Video Documentaries

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

Jim, Carole and George begin a series of bulb plantings by naturalising some unusual bulbs in the new lawn. Chris, with advice from Jim and Carole, takes on an emotional job as the decision is made to cut down and replace the 15-year-old cryptomeria tree in Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2016. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Beechgrove-Garden-ep.20-2016.mp4"][/video]   Jim visits a special garden that he has been hoping to see for years, Portmore near Eddleston. Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2016:   Asparagus and sweetcorn In the spring a new Asparagus crop was planted in one of the polytunnels – the variety was ‘Mondeo’.  As these are new plants they were not cropped this year. They have been left to grow and will be treated like herbaceous perennials. Once the fronds start to go yellow they will be cut back to the ground and next year can be harvested for 8 weeks. Cryptomeria Replacement The hard deci

In the Beechgrove Garden, the greenhouses and the polytunnels are pregnant with produce to come. Jim is minding his tomatoes while Carole in the polytunnel is dealing with her spaghetti squash and noticing hopeful tassels on the sweetcorn. [video width="832" height="468" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BG-ep.16-2015.mp4"][/video]   Carole makes the first of two forays away up north to Orkney. She visits Caroline Critchlow's garden, which is a historic walled garden a stone's throw from the sea and completely restored in 2008. The garden is planted to withstand winds in excess of 100mph and the planting reflects its coastal location and is done in cottage style with towering alliums, many varieties of geranium and plants collected from around Europe. Jim, Carole and George were walking through the greenhouse area admiring the hanging baskets and the lovely corridor of summer colour. They noticed that there were not many cherr