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00:14Hello and welcome to Beech Rove Garden, on the programme from our plot just outside Aberdeen,
00:20growing for a summer of colour. Coming up, Kirsty has a different way of planting sweet peas,
00:33revealing this year's dahlias in a garden in Nairn, what summer bulbs to plant now for great
00:39displays, and I'm back in the veg plot for Back to Basics.
00:47But first, we're only at May, but already there's a handful of plants that have already done their
00:52business for the year, giving us a wonderful floral display over the winter months, just when we're
00:57needing it most. So we've got the likes of this viburnum here, born in a tense dawn, beautiful
01:03white pinky flowers that have a scent that just fill up your whole garden. But the reason they're
01:07looking so good just now is because they flowered on wood that was produced last year. So for us to
01:13keep this plant going, for to keep it looking good and for flowering again next winter, we need to do
01:18a bit of pruning just now. Now before you do any pruning, you need to take a step back and
01:24decide
01:24just exactly what you're trying to create. I'm looking here and all I can see is a whole load
01:29of bare stems. I don't want to see that. I want to see something that's clothed with foliage from the
01:33ground all the way to the top. And again, that's going to be full of flowers next year for me
01:37as
01:37well. At the moment, if you follow this plant all the way up, all you can see is the growth
01:42at the very
01:43top of the plant. And that's where the flowers are going to be next year. I'm going to have a
01:46crooked
01:47neck trying to enjoy this plant next year. So now's the time to get in and do a wee bit
01:51of work.
01:53The first thing you do with any sort of pruning job, we're going to look out for some dead and
01:58diseased
01:58material, anything that's crossing. So here's a dead item just now. So just give that
02:04a wee nip. And this is a classic example of what we're looking to remove. If I remove this,
02:10it's going to encourage new shoots from the very base of the plant. Look how old it is. You can
02:15tell
02:15by the thickness of the stem and the different colour compared with the likes of this younger one
02:20here. This is exactly the kind of thing that we're looking for. Now it's quite weighty. I'm already at
02:26two metres in height. So I reckon this is about four metres. What we want to do is take this
02:31maybe
02:31off in a couple of stages. So I'm going to take the weight off the plant. I'll just do a
02:36wee undercut.
02:38And then I can go in above.
02:44There we go.
02:47And now we've got a good view of what we're looking at here. But this is something I want to
02:52point out.
02:52So we've got a shoot that's grown about three quarters of the way up the stem. Now most people
02:57will just stop there thinking, well, here's my safety net. I've got a bit of growth growing.
03:02This is where I'm going to stop. But if you think about it, I'm wanting this plant to be about
03:06two
03:07metres tall. It's already one and a half metres. So I'm just keeping the problem going. So you've got to
03:13be brave and get all the way down to the ground. So as I say, get in.
03:24So there we go. Quite happy with that cut. I must admit, I probably would have liked to have got
03:29it a
03:29wee bitty lower to the ground. But I've got so much going on in here that no room to get
03:34my saw in. So
03:34in the subsequent years, I'll come back and I'll make sure I tidy that up. And we don't want to
03:39obliterate the whole plant. We want to be careful. So don't take any more than a quarter out. So one
03:44and four. So I'm looking around and this one here has maybe been pruned too high up. So I'll take
03:49that one off there and then maybe focus on another one or two inside. So this is what we'd call
03:54renewal
03:55pruning. And we do that on an established plant. But what do you do with a young plant and a
04:00bit of
04:00formative pruning? That's what we're going to have a wee look at now.
04:15Forsythia is another one of those late winter, early spring flowering shrubs that we want to do a
04:20bit of work on it this time of year. Now this plant's only been in the ground for a couple
04:24of years. Now we
04:25don't want to go as crazy with the established plant taking out one and four because we're still
04:30wanting the root system to develop to make sure this plant can grow to its best. But doing a few
04:35little cuts just now, maybe taking out some of this old wood and then looking at a stem like this
04:42which
04:42has grown into this one and it's actually rubbing against a younger stem that I suspect will give us
04:48some flowering shoots next year. If we take them out just now that's going to encourage those new shoots
04:54and we're going to have a lovely shaped plant which is just exactly what we want. Now these are the
04:59plants that have flowered we want to do a bit of work on but also look out for Philadelphia's
05:04Vigila over the coming weeks and make sure you do a bit of work on them too.
05:17So traditionally we always grow sweet peas here at Beech Grove and every year they're planted out
05:23into archways or obelisks outside but this year I want to try something different and that's growing
05:28dwarf variety sweet peas in hanging baskets. Now this is something I've never done before but you
05:35should be able to have sweet peas that get to 30 to 40 centimeters in height then just spill out
05:40over
05:40the hanging basket will provide that lovely scent and also nice cut flowers. It's perfect if you've
05:46only got a small space or say a balcony garden. So what we've got is three different varieties to try
05:53Cupid, Sweetie Mix and Bijou. So they're going to be lovely purples and pinks and a nice combination of
06:01scented sweet peas. Now we've got a few examples of hanging baskets here. So this one is made out of
06:07plastic and you'd be able to use it year after year. Same with this metal wired one. What you then
06:13want
06:13to do is to line your hanging basket. So we did scarify the lawn here at Beech Grove a few
06:18weeks ago so we're
06:19going to use that moss and just line the basket with this one. You can also get a sheep wool
06:25liner but
06:26this one is actually a coir liner so it's made from coconut husks and it just goes into the basket
06:32and both of these are sustainable and will rot down. I've also got a hanging basket pulley as that allows
06:39you to lower your hanging basket and water it at the right height so no need to go up a
06:43ladder or anything.
06:44So for potting mix we've got our own leaf mold and multi-purpose peat free compost. We're then going
06:52to add a slow release fertilizer into the mix as sweet peas are super hungry. So I'm just going to
06:59fill
07:00the hanging baskets up.
07:05And the sweet peas have been grown in these root trainers. They would have been started as seed in
07:10the greenhouse at about February-March time and you'll see they've got these lovely new fleshy white
07:17roots. So we're going to plant three different types into three baskets and then hang them outside
07:22our potting shed. So you just gently take them out of the root trainers and you'll see the lovely long
07:31roots and then into the hanging basket and just put them in. You could use a long trowel like that
07:38as that will allow you to put these long roots in.
07:43Just put maybe one more in there and they're going to fill this whole hanging basket
07:50and spill out over them and be lovely and scented too.
07:53So that's them now all planted into the basket.
07:57And we will give them a liquid seaweed feed through the summer and keep them well watered and fed.
08:02And then we'll have these lovely scented sweet peas in hanging baskets this summer.
08:17This year I'm working my way through a beginner's guide to productive gardening.
08:21So now it's time to see what needs done in the veg plot in Back to Basics.
08:27Now having started off our veg in the cold grey days at the end of March,
08:32we're now with the sun's out and we're at that point where we're going to get everything we want
08:36to eat over the coming weeks and months into the soil, into the ground, into the veg plot.
08:41Now we started off already. We've got our tatties in the ground.
08:45They were grown quite nicely but as you can see they're not looking so good just now.
08:48They've got a touch of brown about them and that's because they've been hit by a bit of frost.
08:53Now not to worry too much, it's not going to kill them so we didn't need to dig them out,
08:57but it is going to slow them down that wee bit. But it just shows the importance of this horticultural
09:03fleece.
09:04It's quite a cold spring up here. We're definitely getting these sort of colder nights,
09:08a touch of frost and it's amazing what this can do. So look at the forecast at night.
09:13If you see it's going to be cold, it's not going to do any harm to run out and cover
09:17your crops with this.
09:19Now the last time I was up here we actually sowed some carrots, so I'm pleased the benefits of the
09:24fleece is shown because you can see the germination is coming through and we'll be back up here again
09:29in a few weeks time for the next stage of these. But also when we were here the last time
09:34I was
09:34showing you the benefits of a cloche. I'd been growing some lettuce in the glass houses. We needed
09:39to get them out, they were just sitting in there taking up space. We got them in the ground but
09:43it
09:43was still that wee bitty cold. You can see the cloche now, it's doing its job. The lettuce are growing
09:49away
09:49happily as anything. The cloche has got opened at both ends so the cold air is still getting through
09:54but it does give that wee bit of protection at night. But already we're nibbling away,
09:59taking some picks of lettuce off there. And then the onions, look at them, they're coming on a treat.
10:04You can definitely tell that they've got their roots into the ground now and they're growing away
10:07quite the thing. And this is a good chance to show you the importance of plant spacing. So we wanted
10:12to make sure there was enough room between the plants just so we could get the whole through.
10:17The last thing we want is weeds because they're going to compete with the plant for moisture
10:22and we want our plants to grow quite the thing. So always make sure there's enough room for your
10:26hole to get through and that'll just save you a wee bit of time. Now if we were to plant
10:32our crops in
10:33the same soil, in the same spot year after year we run the risk of building up pests and diseases
10:38which
10:39will could ultimately ruin our vegetables. So we want to do this thing called crop rotation and part of
10:44that means we have to put our plants into certain groups. So we've got our others. That's a
10:48miscellaneous group. That's the likes of your onions, your lettuce. We've even got some herbs in there.
10:53Your roots, they're pretty self-explanatory. Potatoes, carrots, parsnips. Then we've got our brassicas.
10:59So that's your leafy crops. Brussels sprouts, cabbages, kale. And we've got them grown in amongst this
11:05caged area. There's two reasons for we want to do that. The first one, pigeons love the foliage. So they'll
11:11be
11:12straight in there if they get the opportunity. But also very shortly you're going to start to see this
11:16little white butterfly going around. The cabbage white it's called. Now if it gets in there and lays
11:22eggs in amongst the plants, then the resulting caterpillars will devour the crop as well. So
11:27that helps keep those two pests out the road so we can enjoy our Brussels sprouts at Christmas.
11:32And then the last group that we're going to focus on today is legumes. So that's your peas and your
11:38beans. Now they need a structure to grow up. So we've got a bamboo cane here but also you could
11:43go for a rustic look of maybe some hazel rods. Now these are for the climbing beans. Now when you
11:49want to do these, a wee trick for you is just to plant on the inside of the cane. Now
11:55normally I think
11:56our instinct would be to go on the outside. This is a variety called cobra. It's a lovely climbing bean.
12:00You can also get your french beans with the long thin fingers. But what you want to do is to
12:05pop your
12:06bean just on the inside. When that starts to grow, it'll automatically find the cane itself, twine its
12:12way up to the top of the pole for you. Nice and easy. However, your peas, they need a wee
12:18bit of more
12:19help. So they're just the same as your sweet peas. They have tendrils and they're going to cling onto
12:23this netting for support. Get it in first. So with all the veg I grow, I want to grow those
12:28that I can rely
12:30on because I want to make sure I'm feeding my stomach and my family every year. So I always
12:34grow one variety that I know is tried and tested. It's going to do well in the Scottish climate.
12:38But I like to push the new varieties as well because there's so many out there I'm scared
12:42I'm missing out on something. So the first one we've got is Grayness. It's a heritage variety.
12:47It'll do me well. We've got a new one out here now. Flover. It's a petit pois. It's got some
12:53beautiful,
12:53sweet flavour. So I'm looking forward to trying that one. And then the last one that I've got
12:58grown. This is Snack Hero. And this is one of those ones where it looks like a bean but it
13:03tastes
13:04like a pea. So I'm really interested to see what that one looks like. I've got my draw hole back
13:08again. Always check the back of the seed packet for depth and spacing. I'm going to come in just where
13:15my netting is and just draw the soil back ever so gently. And as you can see I've already got
13:22a row in.
13:24But in between I'm just going to stagger them. And by doing that when the plant grows it means
13:32they've got equal spacing to share going up the netting there. Now as you can see we've already
13:38made a sown here and that's part of successional sown. These were sown three weeks ago so they're
13:43going to grow quite the thing. But this week we're now going to do a second sown. So while we're
13:48eating
13:48one group the second group will still be growing and that means I can be eaten for a lot longer.
13:53But a couple of things we need to look out for. As you can see from this crop there's a
13:58few gaps.
13:59Now there's every chance that was some mice that got the peas before they even had a chance to grow.
14:03They absolutely love them. And just the same with the brassicas. Watch out for pigeons because
14:09they'll go for the foliage. So stick over a wee bit of netting and once that you should be laughing.
14:15Okay, so now it's time to go and visit a garden on the Morrie Firth.
14:27Mari Reid grew up in the mountains of Romania surrounded by wildflower meadows and woodland plants
14:34and that love of naturalistic planting has followed her all the way to the north of Scotland.
14:39She uses a great method of developing a border that avoids all the heavy speed work.
14:47I started developing this area of the garden that used to be a paddock.
14:51I made new beds using a no-dig method and I actually used the grass clippings that we cut from
15:00the paddock by just mulching it on top of the grass and that stops the grass to grow and a
15:07few months
15:07later I don't think I waited that long because I'm so impatient when it comes to gardening. I started
15:12planting hardy annuals and dahlias and anything that I could think of that I grew from seed.
15:18And as you can see it's starting to look quite pretty in my opinion. I added a lot of tulips
15:24in the
15:25autumn and some daffodils and some alliums and they're all coming into flower really lovely just now
15:29alongside the forgive me not and honesty which I think a garden shouldn't be without because they
15:36bring out so much colour and pollen for the early pollinators and yeah it's looking good for this time
15:59a year it's a time of year when I have to look at my dahlias they need some care at
16:05the moment I have
16:06dahlias in the garden that I don't lift. I discovered in the last four or five years of growing dahlias
16:13that I can leave them in the ground and I use a pot like a big plastic pot and I
16:20fill it with straw
16:22and then once the frost kills your dahlias in the autumn I just take the pot and put it on
16:27top of
16:28the dahlias like so and that keeps the frost away from the plant but it also keeps the rain away
16:36from
16:37the tubers because they don't like the frost and they don't like the wet. So basically I'm just going to
16:42lift this now put it to the side and have a check to see if the dahlias is showing any
16:48signs of growth
16:49and here we are you can just see the shoots so you can't leave them much longer because they're already
16:56starting to grow so it's a perfect time of year to uncover them and let them see the light and
17:02they will
17:03grow away happy. So this is how I do the dahlias that I have growing in the borders but I
17:09have another
17:09area of the garden where I only have dahlias and I use a different method of covering them.
17:23So these are the beds where I grow my dahlias for cut flowers and I use this plastic I put
17:29on top of
17:29the dahlias and then on top of the plastic I put leaf mold, straw, material that I cut from the
17:37main
17:37garden you know all the vegetation from the plants. The more the better because the bigger the mulch is the
17:42better the insulation will be and now it's time to uncover them and see if they overwinter well.
17:49I mean straight away I can see here a tuber that's starting to grow and look at that we can
17:56see the
17:57young shoots of the dahlias coming so it's definitely time to uncover them because they're starting to grow.
18:11I'm here in the west side of the house and I have a shrub salvia that needs pruned now all
18:18the risk of
18:19frost has passed so the reason why you don't prune them until spring is because they are quite not very
18:25hardy and the top growth protects the lower shoots and now you can see that they're already starting
18:31to shoot from lower down so I want to prune all these dead branches and prune to a frame of
18:36about
18:3620 to 30 centimeters above ground and then I will maybe do some fertilizing with fish blood and bone
18:42or chicken pellets to give it a little bit of help to get it going for the season. So I've
18:48got some
18:48secateurs here and I'm going to start by removing all the dead branches like so to where you see nice
18:56healthy shoots sometimes you prune some of the shoots as well. You can actually take some cuttings
19:02with those bits and I'll show you in a minute how I do the cuttings as well from the bits
19:06that I cut off.
19:07You can see this one has green shoots further up but it's also got lots of green shoots coming from
19:11lower down so I want the plant to be shorter and bushier from the bottom so I cut this away.
19:18They're a lovely plant they flower all summer long all the way until October November so it's a good
19:24plant to have in your garden if you have an area where there's a little bit shelter from harsh winds
19:29and harsh winter months so this area of our garden here in the west side of the house is quite
19:35protected
19:35from the hedge and the wall of the house. These branches here have died back quite a bit but I
19:41see
19:41lots of nice shoots here further down in the crown of the plant
19:46and we are left with a nice frame lots of nice healthy shoots coming and it's ready for a good
19:52summer I hope lots of flowers for the cuttings basically just pull them off the main stem remove
20:01the lower leaves like so I got some rooting powder here I'm just going to dip them into the rooting
20:09powder I got a potting compost here I use a mix of vermiculite with multipurpose compost about half of
20:18each I mix them into the pot so I'm just going to make a little hole with my finger put
20:24the cutting in
20:25press down a little bit because shrub salvias are a tender plant it's a good practice to take cuttings
20:33because if a plant in the garden dies and you have a few cuttings and you maybe plant them in
20:38other areas
20:38of the garden you have back up and then I just go with the water and this is I use
20:44for cuttings
20:46every day at least three or four times a day and I go with the mister over them because this
20:50it's very important to keep them hydrated so it does take a little bit of effort from our part but
20:57it's very rewarding when we succeed and then I'll go and put it in my greenhouse on a bench which
21:02is
21:02shady so that's the shrub salvia pruned cuttings taken and it's ready now for the new season ahead
21:10and hope these cuttings I'll put them somewhere in a greenhouse shaded and hopefully they will take
21:15and then I'll have some insurance for years to come that I won't lose this plant
21:29so this time of year and going into summer is the best time to propagate your scented pelargoniums now
21:35scented pelargoniums they're not hardy so they do need to be in a greenhouse or your house or a
21:40conservatory they have lovely scented leaves so I have some at home that smell of lemon citrus
21:47roses and even cucumber so I've got three different varieties here today so this one is
21:53floral pleno this is ashby with lovely pink flowers and then this much more lacy foliaged kind of silver
22:00in colour and smells just amazing but small flowers is called southern wood so they do root very easily
22:08from cutting so it's a great way to build them up but another job to do at this time of
22:13year is to
22:14take the flower heads off as that will promote more flowers in the summer so I'm just going to nip
22:19this one off and when you're taking the cuttings you want to be taking them off a stem that doesn't
22:25really have any flowers or flower buds on them so we're going to go for this one down here and
22:31cut
22:32just below a node so that is where the greatest amount of hormone is that will promote rooting
22:41and then we're going to take the lower leaves off as that helps reduce transpiration because you don't
22:47want your cuttings to dry out and there you have a perfect pelargonium cutting so what we've got here
22:55is square pots and we've filled them with multi-purpose peat-free compost and then we've added
23:01perlite this white sort of pellet into it and that helps with aeration and drainage as you don't want
23:08your cuttings to sit in really heavy soil as that will restrict root growth we'll then put the cuttings
23:15around the corners of the pot as this will help drainage and it will also allow the roots to come
23:22off
23:22hit the edge of the pot and form more roots so you just need a debor or even a pencil
23:28at home
23:28and just create these holes around the pot and then just gently squeeze the cutting into the corner
23:35of the pot and firm around it now most cuttings you might want to cover with a bag or a
23:40little cloche
23:41but pelargoniums root so easily but the good thing to do is to just water them in and you want
23:47to place
23:48that cutting out of direct sunlight in a greenhouse or a windowsill and within six to eight weeks
23:54you'll have new roots and you'll be able to pot them on and before you know it you'll have a
23:58lovely collection of scented pelargoniums
24:12well kirstie as we said earlier this program's all about summer color and you can't beat bulbs they're not
24:18just for spring are they that's totally true you can get a vast array of beautiful flowers all summer
24:24long from bulbs and we're going to create this bed into a lovely cut flower area just for summer bulbs
24:29so they're going to give us a huge range of flowers through the summer so that one that you're planting
24:35now is noreen baudenii comes from south africa and has lovely pink flowers in september and october so
24:42right at the end of the season just when you're needing it i've got this one at home i've got
24:46it up
24:46against the wall of the house you know when it's a wee bit of dryer you tried any of the
24:50other varieties
24:51i find some of the other cultivars for me are not hardy enough whereas that one can cope right
24:56down to like minus 15. it just needs free draining soil so if you're on the west part of the
25:01country
25:01it might struggle if you notice i've not planted it deeply it's just got the neck and even the shoulders
25:07poking above the ground you plant it too deep it might affect the flower any next up what we got
25:13next is eromurus so that's going to get to about a meter 1.5 tall you might have to stake
25:20this
25:20also known as foxtail lily it's got kind of amazing spidery roots um and it is recommended
25:27to soak these bulbs in water for two to three hours before planting so that's what we've been
25:33doing with this one just rehydrates them puts a bit of life back into them and they love free draining
25:39soil so you do not want this one to get too wet so what we're going to add into this
25:44planting hole is
25:45a bit of grit so i'm going to put that at the bottom eh just so it's sitting on there
25:49it's like yeah we don't want it too wet for them yep we don't want them rotting
25:52no not at all and this is about 15 centimeters deep and look yeah weird spidery sort of roots
25:59so there we go there's the growing point so we know he's quite happy just place him on there
26:05that looks good perfect good idea though because that's under there and it doesn't like competition
26:11it doesn't like root disturbance doesn't like getting moved no get a garden cane so when you're
26:16coming out and keeping this area tidy you know exactly where it is and you might want to stake that
26:20later on another cut flower that might need staking is this one gladioli so this is gladiolus wine and
26:28roses quite a name perfect for you is that right good combination this is a lovely pink and it's just
26:35a traditional cut flower we've always seen in cut flower gardens and is used you know about this height
26:42in vases and just big blousy flowers there's something about old kitchen gardens or wall gardens
26:46victorian times and you just see all the gladioli lined out in that cut flower plot as you're saying
26:51but do you know what i think they're making a bit of a comeback there's some cracking varieties out
26:55there these days blousy showy yes so many colors now line green purple maroon pink white maybe not
27:02all for a wedding bouquet if you're doing cut flowers here but anything sort of to suit you and
27:08the great thing is you can grow them in succession can't you yeah that's right so a wee bit late
27:13now
27:14not too late to actually plant some but you could have started putting them in the ground what end
27:17of april beginning of may a few weeks later and then the last ones round about the start of june
27:22take
27:22about 12 weeks to get from planting to flowering so now's the time to get them in i've just planted
27:28them in a row quite close together and about five centimeters deep and then at the end here i've got
27:34an
27:34asiatic lily so lily bulbs are classic in the summer time great in july scented this one is white
27:42and is named kent sometimes the pollen you've got to watch out for that yeah i don't know why i'm
27:47thinking of wedding dresses today but don't want to get that stain on the wedding dress no but you can
27:51just cut the anters off can't you yeah that'll be lovely and that that's going to give us a great
27:57range of bulbs this summer yeah gonna look stunning
28:08well that's all we've got time for this week ruf's going to be joining me next week if you've
28:13only got a small space to garden in she's going to be up in her vertical plot and we'll be
28:18in troon
28:18looking at the best bonsai in the country remember you can catch up with the whole series so far on
28:24the
28:24bbc iplayer whatever you want well from the two of us it's bye for now
28:54you
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