Episode 25

The Beechgrove team are starting to put the garden to bed for the winter.

Jim, Carole and Lesley demonstrate how to lift, pot up and store half-hardy perennials like osteospermums and stalwarts like begonias and dahlias. Tender plants, like Carole's tree fern, will be well wrapped up to protect them against the winter frosts. Greenhouses will be thoroughly cleaned and sterilised in preparation for next year's growing season.

Lesley is thinking forward to next spring and plants many different varieties of tulip to give lots of colour in the cutting garden.

Carole revisits a community garden that Beechgrove helped to start off in 2006. Since then the pupils of Breadalbane Academy and many volunteers have continued to develop and expand the educational opportunities in the community garden in Aberfeldy.

Recently it was the Apple Open Day at Pitmedden Garden, managed by the National Trust for Scotland. Jim and apple expert Willie Duncan enjoy the harvest and discover the history behind some of the more unusually named apples like Bloody Ploughman and Peasgood Nonsuch.