / 16 minutes of reading / July 3, 2025 / By HDclump

The Beechgrove Garden 2025 episode 14: It’s July at The Beechgrove Garden, and with the arrival of high summer, the garden pulses with energy and expectation. This week, the spotlight is on harvesting—a deeply rewarding part of the gardening journey where patience meets payoff. You can almost hear the rustle of crops ready to reveal their bounty, and there’s a certain joy in rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands into the soil.

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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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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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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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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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