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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: 16/07/2015

16/07/2015

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kitchen Garden, 16/07/2015

Pennie Latin visits Ardnamurchan, where the residents are gardening against the elements.

Pennie Latin visits Ard Daraich, a home in Ardnamurchan, where the residents battle against the weather and a distinct lack of soil in order to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

Pennie Latin and the kitchen garden team head West and climb aboard the ferry bound for the Ardnamurchan peninsula. The first stop is Ard Daraich in Ardgour, where thrashing winds batter the landscape regularly and the sun barely peeps over the hills in winter; not your typical spot for a fruitful kitchen garden you're thinking? Well, this episode will prove you wrong. Pennie Latin meets Anna and Norrie MacLaren. Not only do they battle the extreme weather but also rocks and a distinct lack of soil in their 8 acre hill garden.
If that's not enough, this garden has even more intrigue. Famous florist and cookbook author Constance Spry once owned this house as her holiday home. New owner Anna pays homage in making her rhubarb and ginger compote. Dan Holland heads to Acharacle to meet Jill Gosney. Jill has encountered boggy ground, acidic soil and salty, scorching winds; yet still she maintains a garden with over 300 species of plants.

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