It's spring, and Beechgrove Garden is for back another season of great growing advice. As usual, we have tips and handy hints to get the most from whatever you are cultivating this year - whether it’s pot plants or veg borders, trees or tomatoes, there will be help at hand from the Beechgrove team.

Brian and Lizzie launch a competition between Beechgrove presenters to see who can create the most successful vegetable plot of the season.

There is plenty of productive gardening at Beechgrove, with onions and tatties on the menu. George Anderson and Calum Clunie are potting the onions and shallots that Calum sowed in December, and Calum starts work on his plot for the Beechgrove veg-growing competition.

Gardening for wildlife, vegetables and small spaces are all covered in this episode. Brian plants shrubs in the garden for wildlife, choosing varieties that will encourage and help pollinators.

Gardeners are always looking ahead, and that’s exactly what Kirsty and Brian are doing at Beechgrove.

Gardening in a way that helps and reacts to the environment is the focus in this episode with Brian Cunningham and Lizzie Schofield.

With the gardening season progressing and the weather warming up, there is more planting out that can be done. Calum and George are at Beechgrove taking advantage of the changing season to plant out this year’s brassica crop. They also plant out some sweet peas, which are loved for their beautiful colours and scent.

Two months since the first episode of the year, and as most gardeners know, the work doesn't stop once something is planted. With that in mind, Ruth and Brian keep on top of care and maintenance on projects that were started earlier in the series.

In this episode, the focus is on scent and colour. Calum is at Beechgrove creating a gardening favourite: a lavender border. He lines either side of one of the garden’s paths with lavender plants, which will bring colour, scent and many pollinators to the area. Meanwhile, Brian demonstrates a layering technique as a way of propagating new plants from existing stock.

‘Flaming’ June has arrived, and Beechgrove enters a time of colour, scent and productivity. Lizzie Schofield explores these features as she revisits the herb garden she revitalised the previous summer.

George and Calum are focused on caring for and maintaining the plants in your garden. As the potatoes grow, the pair explain why and how to earth up the stalks to keep them healthy and productive. In the fruit cage, George demonstrates how to give the gooseberries a light summer prune and also demonstrates an important June job for anyone who is growing apples. The French beans are now ready to plant outside after being sown and germinating in the greenhouse, and Calum will be looking at a variety of hostas and how to keep this garden favourite free of slugs and snails.

Brian is in the Calendar Border, an area designed to have something of interest every month of the year. It is, however, looking a bit bare, so Brian will be planting geraniums to provide ground cover underneath the taller shrubs.

It’s still June, so there is no better time for Kirsty and Brian to visit Beechgrove Garden’s June Border, part of the plot designed and planted to look its best this month, though this year it may need some attention to get it looking its best for this time next year.

It’s July, and with a new month comes a new set of jobs to get stuck into at Beechgrove Garden, with harvesting on the agenda this week. On the shortest day of the year last year, Calum planted his shallots in pots and kept them in the greenhouse for the rest of the winter. They were planted out in spring and now, six months later, they are ready to be harvested and enjoyed.

It’s a productive time at Beechgrove Garden, with fruit and vegetables now ready to be picked, dug up and enjoyed. In the fruit cage, George is picking and tasting the first harvest of berries, and he’s also in his small space garden, collecting a variety of salad produce. Lizzie is working on her competition area; the winner of this year’s challenge is the presenter who cultivates the most attractive and productive plot, as judged by Carole. There is a visit to a garden in the heart of Glasgow city centre, some tips on how to propagate lavender plants, how to deal with unruly nasturtiums and the benefit of having some nettles in your garden

There’s something special about picking and enjoying home-grown produce, and that’s exactly what Ruth is doing at Beechgrove Garden as she checks on the strawberry patch started by Carole last year.

Trees and colourful borders get attention from Kirsty and Brian at Beechgrove Garden.

Although we are well into summer, the focus at Beechgrove is on all the things you can still sow and plant to make the most of your plot.

There is a serious problem at Beechgrove Garden, and Calum and George discuss what it is, the potential impact on the garden and how to deal with it. The problem is club root, a common soil-based disease that attacks the roots of many crops grown at Beechgrove. Currently it is in one area of the garden, so the team looks at ways to limit the disease's impact and how to stop it spreading.

It’s time to look ahead at Beechgrove Garden with a range of jobs that will deliver results into the next growing season.

Kirsty and Brian are in the Beechgrove greenhouse to taste-test the chillies that they first featured at the start of May. The chillies are now ready to be harvested, having spent the last three months under glass - but how hot will they be?

Tension is building as judging day approaches in the vegetable plot competition at Beechgrove. Carole will be picking a winner in a few weeks’ time, so Lizzie is reviewing what she needs to do in her plot to combat the effects of the recent dry spell.

There’s fruit, flowers and veg alongside some preparation for 2026 at Beechgrove Garden with Calum and George.

Lizzie and Brian are at Beechgrove to continue work on a project launched at the beginning of the series: creating a new garden in memory of presenter Jim McColl, who passed away last year.

The team are at Beechgrove planning ahead, with Kirsty and Brian already preparing for a vibrant and fragrant 2026.

All of the Beechgrove team are back in the garden and looking ahead. With a packed programme of seasonal jobs and expert advice, they advise on how to prepare your garden for autumn and winter, and set the stage for a flying start to the 2026 season.