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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: Planting autumn colours, Cooking with figs and Cultivating climbers

Planting autumn colours, Cooking with figs and Cultivating climbers

BBC Radio Scotland - Grow It, Planting autumn colours, Cooking with figs and Cultivating climbers

Planting autumn colours, the best fig recipe ideas and how to successfully grow climbers.

Planting autumn colours, the best fig recipe ideas, inspiration for creating a biblical garden and how to successfully grow climbers.

Nicola Singleton visits Dumfries railway station and finds an intriguing garden space on the platform!

Station gardener Louis Wall explains the story behind this garden and the 15 other gardens along the line he tends to.

Along the platform and right beside the church lies the biblical garden, crammed full of plants which feature in the bible.  Which other books could you use as inspiration for your own garden? 

Figs are grown in the biblical garden and they are bang in season but how best to use them?  Chef Graeme Pallister demonstrates a simple but delicious fig sundae recipe.

If you're short of space in your own garden, Carole Baxter offers tips and advice for getting climbing plants just right.

Back at Dumfries station garden, Louis shows Nicola the planting he's currently doing for the autumn, injecting bursts of colour that will last through to November...

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