Beechgrove: Episode 25 (S44EP25 BBC Scotland Thursday 22 September 2022)

For gardeners of all skill levels, Brian and Carole provide lots of excellent advice and evaluate this summer’s results. The two check on the range of planting that was installed to replace a diseased conifer that was removed earlier in the series and return to the area between the alpine and heather borders that they worked on earlier in the year.

George offers some excellent advice on what to do with used tomato growbags as he looks back on his summer from his garden and allotment in Joppa. A visit to a Glasgow garden is also included as part of a UK-wide initiative to develop outdoor areas for the benefit of patients at NHS spinal injury centres. The Beechgrove’s Beechgrowers, a group of Scottish gardeners who have provided regular updates throughout the summer, are making their final stop.

Airdate: Thursday 22 September 2022 at 20:00 on BBC Scotland

Season 44 Episode 25

The Beechgrove Garden has been on air since 1978 and remains a firm favourite with audiences in Scotland. It consistently outperforms what is being screened by BBC Network in the same slot. At the heart of the series is a 2.5 acre home garden, situated on a cold, inhospitable slope west of Aberdeen, deliberately chosen to reflect Scotland’s harsher climate. Horticultural advice in gardening magazines and on UK network gardening programmes is rarely suitable for most of the UK outside the South East of England. Beechgrove shares with its viewers the weekly challenge to work with the Scottish conditions to produce maximum yield of as many varieties as possible of fruit, flowers and vegetables.