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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: 27/06/2014

27/06/2014

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kitchen Garden, 27/06/2014

Cooking both cabbage and lavender, plus the important jobs to do now for tomato plants.

Cooking with both cabbage and lavender, how the varying geography and climate affects the produce grown in Scottish gardens, and jobs to do now to ensure success with tomatoes!

Chef Neil Forbes cooks live outside in the BBC gardens in Inverness with freshly-picked, seasonal produce. This week he's using cabbages in a bubble and squeak and also lavender in creme brulee.

Writer and gardener Kenneth Cox tells Pennie Latin about how the varying geography and climate in Scotland affects the produce grown here.

Gardener Nicola Singleton explains the importance of keeping up-to-date with all the essential jobs in the garden at this time of year and advises on what needs done right now if you're growing tomatoes.

Continuing our culinary jaunt around the Commonwealth, world food expert Ghillie Basan talks about the food traditions of Cyprus.

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