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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: Community Gardening, Redcurrants and Citrus Trees

Community Gardening, Redcurrants and Citrus Trees

BBC Radio Scotland - Grow It, Community Gardening, Redcurrants and Citrus Trees

Creating an urban community croft, cooking with redcurrants and growing citrus trees.

The joy of creating an urban community croft, cooking with redcurrants, how to get mixed planting to work and tips for growing citrus trees.

Nicola Singleton and the team help you make the most of your growing space – whatever shape and size it comes in – and inspire you with a weekly seasonal recipe.

Today they’re off to Leith Links in Edinburgh to visit the Crops In Pots community garden.

Founder Evie Murray explains how the idea of the urban croft came about and the ways in which the local community have embraced the shared growing space.

Gardeners Tom and Katherine explain how they get mixed planting to work on the urban croft and why they like to encourage bees to the growing area.

In this week’s seasonal recipe, chef Carina Contini shows Gillian Russell how to make a redcurrant syrup, perfect for drizzling over a simple vanilla sponge … plus gardening tips for growing and cultivating redcurrants in your own garden.

Carole Baxter shows Helen Needham that it’s possible to grow your own citrus fruit, right here in Scotland.

Tom describes the idea behind their latest garden experiment – hot composting!

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