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The Beechgrove Garden episode 25 2016

In Beechgrove Garden episode 25 2016, leaves are falling in the garden but that's not necessarily a bad thing as Jim uses them to make lovely leaf mould. He also shows the steamy secrets of his new hot box composter. Carole makes her last visit to Mieke and family in rural Aberdeenshire where they are gardening on a budget and this week they learn how to shred material to make economical but pretty paths. [video width="960" height="540" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Beechgrove-Garden-ep.25-2016.mp4"][/video]   Jim knows very well that gardening is good for you but this week it's especially so as he marks the 10th anniversary of Trellis, which is designed to support therapeutic gardening as he visits a really restorative nursery and garden, Solstice, in Banchory-Devenick. Beechgrove Garden episode 25 2016:   Overwintering vegetables A month ago Jim repeated a little exercise we did last year in the polytunnel – planting ove

The Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2016

In Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2016, Jim is thinking ahead and planting overwintering veg that will be ready to crop in the spring. 2016 is the 50th anniversary of Keep Scotland Beautiful. To mark that, Carole takes a look around Colourful Carnoustie, a relative newcomer to the Keep Scotland Beautiful campaign. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Beechgrove-Garden-ep.21-2016.mp4"][/video]   George visits social enterprise group Seedbox in Ballogie near Aboyne. The group have asked Beechgrove to help them tame two huge and very old Yew trees. On a muggy and sultry day weather-wise at the Beechgrove Garden Jim, Carole and Chris decided to have a look at the stumpery created by Chris in 2013. The idea was to use tree stumps from the huge conifer hedge that was felled to create a feature in an otherwise difficult corner of the garden - shaded under the canopy overhung with lots of shrubs and trees and in wh