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October 18, 2019 Tino and his family have made their dream move to the country and it’s time for Tino to start the new family vegie patch from scratch, guest Presenter David Fripp takes us on a nursery tour to highlight his favourite foliage and to share his secrets on how to keep them thriving, and with a few pipes and a touch of maths, Josh shows how his home irrigation set up takes the stress out of watering.
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October 16, 2019 Monty Don gives tips on moving plants which are in the wrong place or have outgrown their space, shows how to store chillies and harvests the last of his tomatoes. Rachel de Thame heads to Longmeadow to talk to Monty about her return to health and to plant up pots for spring colour, while Nick Bailey travels to the Highlands in Scotland to find out about a project which is contributing to worldwide plant conservation.
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October 11, 2019 Millie shows an easy way to make your own planting pots from newspaper, Jane Edmanson shares her tips for making plant labels from pebbles, and using some recycled materials and a lot of style, Josh builds a beautiful garden seat that doubles as wildlife habitat.
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October 9, 2019 Monty Don celebrates the berries of the season and plants up potfuls of colour for spring. Frances Tophill meets gardeners on an allotment in Birmingham and harvests some unusual vegetables, while Adam Frost and Arit Anderson join forces to transform a front garden in Hampshire into a haven for the owners as well as wildlife. In Nottinghamshire, the programme meets an enthusiast who has amassed a collection of over 100 varieties of rhubarb and in Scotland a herb grower with over 600 different types.
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September 30, 2019 A look at the role that plants and gardening play in people's mental and physical well-being, exploring the idea that gardening is a good and positive pastime. Arit Anderson travels to a medical centre in Kent where gardening is prescribed by doctors, to help patients cope with long-term mental and physical problems. Adam Frost is at a community garden in Oxfordshire, created to provide ongoing support for sufferers of Parkinson's disease. Back at Longmeadow, Monty Don plants bulbs for spring and catches up on some seasonal tasks.
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September 30, 2019 Costa visits a perfectly proportioned garden where all the buildings and plants – and even some people – are scaled down to size, Peter makes an emotional visit to the living memorial at Queensland’s Enoggera Barracks and realises some of those named were his mates, and Tino finds out how scientists are benefiting from their indoor garden in the harsh conditions of Antarctica.
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September 23, 2019 Monty assesses the progress, successes and failures of his paradise garden, the new area of Longmeadow that he planted at the beginning of the year. He also makes a start on sowing a meadow of wildflowers in the orchard and gives advice on what to plant now in the vegetable garden. Frances Tophill travels to Glasgow to meet a gardener whose hands-off approach to his garden has reaped rewards for wildlife. Adam Frost visits a garden in Wales where a potentially unpromising and rocky site has been transformed, while Carol Klein seeks out the planting partners which are holding their own as the season moves into autumn. Mark Lane explores Nymans in West Sussex to find out how the garden is managed with sustainability at its heart, and in Somerset we find out about some unusual uses of plants from a gardener who has developed a forest garden.
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September 23, 2019 Sophie shares tips for looking after baby seedlings in the garden, Jerry meets a researcher who is discovering the hidden potential of many native tea trees to produce a highly prized medicinal honey, and Tino shares his favourite tips for stopping wildlife from getting to your fruit and veg before you do.
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September 23, 2019 Soil is the foundation of any garden, but not all soils are the same. Josh shares tips on how to get the most out of sandy soil in the garden. Jane shares her tips for taking cuttings from native plants, and Sophie shares the secrets of her success for getting maximum spring colour in the garden.
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September 18, 2019 It is a full hour of gardening from Longmeadow and Monty adds autumn perennials to his borders, shows how to take root cuttings and has plans for next year when he plants bulbs for spring colour. On her Kent allotment, Frances Tophill catches up on some seasonal sowing and invites a special guest to help her with a small building project. Nick Bailey is in Cambridge University Botanic Garden, where we find out how and why some plants produce their scent at the end of the day and we return to the wildlife garden of Kate Bradbury to find out about the lives of solitary bees.
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