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Community Gardening, Redcurrants and Citrus Trees

The joy of creating an urban community croft, cooking with redcurrants, how to get mixed planting to work and tips for growing citrus trees.

Nicola Singleton and the team help you make the most of your growing space – whatever shape and size it comes in – and inspire you with a weekly seasonal recipe.

Today they’re off to Leith Links in Edinburgh to visit the Crops In Pots community garden.

Founder Evie Murray explains how the idea of the urban croft came about and the ways in which the local community have embraced the shared growing space.

Gardeners Tom and Katherine explain how they get mixed planting to work on the urban croft and why they like to encourage bees to the growing area.

In this week’s seasonal recipe, chef Carina Contini shows Gillian Russell how to make a redcurrant syrup, perfect for drizzling over a simple vanilla sponge … plus gardening tips for growing and cultivating redcurrants in your own garden.

Carole Baxter shows Helen Needham that it’s possible to grow your own citrus fruit, right here in Scotland.

Tom describes the idea behind their latest garden experiment – hot composting!

28 minutes

Redcurrant Drizzle Cake

Redcurrant Drizzle Cake

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  • Thu 4 Jul 2019 13:30
  • Sun 7 Jul 2019 07:30
  • Sun 5 Jul 2020 06:30