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September 28, 2011 With the garden centres full of all sorts of bulbs, Monty gives his top tips on what to look for while he plants bulbs for late spring colour. Carol reviews her garden, which was planted entirely from seeds and cuttings and has looked glorious all summer long, while Joe plants climbers and shrubs for autumn colour in his family garden.
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September 25, 2011 Tino Carnevale checks in on a school garden he helped build a year ago to see their success and solve a few problems, Angus Stewart looks at a variety of methods for propagating herbs and shows which method is best for different types and John Patrick explores the gardens at The Heide Museum of Modern Art to look at changes in garden design over the years. Meanwhile Josh Byrne checks in on the family backyard and helps plant some herbs for the chooks, rejuvenate the lawn and mark the final layout of the pathways while Jane Edmanson visits The Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Alice Springs to see the incredible colour of the desert and its plants.
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September 24, 2011 Monty Don shows how to take cuttings from favourite roses to bulk up stock for free. He looks ahead to summer 2012 by planting foxgloves he's raised from seed, along with autumn onions for a bumper crop in June. Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage collecting seeds from her favourite flowers with a view to planting up a new border as cheaply as possible. And Rachel de Thame is at Hook End Farm in Berkshire admiring one gardener's wide variety of splendid roses growing in every corner of her garden.
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September 21, 2011 Aired Friday 8th September 2006.
Monty builds a slate seat and plants fragrant herbs to crush underfoot. Joe's planting up pots in the courtyard, while Carol is looking forward to spring by planting bulbs in the alpine garden. Continuing the theme of planting pots, Monty gives the definitive guide to mixing compost for containers.
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September 18, 2011 Aired Friday 1st September 2006.
It's been a long, hot summer and, with our self-imposed hosepipe ban, inevitably Berryfields has suffered. Monty, Carol and Joe take a close look at how drought has affected the garden.
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September 18, 2011 This week Clarence Slockee looks at some rare and threatened plants and explains how they're being protected, In the Veg patch its Potatoes: Seed vs Seedlings. Tino Carnevale also plants spring crops including red onion, garlic and lettuce and a range of traditional and unusual potato varieties.
Jane Edmanson visits comedian and musician Rusty Berther, from The Scared Weird Little Guys, to help him prepare for the competitive marrow growing season, and Jerry Coleby-Williams gets stuck into his succulents and cacti, doing some much needed maintenance before the hot weather arrives.
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September 16, 2011 This is a repack of previously published individual articles.
A 12 part series which was the predecessor to “The Edwardian Farm” and “The Victorian Farm”. It might well be subtitled “The Jacobean Farm”. The same archaeologists – Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman work without modern conveniences to try and turn theory into practice, rediscovering how things were done in the year 1620, with each episode following the tasks of a calendar month.
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To begin, the team use oxen to plough, sow seeds by hand, try to bake bread and prepare a Jacobean feast.
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September 13, 2011 Air Date: Friday 25th August 2006.
Monty, Joe, Rachel, Sarah and Carol visit the people of Sheffield for the GW Roadshow.
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September 11, 2011 Jerry Coleby-Williams is in his vegie garden harvesting spices, saving seed and planting early season crops celery, celeriac, lettuce and radish. Stephen Ryan updates the Vegie Guide - looking at what's good to plant in vegie gardens, around the country and Sophie Thomson looks at some of the weird and wonderful plants at The Botanic Gardens of Adelaide.
Also, Jane Edmanson returns to see how novice gardener and comedian Dave Lawson has got along with his garden since her last visit, while Tim Carnevale visits one of Hobart's oldest gardens to explore its plant collection and history.
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September 10, 2011 With bees in mind, Monty Don plans for spring by planting some early nectar sources for them, using bulbs which flower early in the year, namely crocus and winter aconites. He also selects some asters which will not only give colour for autumn but will also help bees build up their nectar reserves to help them survive the winter. Carol Klein is in Norfolk at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve taking a look at the borders designed by the renowned plantsman Piet Oudulf. She finds out how he has combined over 100 different types of perennials and over 20 types of grasses to produce some stunning combinations which are also good for the insect population.
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