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The Kitchen Garden

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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: 13/08/2015

13/08/2015

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kitchen Garden, 13/08/2015

The Kitchen Garden visits Scotland's home of heritage gardening, Threave Gardens.

The Kitchen Garden visits Scotland's home of heritage gardening, Threave Gardens near Castle Douglas, and talks to gardeners Brian Corr and Michael Lawrie.

Edible hogweed, heritage produce and Scotland's only bat reserve. This week, The Kitchen Garden is at Scotland's home of heritage gardening, Threave Gardens near Castle Douglas. 

Threave Gardens is the only National Trust for Scotland property that was specifically created for educational purposes. The gardens are an open air classroom for horticultural students learning the art and craft of heritage growing. Threave gardeners Brian Corr and Michael Lawrie describe the garden and discuss why need to preserve both our heritage varieties and out traditional gardening practices.

One woman's weed is another man's lunch - Forager Mark Williams takes Horticulturalist Frances Pringle for a forage around some of the less cultivated areas of Threave to look for some lunch, while also looking at how to differentiate between the dangerous giant hogweed from its smaller edible relative.

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