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February 18, 2011 Hostile pressures on the countryside mean that the garden has become more important. If we were to put all the gardens in the UK together it would make the largest refuge in this country for wildlife. This would make a place for plants, animals and insects, where they can hide, where they can breed.
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February 16, 2011 Stephen Ryan meets a couple in their beautiful sprawling suburban garden, which has been a joy to them for more than three decades, but also speaks of families who worked and loved it in the past. Jerry Coleby-Williams shows how he makes his cucumbers, zucchini and pumpkin plants fruit more successfully by giving nature a bit of a helping hand in the vegetable patch, Sophie Thomson highlights the rules for nurturing citrus trees and protecting them from disease and pests.
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February 9, 2011 Wearing period clothes and using only the materials that would have been available in 1885, historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn are going back in time to relive the day-to-day life of the Victorian farmer.
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February 1, 2011 Air date 29nd Jan 2011. Season Final.
Sophie Thomson visits a bustling spring garden to show her favourite plants for colour and cut flowers. Leonie Norrington chats to Stephanie Alexander at the launch of The Kitchen Garden Foundation in The Top End to discuss how they are growing a new generation of gardeners, and Clarence Slockee visits the Mt Annan Botanic Garden about 60 km south west of Sydney to find out about a unique piece of remnant woodland and what they are doing to preserve it.
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January 31, 2011 Organic Gardening Made Easy is a new instructional film by master gardener, Lee O'Hara. Easy to follow, step by step instructions that will enable you to quickly, easily and economically create and sustain your own organic home garden - whether you have 3 square feet or several acres of garden space to start from.
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January 24, 2011 Air date 22nd Jan 2011.
Colin Campbell explains some of the best practical gardening tips he's picked up over his long career, all tried and tested by generations of gardeners, Angus Stewart visits a pre-school garden in Sydney designed to connect the kids with their local plants and animals, and the food that ends up on the table and John Patrick gives tips on where to position plants in a garden bed and visits a garden to look at some examples.
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January 21, 2011 Archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman arrive at Morwellham Quay in Devon - once home to one of the busiest ports in Britain. For the next twelve months they will be attempting to bring it back to life as it was in its Edwardian heyday.
(This is a repack of previously published individual articles).
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January 16, 2011 This video teaches you everything you need to know about natural lawn care, including pest control, lawn maintenance, water management, soil requirements, planting and composting, as well as the tools you will need to get started. Pesticides are out, and hand picking is in. Your neighbors will be envious of your green and healthy lawn and blooming garden!
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January 11, 2011 38x21 5th August 05
Sarah Raven meets a variety of people passionate about cultivating vegetables, from growers in Yorkshire's `rhubarb triangle' to Jersey Royal farmers. She dispels the myths about the competition world, in which produce may be giant but must also be edible, and asks the Chairman of the National Vegetable Society just what it takes to make a champion entry.
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January 9, 2011 Air date 9th Jan 2011.
Colin Campbell explores a garden where the owners have overcome Townsville's challenging dry tropical climate to create a paradise and Jerry Coleby-Williams is doing some maintenance on his fruit trees, pruning out citrus gall wasp, cleaning and spraying to prevent fungal attack and controlling the roots of the bananas.
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