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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: How to create a wildlife haven in your garden

How to create a wildlife haven in your garden

BBC Radio Scotland - Grow It, How to create a wildlife haven in your garden

Nicola Singleton discovers the simple steps you can take to rewild your garden.

The rangers at the Jupiter Urban Wildlife Centre in Grangemouth show Nicola Singleton how easy it is to make  your garden more friendly to wildlife.

How about starting a bog to brighten up your garden? September's the ideal time to get going on a new project. As autumn approaches you can transform your garden into a haven for animals, amphibians and insects. 

Nicola Singleton's been to the Jupiter Urban Wildlife Centre in Grangemouth to learn how to easily establish a hibernation woodpile, a wildflower patch and a bog garden. Rangers Claire Martin and Jack Farge take her through the first steps of these rewilding projects.

Kale is not normally something the Kitchen Cafe's Jenny MacPherson would put on her plate, but chef Graeme Pallister reckons he's got a dish that will change her mind.

Over in the Beechgrove garden Carole Baxter tells us why now is the moment to be planting some bare root roses.

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