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The Kitchen Garden

Factual: Food & Drink

Factual: Homes & Gardens: Gardens

Pennie Latin

Celebrating the sheer joy of growing and cooking your own fruits, herbs and vegetables.

The Kitchen Garden team celebrate the joy of growing and cooking your own fruits, herbs and vegetables.

The Kitchen Garden: 07/06/2013

07/06/2013

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kitchen Garden, 07/06/2013

Alys Fowler on preserving home-grown produce and Mark Greenaway cooks lamb with asparagus.

Alys Fowler talks about preserving home-grown produce and Mark Greenaway cooks lamb with asparagus and broad beans. Plus how the weather may affect strawberry crops.

Celebrity gardener Alys Fowler tells Pennie Latin about how to make the most of home-grown produce and shares her ideas for pickling, drying and fermeting fruit and veg.  With Christopher Trotter of Whole Hog cooking classes and food tours.  Plus Dick Youngson, Chair of Nairn Allotment Society advises on how to go about harvesting and drying onions.

If you're concerned about how the weather might have affected your strawberries then don't worry - the professional growers are in the same boat!  But the later season could mean that we're in for a bumper sweet crop of soft fruits this year.  John Gray of Angus Soft Fruits helps explain the Brix Measurement Index which measures the sweetness of soft fruits.

Chef Mark Greenaway makes Perthshire lamb with asparagus, broadbeans, fresh peas and beetroot puree.

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