Beechgrove Garden - 2009
Scotland's gardening series returns for another season to dig up pearls of wisdom from the past and Jim McColl, Carole Baxter, Lesley Watson and Carolyn Spray give out advice for the present
Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 1
Horticultural tips. The team take a look at the challenges that a snowy winter has thrown at the garden, Jim returns to the vegetable plot, and Carole meets a tree doctor.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 10
Jim, Carole, Lesley and Carolyn present a bedding-plant special. Carolyn helps revamp a communal garden in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. And Jim visits Cluny House Gardens in Perthshire.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 11
Jim checks on the progress of the family orchard and tomato town. Lesley starts planting in her Tuscan Feast garden. Carole revels in an extraordinary iris collection in Drybridge.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 12
Jim and Carole spend time with the plotters of Heathryfold Allotments to hear their success story as well as seeing the many initiatives going on.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 13
The team cross the Atlantic bridge to help with the final stages of a community garden that is being created around the new community hall on the stunning slate island of Seil.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 14
In this schools programme, the Beechgrove team are split into groups and take a look at two very special school garden projects as they try to achieve coveted 'Green Flag' status.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 15
Gardening programme. Jim tackles a range of viewers' tomato torments, while Carole Baxter takes a look to see if the Fastflowers she sowed have lived up to their name.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 16
Gardening programme. Jim takes a big romp around the veg plot, looking at the beautiful brassicas, blooming beans and perfect peas, and gives a new plant range the Beechgrove test.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 17
Jim wages war on the greenhouse pests that have arrested the development of the aubergines and peppers, but finds that bringing in a little natural balance can be the best weapon.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 18
Jim shows how a little fruit summer pudding can work wonders to increase yield, and tests a new development in the battle to keep the raspberry beetle at bay.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 19
In the Beechgrove Garden, Jim is in the vegetable plot, troubleshooting and harvesting. He discovers onion fly on the shallots, but also finds some magnificent runner beans.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 2
Horticultural tips. The team decide to build a garden which will weather the credit crunch, and Carole takes a look at some of the many slug and snail deterrents on the market.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 20
Jim sows 'green manure' in the garden, and gives the grass some tender lawn care. Plus Carole tots up the final costs on the Credit Crunch Garden, and adds the finishing touches.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 21
Gardening tips and features. It is harvest time in the Beechgrove Garden, and Jim reaps a bumper crop of squashes, pumpkins, aubergines and peppers.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 22
In this one-hour special, the team visit Colinton Primary School, which has ambitious ideas for creating a garden for the school and community on an old WWII firing range.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 23
Gardening tips and features. Jim is planting spring cabbage in the vegetable plot while Carole is still harvesting sweetcorn, blueberries and a new crop of Saskatoon berries.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 24
Gardening tips and features. Jim McColl and the team batten down the hatches for winter and look forward to spring. Marek Mozoloski shows off his greenhouse heat pump to Jim.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 3
Horticultural tips. To mark a seed company's Year of the Tomato initiative for 2009, Jim McColl grows a new range of tomatoes. Lesley and Carole report on the marestail epidemic.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 4
After the winter's snow, it is time to check on some 'patients' in the garden. Plant doctors Jim, Carole and Lesley are on ward rounds making diagnoses and some tough decisions.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 5
Jim tends to the peach, cherry and vines, while Carole adds some new fruit to the blueberry tunnel. Lesley designs a new garden making the most of a confined space.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 6
Jim, Carole, Lesley and Carolyn help to create a community garden in the ancient Scottish town of Tain. They also try to solve some local gardening problems.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 7
Jim explains how to prune evergreens, while Lesley starts off a new experiment in the potager garden: productive and pretty miniature gardening.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 8
Carole practises artistic pruning, Jim plants yellow tomatoes, and Lesley takes a look at a new range of what she calls fast flowers - from seeds to flowers in six to eight weeks.
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Beechgrove Garden - 2009 - Episode 9
The team visits Gardening Scotland, at the Royal Highland Showground, Ingliston, just outside Edinburgh. The show is sometimes called the Chelsea of the North.
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