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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: Seasonal peas, thin soils and the health benefits of gardening

Seasonal peas, thin soils and the health benefits of gardening

BBC Radio Scotland - Grow It, Seasonal peas, thin soils and the health benefits of gardening

Health benefits of gardening, cooking seasonal peas and coping with thin soils.

The health and wellbeing benefits of gardening are central to the ethos behind Dr Neil's garden in Edinburgh, growing and cooking fresh garden peas plus coping with thin soils.

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 visiting Dr Neil’s Garden in Edinburgh, located in a beautiful spot between Arthur Seat and Duddingston Loch. 

Jim Baird explains how the garden was created by two local doctors, married couple Nancy and Andrew Neil. They were firm believers in the health and wellbeing benefits of gardening and encouraged their patients to help out. 

This ethos continues and some of the current crop of volunteer gardeners tell us how it benefits them. 
 
Meanwhile, in the Kitchen Neil Forbes shows Gillian Russell how to make the most of fresh summer peas with a delicious and easy peasy Petits Pois a la Francaise. There are also plenty of tips on growing your own. 

Carole Baxter demonstrates how you can still have trees in your garden even if you have limited space.

And head gardener Claudia Pottier explains how they are overcoming issues with thin soils and shade and making use of unusual cooking ingredients from the garden.

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