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Jobs for July

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Ben Vanheems shares some essential tasks to carry out in your garden and allotment for July. SOW NOW Beetroot, cabbage, calabrese, carrots, chicory, endive, Florence fennel, French beans, kale, kohl rabi, lettuce, peas, radish, salad leaves, spinach, spring onion, sprouting broccoli, Swiss chard, turnips PLANT NOW Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celeriac, endive, French beans, kale, leeks, sprouting broccoli, strawberries HARVEST…
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Kitchen Garden is on TikTok!

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Kitchen Garden are sharing loads of useful gardening tips and tricks on TikTok – if you aren’t already following, you’re missing out! Fruit and veg aren’t the only thing Kitchen Garden are growing – our TikTok account is growing roots, shooting up, and blossoming right now. We’re sharing loads of videos lately, chock-full of the best Kitchen Garden tips and…
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Festival of Flavours will return for 2023, RHS has announced

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Festival of Flavours will return to all five Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Gardens later this year, the RHS has announced. Last year’s inaugural event celebrated plot-to-plate eating, world food and autumnal flavours and attracted tens of thousands of visitors. The 2023 RHS Festival of Flavours takes place at RHS Gardens on the following dates: RHS Garden Bridgewater (Salford), 8 –…
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July 2023 Edition

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In the July issue you’ll find: Steve Ott’s top tips for growing turnips; the wonderful world of wasps with Garden Organic’s Anton Rosenfeld; and Hannah Reid explains how certain weeds can be put to use for the good of your crops. Also in the July issue Jason the cloud gardener High in an apartment block in the centre of Manchester…
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Jobs for June

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Ben Vanheems shares some essential tasks to carry out in your garden and allotment for June. SOW NOW Beetroot, cabbage, calabrese, carrots, chicory, chillies, courgettes, cucumber, endive, Florence fennel, French beans, kale, kohl rabi, leeks, lettuce, peas, radish, salad leaves, spinach, spring onion, sprouting broccoli, squash and pumpkin, swede, sweetcorn, Swiss chard, turnips PLANT NOW Aubergine, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower,…
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It’s British Tomato Fortnight!

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British Tomato Fortnight marks the height of tomato season with a two-week celebration of everything toms! Running from May 29 to June 11 this year, British Tomato Fortnight is an annual celebration of our delicious British tomatoes. In Britain, we eat around 500,000 tonnes of tomatoes every year. Around one fifth of those are British tomatoes. British tomatoes are great…
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RHS’s Top 10 beneficial garden species

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The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has complied a list of the top ten beneficial garden species. iStock The list, which compiles the top ten most-asked-about species for biodiversity, is designed to celebrate the wildlife of our gardens and highlight the benefits of encouraging more species into our outdoor spaces.   The list was built from enquiries to the RHS Gardening Advice…
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Ones to watch in April

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Our picks of some of the best gardening videos to watch on YouTube this month. Huw Richards Huw Richards creates videos on YouTube focusing on no dig vegetable growing and organic and permaculture growing. In this video, he talks us through what he’s sowing in April in his quest towards self-sufficiency. Our Smallholding Adventure Tracy and Steven make videos from…
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Gardening inspiration to beat the heat this summer at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival

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Gardens packed with innovative ideas to reduce water use will take centre stage at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival this July as the UK expects another summer of heatwaves. Featuring drought tolerant planting schemes and landscaping techniques for managing water use, designs at the festival this year will demonstrate how gardeners can adapt their planting and landscaping practices to…
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A guide to fruitful pollination

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David Patch explains the botany behind fruit tree pollination and techniques for success Without doubt, pruning fruit trees is the most common area people struggle with when growing fruit trees. Pollination, however, comes a very close second. I think it is because there is a little science involved, and a lot of jargon, all of which seem to confuse and…
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