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Nicola Singleton helps you get the most from your growing space whatever size it is.

Nicola Singleton helps you get the very best from your growing space, whatever shape or size it is, as we celebrate Scottish seasonality in your garden and your kitchen.

Nicola Singleton helps you get the very best from your growing space, whatever shape or size it is, as we celebrate the seasonality through Scottish gardens and kitchens. Coming from a range of gardens across Scotland, Grow It is peppered with seasonal gardening advice and weekly masterclasses from a range of experts, together with antidotes to a variety of growing pains and advice for the city gardener along with the occasional foray into wild flowers, herbs and foods, for those with green and non-green fingers alike. And, to help you make the most of the wonderful home-grown produce that the Scottish growing season offers up, we'll also be dropping in on the kitchen garden with advice for grow-your-own enthusiasts and our team of chefs who have a selection of brilliant recipes as well as advice on what varieties will deliver you the best flavour in the kitchen.

Grow It: Gardening on Loch Ness, new potatoes and perennial kitchen herbs

Gardening on Loch Ness, new potatoes and perennial kitchen herbs

BBC Radio Scotland - Grow It, Gardening on Loch Ness, new potatoes and perennial kitchen herbs

Gardening on Loch Ness, growing perennial herbs and a seasonal recipe for new potatoes.

Discovering the links a Loch Ness garden has with the Falkland Islands, the top five perennial herbs we could all try cultivating at home and a seasonal recipe for new potatoes.

Nicola Singleton and the team help you get the most from your growing space.  This week they visit Abriachan Garden Nursery on the banks of Loch Ness and discover the links it has with other corners of the globe...

Garden owner Don Davidson describes how he came to be gardening in the Falklands and New Zealand, the growing challenges they faced there and how it compares with gardening in the Highlands of Scotland.  Plus, how many varieties of primula can you squeeze into one garden nursery?!

Gardening expert Carole Baxter explains why herbs are so good to grow if you’re short of space and suggests the top five perennial herbs we should all have a go at cultivating.

Chef Neil Forbes demonstrates a simple recipe to make the most of this week’s seasonal ingredient – new potatoes.

And Nicola rounds up the gardening jobs we should be tackling this week.

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