The Beechgrove Garden 2022 episode 12
The Beechgrove Garden 2022 episode 12: Calum is at Beechgrove designing and building a garden modest in both size and budget, but big on ideas and inspiration for anyone starting their own garden. George is at his allotment in Joppa and, as ever, he has been busy over the winter building more-accessible raised beds and laying new paths ready for the season’s growing.
https://hdclump.com/the-great-garden-revolution-2022-episode-2/
https://hdclump.com/spring-gardening-with-carol-klein-episode-6/
https://hdclump.com/the-great-garden-revolution-2022-episode-2/
https://hdclump.com/spring-gardening-with-carol-klein-episode-6/
Transcript
00:11Kirsty, I don't know about you,
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00:29it's almost like hair.
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00:42And it just spreads in amongst
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00:53So obviously, manually, we can
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01:08And obviously what we're scooping
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01:22So later on in the programme
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01:35that we planted up
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01:47pesky pests,
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02:06And it's amazing what we've packed
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02:17from last year with the tattie
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02:29I'm on at the spinach here,
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02:47That's quite an unusual variety.
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03:00That would look really vibrant and
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03:09Yeah, a lovely mix called
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03:22in that one container.
03:23Another salad crop is celtuce here,
03:26which is an unusual sort
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03:40And this one's called Slow Bolt.
03:42So again, that's resistant
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undefined:undefinedchoi and this is an unusual one,
03:57Shun Li Choi, which is
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04:07and you can use it in stir fries.
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04:19even in a small garden,
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04:41to be growing for the shows.
04:42So the first show schedule came
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04:55pot plants can't exceed ten inches.
04:58Now, that's quite a small pot
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05:18and the variety is Beacon.
05:20Just going to knock that
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05:43we're going to get another pot,
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06:04rip the top pot off
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06:30so, of course, you plant one seed,
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06:48I don't just want to plant
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07:18they're coming out as well.
07:22There you have it.
07:24We're on the road to getting
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07:47And do you want to know if it works?
07:48Well, last year we won the
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08:02and let air into the bag.
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08:21Then for the pot, what I'm using
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08:39so it's not flimsy.
08:41And we're not going to see this
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09:15some blood, fish and bone.
09:20And then it's just a case
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09:45Just knock this out the pot.
09:47Look at the roots on that. Just
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10:29later on in the series.
10:30So here I am on the edge
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10:47So, oh, it's a pretty messy job.
10:52But I've got the
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11:15pink flower and it's going to get
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11:29Yeah, well, they're deep water
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11:40Add some oxygenators as well?
11:42So a little ranunculus here, that's
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11:53And this one doesn't have any sort
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12:03And, well, I brought over
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12:14And then what I'm going to do
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12:26you won't get any disturbance.
12:28And again, it stops, it stops
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12:41I'm going to do a different
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12:52So we just will nestle
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13:00And you know, the other nice thing
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13:13Absolutely brilliant.
13:14So now it's over to George.
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13:34over the last two, three weeks.
13:36We've hardly had a spit of rain.
13:38So the top of the soil, if you look
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13:52and you break the little capillary
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14:02when the seedlings are
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14:20I promised you some companion
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14:39should disguise the scent
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15:07this is the area last year
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15:22What I'm going to do is, I'm going
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16:12from where the stem joins the tuber.
16:14So the idea is, that I'm going to
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16:45They arrived in the packaging
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17:03So there we are, set them out.
17:06So, simple, really.
17:08Just get them in the ground,
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17:45So you might remember between
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18:01Totally Tangerine, down the bottom.
18:03We've got a lily, martagon lily,
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18:30and just gently firm
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18:46and that will be a lovely,
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18:59And then along the front here
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19:17as it's in the summer months and we
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19:30who are experimenting
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19:54So in here I've got my greenhouse
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20:15with the raised beds, it's still
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20:30So they were built specifically
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20:45for the birds and bees.
20:47I want to remove as much of the
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21:03and bugs and butterflies.
21:04I feel like I see so few butterflies
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21:21This is just really an experiment
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21:39So I've got a selection because this
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21:51And is it worth spending the extra
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22:05Now we've raked, we will shake.
22:20So satisfying. I've got this
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22:39and just make sure I keep it
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23:02Tap that out.
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23:24And it's nice to have a vegetable
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23:47from using my raised beds
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24:12So this avocado, I planted it
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25:00by food we already have and eat.
25:03Yeah. As long as I don't
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25:21have a greenhouse and just
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25:35So this goes to show that
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25:46We have an iris, a miniature
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26:02it's now running to seed and there's
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26:18So what have we got there?
26:20We've got club root. What do you do?
26:22Don't put all of this on
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26:40you can put that
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26:49absolutely stunning
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27:15Yes, a bit of a challenge. In fact,
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27:29you can watch it all again
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