Gardeners' Corner
Summary: Get all the gardening advice you need for every month of the year from the experts in our Gardeners’ Corner download. Presenter Cherrie McIlwaine and her panel of experts answer your queries from their many years of experience. This podcast is packed with gardening hints and tips in a compact thirty minute episode.
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This week Cherrie McIlwaine and Brendan Little join Tracey Hamilton in her garden at Ringdufferin on Strangford Lough, in the company of her father, Paddy Mackie.
This week it's vegetable growing in Colin Glen, an appeal for guerilla gardeners in Skegoniel and Glendore and we're back in Rathfriland with Jenny Rush who's making a new herb garden with help from Barbara Pilcher
Cherrie McIlwaine is joined by Jim Bradley and Maurice Parkinson on the Gardeners' Corner roadshow at Ballyclare Golf Club to give advice and answer members' gardening problems.
This week Cherrie McIlwaine meets Matt McCooke to find out how to grow apple trees. Keith Crawford plants a walnut tree with his two girls, Miranda and Abigail. Barbara Pilcher makes pumpkin soup from her favourite home-grown variety, Crown Prince, while the plotters at Annadale Allotments reveal the secrets of great fruit and veg growing.
This week we're in phone-in mode with Jim Bradley and Brendan Little in studio to take your calls and answer your gardening queries...
This week we're back in Rathfriland where Jenny Rush is creating a new herb garden and we return to Camlough and Kathleen and Finbar O'Brien's garden.
This week Cherrie McIlwaine takes two garden walks to enjoy autumn colour and discuss this important season for gardeners. First, Cherrie travels to Rowallane in Saintfield where she is accompanied on an autumn walk by head gardener, Averil Milligan. Then she joins Reg Maxwell in the grounds of Belfast Castle, underneath Cavehill.
This week it's off to Enniskillen Library where Brendan Little and Keith Crawford join Cherrie for a Gardeners' Corner roadshow...
This week Cherrie McIlwaine is joined by Brendan Little and Keith Crawford as they answer questions from members of Fermanagh Gardening Society at their meeting in Enniskillen Library.
The September phone-in with Jim Bradley and Brendan Little answering your queries
This week we're in Holywood where a new campus garden is helping students develop their gardening skills. From there it's to the Ring of Gullion just outside Camlough where the O'Brien family are all set to create a brand new garden...
This week Cherrie visits two very different garden. The first, which started only a year ago, is an established fruit and vegetable garden in Holywood. It is the perfect place for horticultural students to learn how to grow produce. The second, a country garden, is yet to be created by owners, Kathleen and Finbar O'Brien under the tutelage of Maurice Parkinson. Over the next year or so he will help them create the garden of their dreams.
This week we're in Cookstown to find out about an enterprising community garden, it's herb gardening in Rathfriland with keen cook Jenny Rush, and Phil Rollinson gives us some ideas for early autumn planting...