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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: Recycling, Growing for Butterflies, Seasonal Tomatoes

Recycling, Growing for Butterflies, Seasonal Tomatoes

BBC Radio Scotland - Grow It, Recycling, Growing for Butterflies, Seasonal Tomatoes

Gardening recycling tips, plants for attracting butterflies and cooking with tomatoes.

Gardening recycling tips, choosing the best plants for attracting butterflies, how to create a Japanese kokedama, advice on peat-free gardening and cooking with seasonal tomatoes.

In the first of two programmes from Gardening Scotland, Nicola Singleton and the team get some recycling advice from Angela Smith at the Royal Horticultural Society on how green-fingered gardeners can be even more green…!

Gardener Billy Carruthers explains why he moved to peat-free gardening and how well it could work for your garden.

In this week’s seasonal recipe, chef Neil Forbes shows Dan Holland how to make a tomato and courgette tart, full of summer flavour!

Anthony McCluskey from Butterfly Conservation Scotland explains how the kind of flowers you plant can make a huge difference to your chances of attracting butterflies into your garden. 

Angela Smith demonstrates how to make a kokedama – a Japanese hanging moss ball.

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