Video Documentaries

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 2017:  1. Pond Maintenance The pond has been really successful year. The gardeners have managed keep the algal bloom at bay so that all the plants have put on a huge amount of growth. The water lilies were starting to bloom. Last year Chris propagated some of these water lilies and planted them up, placing them on a shelf near the pond’s edge. It was now time to move them deeper into the pond as their stems were getting too long for their position. He gently floated t

Jim is planting a selection of swedes and turnips for later in the year. Meanwhile, Chris is attempting to create a rose garden at Beechgrove, but how will it cope with exposed Scottish conditions? Carole is in Ardersier for Vegetable Garden on a Budget, with recent research suggesting that a family of four could save roughly £1,500 a year growing their own vegetables. Mari Reid lives and gardens in Ardersier and has come up with a clever way of helping others to grow their own by using community-minded land or garden share. In The Beechgrove Garden episode 5 2017:  1. Turnips We are all creatures of habit and Jim is used to growing familiar varieties of salad turnip such as ‘Snowball’ which have been with us for many years. He was intrigued to see a whole range of new varieties in seed catalogues. ‘Tiny Pal’ for example looked good on the seed packet. Hopefully it will taste as good as it looks. Last year we missed the harvest of Jim’s summer crop of turnips so spurred on by George’s