Main Features
Pest Watch: Know your enemy... Strawberry red core
3 May 2012
Although strawberry red core is not a common problem thanks to efforts to promote the use of certified plants, this colourful ailment is nevertheless in it for the long haul. A description of its symptoms may involve a pretty rainbow of colours but its effects can be lethal.
Pest Watch: Know your enemy... onion downy mildew
5 April 2012.
Each month Lucy spotlights a common plant pest or disease and explains how to combat it.
Start the clock for Olympic runners
1 March 2012.
Show growers will be hoping their runner beans win prizes in this Olympic year. Medwyn Williams explains how to avoid false starts with this popular crop.
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.
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.
Headless tom makes top tip
1 December 2011.
When Joe Maiden dropped a ‘Sungold’ tomato plant, little did he realise that he had discovered a great top tip for KG readers!
A great year in the veg garden
3 November 2011.
At the end of another year, Joe Maiden takes a look back on his successes – and occasional failures – to see what lessons can be learned for the new season ahead.
Tried and tasted... grafted indoor crops
6 October 2011.
An exciting development has come about in the past few years as grafted plants, popular with commercial growers for some time now, have become available to the amateur gardener. Joe Maiden puts them to the test.
Tried and tasted... Broad beans
1 September 2011.
There are many broad bean varieties available, but do they vary much? Joe Maiden took a selection to trial, sowing them in late winter and recorded their yields and compared flavours.
Tried and tested... Table top growing
3 August 2011.
Table top gardening offers those with limited space or time the chance to grow vegetables. It can also be used to top up allotment-grown produce with ‘back door’ harvests. Joe Maiden explains how
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