News
Pippa Greenwood embarks on UK ‘Grow Your Own’ tour
1 February 2012
One of Britain’s most popular gardening broadcasters will be hitting the road later this spring to promote the values of growing your own.
Grown in Kent competition 2012
30 January 2012
The Kent County Agricultural Society will launch the 2012 Grown in Kent competition in February this year. The initiative was first rolled out in 2011 to encourage school age children to grow a variety of produce.
Grow a tree of hope this Mother’s Day
28 January 2012
This Mother’s Day help TREE AID celebrate 25 years of supporting mums in Africa by planting a tree for your own mum. For just £10 you could grow a mango, shea or baobab tree in her name and help African women and their families grow themselves a better future.
Other News
- Falmouth Spring Garden festival - Spring fever will spread from port to moor
- Invest in a love nest
- WWT welcomes the Festival of Gardening for Wildlife
- 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?
Competitions
All set to sow
CLOSING DATE: Friday, 9th March 2012
A new season is starting and we're itching to get sowing - but the garden is not quite the place for seedlings yet. Gardeners keen to make an early start would do better to take a look at the new indoor growing sets in the Kitchen Garden collection from Stewart Garden.
Seed spacing sorted
CLOSING DATE: Friday, 9th March 2012
There's no stopping the 'grow your own' movement, judging by sales of specialist sowing equipment at Ascott Smallholding Suppliers. Managing director Mark Self reports that sales of the Earthway Precision Seeder are up 30% - and that customers now include home gardeners and allotmenteers.
Other Competitions
Feature Articles
Jobs for the month: March 2012
2 February 2012
Five minute fixes with Guy Watson, founder of Riverford Organic Farms - For keen gardeners, with the days lengthening, the sun climbing and soil temperatures rising, the call to plant and sow will be becoming overwhelming. Unless you are blessed with light (sandy) and well-drained soil, I would urge you leave the spade, fork, rake and certainly the rotavator in the shed until the soil is dry enough to crumble easily. If it moulds into a ball or worm or sticks to your boots it is probably too wet. Gently digging over, especially if you can avoid walking on dug ground, will open the soil up and aid drying, but don’t force a seed bed until it is dry enough.
Undercover: March 2012
2 February 2012
Sowing and planting - March is a hectic time for sowing and planting under cover.
Tried and tasted... beetroot
2 February 2012
Beetroot is a popular and versatile vegetable, adding colour and flavour to salads and even some puddings. Joe Maiden puts seven popular varieties, old and new, through their paces.
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: March 2012
Grow better beetroot
Best varieties for colour and taste
Raw passions
Is a raw food diet more healthy?
Meet new plotters
In Huddersfield, Ipswich and Norwich
Toby Buckland
on growing better tomatoes
All-year cabbage
It’s easy with our expert advice!
No gaps, no gluts
Making the most of your patch
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