News
Falmouth Spring Garden festival - Spring fever will spread from port to moor
27 January 2012
Zumba Zestifal, Pop-Up Gardens, Run Falmouth, Get Arty! and a host more...
Invest in a love nest
23 January 2012
Gardeners are urged to give love a helping hand this Valentine’s Day, by The Wildlife Trusts and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).
WWT welcomes the Festival of Gardening for Wildlife
11 January 2012
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) will be celebrating ‘gardening for wildlife’ throughout March by hosting a medley of green-fingered events and activities at its nine visitor centres across the UK.
Other News
- Nature to benefit as major herb and tomato grower commits to conservation
- Early season British daffodils on sale before Christmas at major supermarket
- Best of British for RHS Schools
- Support for city farm
- The secret of outdoor peppers
- Improve your world with Britain in Bloom
- CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR BATTERY HENS?
- Help for the Pearl Bordered Fritillary butterfly
- British college to travel to Malawi to make ‘One Difference’
- New rival for The Kelsae onion?
Competitions
Win £100 of shopping vouchers with Churchill
CLOSING DATE: Monday, 6th February 2012
A leak in the roof, a fridge-freezer packing up when you've just done a big shop, or a prang to your car... Things in life don't always go to plan, and its times like these when you could really do with a friend.
Win a garden shed full of tools worth over £500
CLOSING DATE: Saturday, 3rd March 2012
GET YOUR GARDEN SORTED FOR SPRING WITH FOREST'S 6 X 4 OVERLAP APEX SHED AND BULLDOG PREMIER TOOLS PACKAGE!
Other Competitions
Feature Articles
Heritage veg with a modern touch
5 January 2012
The KG team meet a very modern gardener who is restoring a walled kitchen garden to the way its famous Victorian creator intended.
Undercover: February 2012
5 January 2012
Start sowing - As well as sowing crops for your greenhouse or polytunnel this month, you can start off plants for the veg plot in pots and modules – although some of them will need to be kept in a heated propagator.
Jobs for the month: February 2012
5 January 2012
Sow beetroot - Sowing anything outside this early in the season is a risk for most of us and impossible for many. However, if you have a cool greenhouse you can start to sow some early crops in trays or pots ready for planting out once the weather and soil conditions improve.
Other Feature Articles
Videos
KG Video Diaries: Growing Rubarb
5 October 2011
Sometimes I think rhubarb is actually an alien species, a kind of triffid that lives underground with a personality of its own. The first shoot pushes through the earth in a most uncommon – even unearthly – way, and the enormous leaves point skyward like some organic communication dishes.
Blogs
Out with the old, in with the new by Steve Ott
23 November 2011
Can't believe the weather this month – driving home from work last night it was 10.5C on November 22!
Reconciling the seasons by Naomi Slade
30 August 2011
It is a bit bad to be thinking ahead to winter – even though the press releases for Christmas presents have been arriving for a month now and I am just working up to writing my December copy for Kitchen garden.Other Blogs
- Potatoes in pots - is it just hype? by Helen Gazeley
- Purple potatoes and paint pot primroses by Helen Babbs
- Big fish, botanicals and an Isle of Wight pickle frenzy by Naomi Slade
- Art and Edibles at Hampton Court by Naomi Slade
- Puppets, prison, peas and publication! by Helen Babbs
- Blue tomatoes and mouldy melons by Steve Ott
Diary Dates
A cacophony of crocus
27 January 2012
Celebrate the coming of spring with a day at historic Forde Abbey and see the magnificent carpets of crocus.
Current Issue: Feb 2012
Colour with crunch
Grow great carrots
Meet Toby Buckland’s new baby
50 stone Priscilla the pumpkin
Joe’s super-fast spinach
Grow your tastiest ever tatties
Pick a perfect pear
Growing advice and great offers
Win over £2000 worth of products
Free 4 packets of early-sow veg for every reader
Free Carrot ‘St Valery’ seeds
Plus... Digging tools tried and tested... Recycling tips and tricks... Visit community allotments in Bristol and Cardiff... Delicious recipes... Gardening bargains galore and much, much more...
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: March issue: 14th February 2012
