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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: Pick Your Own Bouquet, Poached Plums And Veg In Plastic Bags

Pick Your Own Bouquet, Poached Plums And Veg In Plastic Bags

BBC Radio Scotland - Grow It, Pick Your Own Bouquet, Poached Plums And Veg In Plastic Bags

Advice on self-seeding, creating shelter in your garden and seasonal plum recipes.

Advice on self-seeding, creating shelter in your garden, growing vegetables in containers and a range of seasonal plum recipes.

Nicola Singleton visits a florist with a difference – at “Fit Like Flowers” in Aberdeenshire you can handpick the blooms that will make up your bouquet!

Owner Janie Gall shares her passion for gardening and offers advice on using self-seeding to create a sustainable crop year after year.  And with a garden that’s exposed to the elements, she explains the different ways to create shelter.

As plums start to ripen our team of chefs will be sharing their recipe ideas for what to do with them.  Kirsten Gilmour shows Andrew Thomson a simple poached lime and basil plum dish.

If you have a smaller garden what’s the best way to grow vegetables?  Carole Baxter gives Gillian Russell some useful tips for growing veg in containers.

Back inside, Janie shows Nicola some simple techniques for arranging flowers into a stunning display.

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