NaN/100 votes#1 - Greenacre Begins
Season 42 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/2009
Toby and the team begin to transform a muddy field into the nation's new back garden.
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#2 - Dig In Campaign
Season 42 Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/2009
Toby and the team launch the Dig In campaign, encouraging the nation to grow its own grub.
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#3 - Twilight Garden
Season 42 Episode 3 - Aired 4/17/2009
Gardening magazine. Toby starts planting up the new 'twilight garden'.
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#4 - Toby Works on the Pond
Season 42 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/2009
Toby works on the pond and Carol reveals her final three proteges for gardening school.
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#5 - Malvern Show
Season 42 Episode 5 - Aired 5/8/2009
The team are at the 24th annual Spring Gardening Show in Malvern, Worcestershire.
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#6 - Root Cuttings
Season 42 Episode 6 - Aired 5/15/2009
Carol Klein's apprentices tackle root cuttings of garden favourites.
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#7 - Bee Friendly Garden
Season 42 Episode 7 - Aired 5/29/2009
Toby Buckland and Alys Fowler explore ways of making gardens more bee friendly.
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#8 - Plant Annual Plugs for Colour
Season 42 Episode 8 - Aired 6/5/2009
Toby Buckland plants out the annual plug plants ready for a summer of vibrant colour.
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#9 - Revisit Projects at Greenacre
Season 42 Episode 9 - Aired 6/19/2009
The team revisit many of the exciting new garden areas and ambitious projects at Greenacre.
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#10 - RHS Gardens at Rosemoor
Season 42 Episode 10 - Aired 7/10/2009
Toby visits the RHS garden at Rosemoor and gets tips on how they maintain the displays.
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#11 - RHS Gardens at Wisley
Season 42 Episode 11 - Aired 7/31/2009
Toby Buckland, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Alys Fowler give a few professional pointers to help you groom your garden to perfection. Toby finds himself up to his waist in water lilies at the RHS gardens at Wisley, and shows us what water plants we should be adding to our small ponds. He also gets inspiration for Greenacre from their glasshouse, which is packed with exotic plants. Carol focuses her students' attention on the care of seedlings, shows them how to pot on plants and shares her in-depth knowledge of the most flamboyant plant in the summer garden - the dahlia. Joe is back on his allotment catching up on his crops, and in Design Made Easy, he gives advice on the best colourful climbing plants for pergolas. Alys joins Toby at Greenacre and, as well as catching up on all the seasonal gardening tasks, sows oriental vegetables.
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#12 - RHS Gardens at Harlow Carr
Season 42 Episode 12 - Aired 8/7/2009
Toby Buckland visits the most northern Royal Horticultural Society garden at Harlow Carr.
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#13 - RHS Garden in Hyde Hall
Season 42 Episode 13 - Aired 8/14/2009
Toby Buckland visits the RHS garden at Hyde Hall in Essex, inspiring his own dry garden
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#14 - The Garden of Jessamine Cottage
Season 42 Episode 14 - Aired 8/21/2009
Owner Lynda Brown describes the garden of Jessamine Cottage past and present.
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#15 - A Seat From Sea-Washed Pebbles
Season 42 Episode 15 - Aired 8/28/2009
Toby Buckland returns to his coastal garden to create a seat made from sea washed pebbles.
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#16 - Best Plants in the Tropical Border
Season 42 Episode 16 - Aired 9/4/2009
September is the month when exotic plants reach their exuberant best, and in the tropical border at Greenacre Toby shows us which plants have performed. Carol's favourite plant this week is the fiery crocosmia and she shows us the best ones to grow to set our borders ablaze. Now is the perfect time to get new lawns growing, and Toby gives us the lowdown on laying turf while Alys chooses the less expensive option of growing a lawn from seed. And Radio One DJ Sarah Cox invites us into her own garden to see how she and her family have benefited from her first year of growing vegetables.
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#17 - Best Plants for Seed Harvesting
Season 42 Episode 17 - Aired 9/11/2009
As some plants complete their life cycle in the garden, it's the perfect opportunity for the gardener to reap a bountiful seed harvest. Toby Buckland explains which plants to go for and how to collect and store them. For Carol Klein, late summer is the time when some plants are looking their most spectacular and, at Glebe Cottage, it's the Japanese anemone which is shining out from her borders. Joe Swift offers design tips for seating areas, and Toby joins him to make one with a contemporary edge at Greenacre. Plus, the garden of the first of the five finalists in the BBC Gardener of the Year competition is revealed.
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#18 - Toby and Alys Plan for Spring
Season 42 Episode 18 - Aired 9/18/2009
Toby Buckland and Alys Fowler plan for spring
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#19 - It's Time to Plant Alliums
Season 42 Episode 19 - Aired 9/25/2009
The judges visit the third finalist in the BBC Gardener of the Year competition
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#20 - Toby Plants Japanese Azaleas
Season 42 Episode 20 - Aired 10/2/2009
Toby Buckland is inspired by the Orient and adds Japanese azaleas to Greenacre.
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#21 - Toby Plants a Black Currant
Season 42 Episode 21 - Aired 10/9/2009
Toby Buckland plants a hazel nut tree and harvests the seeds from annual flowers.
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#22 - Wrapping Plants Up for Winter
Season 42 Episode 22 - Aired 10/16/2009
Toby Buckland explains which plants need wrapping up for the winter.
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#23 - Getting the Garden Ready for Winter
Season 42 Episode 23 - Aired 10/23/2009
It's all systems go at Greenacre as the team get the garden ready for the winter ahead.
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The Best Episodes of Gardeners' World Season 42
Every episode of Gardeners' World Season 42 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gardeners' World Season 42!
Gardeners' World is a long-running BBC Television programme about gardening, first broadcast in 1968 and still running as of 2013. Its first episode was presented...
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Season 42 Ratings Summary
"Greenacre Begins" is the best rated episode of "Gardeners' World" season 42. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/3/2009. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Dig In Campaign".