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The Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2016

In the Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2016, Jim is in the veggie plot still managing to crop late veg and it's also hedge cutting time of year and Jim sets about the conifer hedge and the pleached lime. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Beechgrove-Garden-ep.22-2016.mp4"][/video]   Carole is with Mieke Guijt and family in rural Aberdeenshire helping her once again to garden on a budget. This week Carole encourages Mieke to lift and divide plants from friend's gardens and in this case, the friends are Beechgrove. Continuing the budget theme, Carole then visits Mari Reid in Ardersier, whose whole garden is full of money-saving ideas while still managing to be penny-pinching pretty. Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2016:   Mini fruit collection We are conscious that many new gardens have the challenge of growing fruit in a small space. At Beechgrove we are growing a new mini fruit collection in a border

The Beechgrove Garden episode 12 2016

In Beechgrove Garden episode 12 2016, Jim and George are planning for jam tomorrow as Jim sorts out the raspberries, while George is a wee bit more exotic and tends to the fig and the vine. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Beechgrove-Garden-ep.12-2016.mp4"][/video]   In Garden on a Budget, Carole is with Meike Guijt and family in rural Kennethmont helping mould a garden out of almost nothing. This week, they create a garden table from an old tree stump and plant some edible flowers. Jim is concerned that gardening is not offered as a career choice for young people. In a mission to find How to Grow a Gardener, Jim visits the enlightened Breadalbane Academy in Aberfeldy, which has practical gardening on the curriculum as well as a beautiful community garden to show for it. Beechgrove Garden episode 12 2016:  1. Seed tapes In a new trial for this year Carole was looking at different methods of seed sowi

The Beechgrove Garden episode 6 2016

In Beechgrove Garden episode 6 2016: Carole continues with her windowsill gardening and sows herbs and salad leaves, which can be used to produce tasty, foodie salads for weeks. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Beechgrove-Garden-ep.6-2016.mp4"][/video]   In Garden on a Budget, Carole is with Mieke Guijt in rural Kennethmont, helping to mould a garden out of almost nothing. Carole takes Mieke on a budget shopping trip to buy materials for easy-to-make compost bays and shows her how to have plants for 'free'. George visits the painterly garden of Broughton House in Kirkcudbright. The house and garden belonged to EA Hornel, artist, collector and 'Glasgow boy'. George discovers how much the garden influenced Hornel's paintings. Beechgrove Garden episode 6 2016:  1. Windowsill Gardening Carole was in the greenhouse with snow falling all around her with the 2nd of her series on growing p