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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: Indoor Plants, Bonsai Trees and Broad Beans

Indoor Plants, Bonsai Trees and Broad Beans

BBC Radio Scotland - Grow It, Indoor Plants, Bonsai Trees and Broad Beans

Creating indoor plant displays, caring for bonsai trees and cooking with broad beans.

How to create stunning house plant displays, the dos and don'ts of getting started with bonsai trees, how to cook a delicious broad bean frittata and using pallets in the garden.

In our second programme from Gardening Scotland Nicola Singleton and the team speak to indoor plant expert Ian Drummond who designs stunning house plant displays for Sir Elton John. 

If you have never thought of having a bonsai tree Jeff Banning from the Scottish Bonsai Association explains all the basics of getting started.

Meanwhile, over in the kitchen Carina Contini demonstrates how to make a broad bean frittata in this week’s seasonal recipe.

A new venture Perth Community Farm is getting up and running. Founder Craig Burnett explains how they want to get school children involved as well as kids and young adults with learning difficulties. 

And horticultural lecturer Ann Burns tell us about the imaginative uses that can be found for old building pallets in the garden.

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