

April issue of Kitchen Garden is out now!
Things are looking up in the natural world… and the world in general! So with spring and summer thoughts in mind, let’s open the pages of the April KG for some well-deserved gardening therapy to see us through.
Kitchen Garden editor Steve Ott with some fantastic FREE seeds!
Steve writes: “April is a wonderful time in the garden, when conditions…

Podcast 95: An Interview with Martin Fish
This week we’ve had the pleasure to interview Martin Fish, one of the UK’s most well loved and respected horticulturalists. For over thirty years he’s been a regular on TV and radio and has passed on his gardening advice in books and gardening publications. Daniel Heighes interviews Martin about his career, his love of gardening and his plans for the…

POTS WITH STYLE
If you want to grow your fruit and veg in pots that are functional as well as pleasing on the eye, here are our Best Buy and Top Pics for the April issue
BEST BUYENAMEL POTS
These indoor enamel plant pots come in five different sizes with each pot a different shade of pink Dimensions: largest pot: Diameter 18cm/7in x…

How to grow A-Z of ‘no dig’ veg – new from Charles Dowding
Want to know the optimum time to sow runner beans, transplant cabbage and harvest your courgettes? Or when to water celery, how to banish carrot fly and why not digging your garden is more productive? Learning how to sow, grow, harvest and store the tastiest crops is made easy, one vegetable at a time, thanks to a new online course…

Birdy it’s cold outside
The RSPB is urging people to feed the garden birds that have helped raise the public’s spirits over lockdown to help the birds pull through the cold weather snap.With many parts of the country braced for more snow and icy temperatures this week, wildlife charity the RSPB is appealing to the public to take some easy ways to help our…

New series takes viewers to some of Scotland’s most important gardens
Whether planting potatoes or cultivating herbaceous borders, the Scots have long been known as a nation of gardeners.
Murdo Macdonald (63), from Edinburgh, makes his debut as a presenter of a new series called Gàrraidhean Mòra na h-Alba/ Gardens of Scotland on BBC ALBA this month which celebrates some of Scotland’s most important gardens due to their design, plant-life, setting…