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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: 29/08/2014

29/08/2014

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kitchen Garden, 29/08/2014

Growing and cooking squash, sowing green manures and the story behind Newburgh's Orchard.

Pennie Latin has advice on cooking and growing squash and finds out when and how to sow green manures. Plus Dan Holland discovers the story behind Newburgh's Orchard.

Chef and cafe owner Kirsten Gilmour cooks live outside in the gardens of the BBC in Inverness with Pennie Latin and the team. This week she's using squash and apples.

Pennie visits Hawthorn Allotments in Inverness to get an update on how the fruit and veg have been doing recently and speaks to plot holder Richard Crawford about growing and harvesting squash.

Late summer is the perfect time to start sowing green manures. Richard Crawford advises on what to sow as green manures and how to get the best out of them.

Dan Holland takes a trip to Newburgh in Fife to discover the history of fruit growing there and the story of the Newburgh Orchard.

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