Episode 21

It’s the time of year when all the hard work earlier in the season begins to pay off. Carole Baxter is in one of Beechgrove Garden’s greenhouses to record how this year’s crop of tomatoes is measuring up. Along with Ruth Vichos, another crop that will be checked is this year’s planting of blight-resistant potatoes. It has been a damp summer, which can mean ideal conditions for the disease that can affect the potato plants - but will the varieties that are meant to be blight-resistant pay off this year? At Old Scone, Brian Cunningham looks at some newly planted apple trees and has some practical training advice on when is best to buy bare-root plants.