Video Documentaries

In Beechgrove Garden episode 16 2016 : Jim brings us up to date on how the crops in the veg plot are doing, whilst Carole checks up on the progress of more tender veg inside. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Beechgrove-Garden-ep.16-2016.mp4"][/video]   Chris battles with the bog garden at Beechgrove, replanting this previously overgrown area with wet soil loving plants. At North Kessock, just north of Inverness overlooking the Moray Firth, Carole marvels at a virtually vertical rock face lying on bedrock, which David and Penny Veitch have transformed over almost 30 years into a haven for alpines and scree plants. Jim, Carole and George were looking at the flower scatter seed mixes. And last year there was a colourful display provided by a commercially available scatter mix – which was sown over the whole bed in successive months over the season. The results inspired each of the presenting team to crea

In the Beechgrove Garden episode 5 2016, Jim is hoping that the soil is now warm enough to plant tatties in the main veggie plot, while on the decking garden Carole is also planting tatties on a tiny scale. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Beechgrove-Garden-ep.5-2016.mp4"][/video]   Chris and Carole are going on very different fungal forays in Beechgrove this year. Chris is creating a whole Jurassic Park fungal valley with ancient timbers and all manner of edible mushrooms. Again on the other end of the scale, Carole tries out some windowsill mushroom-growing kits. George visits Alan Shamash's impressive hillside garden full of an extensive collection of rhododendrons in Kirkudbright. The Beechgrove Garden episode 5 2016:  1. Windowsill Gardening Carole was starting a 3 part mini-series on how to go about productive gardening in the tiniest of all spaces, by growing crops on your windowsill. First

In Beechgrove Garden episode 26 2015: although this is the last in the present series, gardening is a year round activity and so Jim, Carole, George and Chris have a long list of jobs that we could and should be doing that will keep us all busy for the foreseeable. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Beechgrove-Garden-episode-26-2015.mp4"][/video]   This is also a perfect time to be planting and Chris and George are starting off a new project to create a 'sub-tropical' garden that although will look exotic and jungly next year, it will be created with super hardy plants. Carole visits Tom Taylor in Drumoak who lives on an estate where 30 years ago, the front gardens were all planted with 'dwarf conifers'. Those conifers have all grown into massive trees. Tom became interested in the Japanese art of Niwaki training and sculpting of trees. Tom shows Carole how to be more creative with conif

In Beechgrove Garden episode 15 2017, life is a way more than a bowl of cherries at Beechgrove this week as Jim and Carole harvest bucketfuls of ripe cherries in the fruit house. Carole visits two passionate showers and growers who are entering the Dundee Flower Show. Alistair Gray in Brechin is a show vegetable grower and winner of the 2016 World Potato Championship, while Bruce McLeod in Meigle grows champion chrysanthemums. Jim visits Philip and Marianne Santer at Langley Park near Montrose. With little previous gardening experience, they have reclaimed the long-neglected garden to create a haven of colour. To their amazement and delight, the garden has been attracting visitors to what they call their little piece of paradise. More in Beechgrove Garden episode 15 2017:  1. Begonia Propagation In Carole’s 6x8 greenhouse, the Coleus were looking much smaller than Bruce’s in Meigle, however they were grown from seed. The variety is ‘Chocolate Covered Cherry’ and the foliage was beautif

Everything is blooming rosy in the Beechgrove Garden as Jim, Carole and Chris catch up with progress of Beechgrove's new/old rose garden. [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BG-ep.18-2015.mp4"][/video]   And finding out a bit more about the science of plant genetics, Jim is at Dundee Botanic Garden taking a walk through plant history in their Evolutionary Garden. George is with Lee Street in Bonchester Bridge creating an edible, fruiting hedge as a windbreak to protect her existing productive raised beds.  In Beechgrove Garden episode 18 2015:  1. Cauliflower Comparison Jim was in the Main Vegetable Plot admiring the brassicas which have done well in the cool, wet conditions we’ve had this summer so far. In one part of the brassica beds, Jim has been growing two types of cauliflower – F1 hybrid vs open pollinated. ‘Clapton’, is an F1 hybrid which is described as club root resistant. The beautiful he

It's bedding plant time and Jim, Carole and George are planting out a bevy of beautiful bedding in the Beechgrove Garden. Scotland's number one bedding plant is the begonia, and Carole checks on the progress of her fertiliser observation using begonias as the test plant. Brian Cunningham responded to a cry for help from Susan Bulleid in Newton Mearns, who has a problematic dry shady spot under a mature beech tree. Brian uses the beech to its best advantage and creates a new woodland garden fit for purpose. Carole visits Hamish and Sue MacIntosh in Balnabuel, near Dalcross airport. The couple have carved this one-acre mixed garden full of choice plants out of a fissure of land to create many growing environments. In Beechgrove Garden episode 9 2017: Main Vegetable Plot After talking about frosted tatties, Jim was earthing up our tatties to protect them. This involved mounding up the soil around the emerging foliage - this also makes them easier to harvest in a ridge. The action

Staying small, George is in the fruit cage planting a new mini orchard. Hoping to prove that the fruit of your own labours is the sweetest, Jim is helping Carol Cocker in Inverurie to learn how to grow her own for the first time. Jim is like a child in a tree sweet shop as he visits an awesome arboretum in Kippen. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Beechgrove-Garden-episode-3-2015.mp4"][/video]   You will certainly have your five a day with Beechgrove this week. Jim is testing temperatures and hoping to sow early broad beans while Carole and Chris take a look at the fruits of their labours from last year with their containerised peaches. Vegetable Plot Jim was on the Main Vegetable Plot getting ready to start planting and sowing early crops. We have been watching the soil temperature closely to see when we can get sowing and planting. On the uncovered beds the temperature has risen to 7 °C – the cru