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.
Vegan Veg: Cheap frills!
2 February 2012.
The asparagus pea is to be found in most seed catalogues, yet how many of us grow them or know how to get the best from them in the kitchen? Vegans Lonnie and Richard Morris do and encourage us all to give them a try.
Vegan Veg - Recipe: Asparagus pea and sun dried tomato terrine
2 February 2012.
Before I begin, I should make it clear that I’ve been working with the ‘Winged Pea’ Lotus tetragonolobus (Tetragonolobus purpureus is the more usual red flowered form grown) as opposed to the ‘Winged Bean’ Psophocarpus tetragonolobus , which is also known as the asparagus pea and is used in South East Asian cookery.
Vegan Veg - Recipe: Asparagus pea soup
2 February 2012.
Before I begin, I should make it clear that I’ve been working with the ‘Winged Pea’ Lotus tetragonolobus (Tetragonolobus purpureus is the more usual red flowered form grown) as opposed to the ‘Winged Bean’ Psophocarpus tetragonolobus , which is also known as the asparagus pea and is used in South East Asian cookery.
Young Gardeners: Growing gardeners of the future - March 2012
2 February 2012.
The weather has been fickle in the kitchen garden at the John Whitgift Academy in Grimsby, but under the guidance of tutor John Cavill, the eager pupils have been busy preparing for the year ahead.
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.
Current Issue: March 2012
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