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October 2, 2013 Josh is planting a range of productive vegetables and leafy greens that will provide a bountiful harvest for his growing family, Jerry explains how citrus trees will tell you when it's time to fertilise your garden and Angus is visits a garden whose owner has spent the last ten years indulging in his passion for native plants. Also, Tino shows how to make more tomatoes for free and stagger plants them for an extended harvest while Jane shows how to keep costs down by propagating your own plants from cuttings. Finally, Sophie visits a couple who use the power of preserving to ensure that nothing they grow goes to waste.
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September 28, 2013 September 27th 2013.
Monty Don presents Gardeners' World from RHS Rosemoor in Devon. He will be finding out how they grow really productive fruit trees in the smallest of spaces and what it takes for a vegetable to earn the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Carol Klein will also be at Rosemoor getting seasonal inspiration from their extensive sedum collection, all nestled within the stunning borders in the garden. Joe Swift pays a visit to Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire to find out how a ten year experiment in naturalistic planting, by garden designer Piet Oudolf, is shaping up. Have you ever wondered what the life of an RHS volunteer is like? We visit RHS Harlow Carr near Harrogate to find out how the volunteers are vital in maintaining such a beautiful garden.
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September 24, 2013 September 21st 2013.
Tino is planting tomatoes to get a head start on spring, as well as sowing seed for beetroot and leafy vegetables, Costa visits a village for the over-fifty-fives whose residents have discovered a newfound passion for gardening, thanks to an enthusiastic neighbour and Jane is talking about how to select a good lemon tree at nurseries, and shows how to plant a young tree to ensure it gets the best start possible. Also in this episode Jerry shows what it takes to overcome the challenges for productive gardeners in the subtropics while Josh plants out a garden bed filled with low water use and low maintenance succulents.
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September 21, 2013 September 20th 2013.
Monty Don tackles autumn lawn maintenance tasks before planting a series of bulbs in readiness for next spring while Carol Klein explores burnets – meadow plants that are becoming increasingly popular. Plus the team meets a man who has a particular fascination with the echinacea and Monty finds wildflowers useful as he attempts to plant up the steep banks of his new meadow mound.
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September 16, 2013 John meets Joost Bakker, visionary entrepreneur who is leading the way towards a zero-waste future, Costa is in Port Kembla visiting a primary school that is teaching kids to grow food based on sustainable and ecological principals, and Sophie visits Port Augusta to explore a world first greenhouse project, which is growing vegetables by harnessing the power of the sun and sea. Also, Costa heads to a senior school in Port Kembla to check out their vegetable garden, which is used by students as a central plank in their curriculum and as a way of helping some with social re-engagement while Jerry is in New South Wales to explore an environmental project on a grand scale that aims to assess what effect increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 will have on our trees and natural ecosystems.
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September 14, 2013 September 13th 2013.
As part of BBC2's Harvest, Gardeners' World celebrates the bounty our gardens have to offer at this time of year.
Carol Klein is out and about gathering a wild blackberry harvest from the hedgerows and discovering a surprising number of more domesticated brambles that we can grow in our gardens. We join a champion vegetable grower in Yorkshire as he prepares for the biggest show of the season and Monty Don is at Longmeadow enjoying the fruits of his labours.
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September 12, 2013 Griff Rhys Jones sets out to restore his 200-year-old farmhouse in the rolling Pembrokeshire countryside. Built in 1820, the dilapidated farm is in need of far more than a lick of paint, and with significant emotional and financial investments being put into the project, it will require even more work than Griff and his team had anticipated to bring this ruined structure back to life.
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September 3, 2013 August 31st 2013.
Angus is experimenting with some alternative sources of nutrition for native plants, Sophie visits a friend growing heirloom vegetables, and gets some tips on some unusual varieties and John visits a native plant nursery to find some plants that are suitable for a range of common problem spots. Also, Costa visits Josh who shows him around a vibrant urban orchard and habitat garden in the middle of the city while is in Far North Queensland visiting a quirky rainforest garden and theme park built on a grand scale in the 1930s by a Catalan immigrant.
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August 31, 2013 August 30th 2013.
As August draws to a close, Monty Don turns his attention to autumn and tackles that perennial problem of what to grow in the shade of a tree or shrub. He also takes cuttings of his favourite pelargoniums – an essential task at this time of year. Carol Klein takes a closer look at that late summer jewel, the crocosmia, and we meet a gardener in Derbyshire who has spent a lifetime growing and showing gladioli.
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August 27, 2013 Costa meets a student who is embarking on a career in horticulture while finishing high school, Josh plants out his garden with a variety of plants for his kids to enjoy and engage with while John visits the Burnley Gardens with an old friend to explore the way gardening has changed over the last century. Also, Sophie shows how to build and maintain a three-bay composting system and Jane explores a whimsical garden that is bursting with imaginative plantings and playful landscaping.
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