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May 1, 2012 13th November 2010
Its the last normal episode of the series, and Carol, Alice and Joe have some great ideas to bulk up next years borders - without breaking the bank. The team visit the autumn glory of Stourhead, to take a look at the biggest, smelliest flowering of the year.
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April 30, 2012 28th April 2012.
Costa shows us his fantastic compost recipe using ingredients donated by the community and takes a closer look at the millions of individual organisms in compost, showing us how to troubleshoot compost problems. Keen to grow mushrooms at home, Tino meets a mushroom farmer in Tasmania to get some ideas, while John discovers a beautiful garden in Melbourne that blends a formal garden design with the informality of surrounding bush.
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April 28, 2012 27th April 2012.
With plenty of advice and tips on how and what to plant in a pond, Rachel de Thame joins Monty at Longmeadow to give a helping hand. Monty also gets up to date with all the seasonal jobs in the Jewel garden, from sowing his collected opium poppy seed to trying out a method of growing lilies in plunge pots for bold summer colour. Carol follows the trail of one of spring's brightest plants to an allotment in South Yorkshire and a man who has amassed a national collection of Euphorbias there. Joe visits Charles Rutherfoord, architect and chair of the Society of Garden Designers to talk to him about the unique design of his own small garden. And the confectionary colours of Primulas come under the spotlight when we go to the RHS garden at Harlow Carr to find out tips for their successful cultivation.
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April 26, 2012 21st April 2012.
Colin visits a couple who have converted a series of awkward spaces into garden rooms. Sophie looks at a range of plants suited to dry climate gardens and Tino looks at some of his successful experiments in The Vegie Patch, and Costa makes the most of the sunniest spot on the verge by planting a Mediterranean herb maze.
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April 24, 2012 6th June 2009
Jerry-Coleby Williams takes steps to winter proof his Brisbane vegetable garden and plants some sub tropical winter crops - tomato, radish and beans. Sophie Thompson builds a no fuss compost bin, that almost anyone can make for little cost, and Stephen Ryan meets Melbourne's Royal Botanic Garden Director, Richard Barley, to discuss why weed control in the home garden is critical to the Australian environment and economy. Also, Colin Campbell explains how different nutrients affect plant growth and how to choose the right fertiliser for your plants.
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April 24, 2012 5th November 2010.
As the trees feel the effects of the autumn season, now is the time to gather leaves to make leaf mould - a soil conditioner better than anything money can buy. Toby plants tulips, ready for a riot of colour next spring, and plans ahead for an autumn harvest of nuts.
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April 21, 2012 20th April 2012
If you have a shady spot in your garden that is bereft of flowers, then Monty Don has some great suggestions of stalwarts which not only thrive in those tricky conditions but return year after year. On the veg plot, he also shares his tips on putting up a runner bean support. Carol Klein discovers our native lungwort, the pulmonaria, growing prolifically in the woodlands and verges of the New Forest, and meets a woman who has been growing them in her Hampshire garden for over 15 years, Joe Swift travels to an allotment site in West Yorkshire to visit a vegetable grower who, using the power of manure, is already harvesting an astonishingly early bounty of potatoes, and we meet a gardener whose Essex garden is full of summer colour, all down to his passion for lilies.
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April 15, 2012 14th April 2012.
Jerry meets a Vietnam vet who has converted a wasteland into a vibrant and productive garden for the local community and Costa installs a simple watering system to supply the growing verge garden. Jane visits a thriving market garden in Melbourne and meets the gardener who has farmed a piece of Melbourne's history for over 65 years, and Costa talks to a native plant expert to find out about the original landscape of the Bondi area and pick out some local species to plant on the verge. Also, Josh visits a large productive water plant nursery to see how plants keep ponds clean and healthy.
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April 14, 2012 13th April 2012.
This episode is packed with know-how about how to sow a seed and ideas about improving gardens this summer. Monty begins by explaining that, by sowing a few simple seeds, he has been able to stock the beds in his walled garden with summer colour. He also carries out some timely pruning of winter flowering shrubs to ensure plenty of flowers next spring. As a response to a keen gardener's cry for help, Carol gives a masterclass on successful seed sowing and shows what mix of compost to use, how to sow different sizes of seed, how to water them and what aftercare they need. Rachel returns to her group of novice gardeners as they get going on their cut flower patch and begin sowing the easiest of all seeds to grow - hardy annuals.
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April 7, 2012 7th April 2012.
Costa introduces his chickens and builds a mobile 'chook tractor' to enlist their help clearing the weeds on the verge. He and the community also plant the first crop of vegies in the new no-dig garden. Sophie meets a young gardener whose passion for plants has grown into a productive plan for his future, while Josh is getting stuck into some timely autumn maintenance including pruning, rejuvenating his little lawn and clearing some dead wood.
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