Author: Pauline Hawkins

If you’re among the army of newbie veg growers inspired by lockdown free time, this issue contains fantastic handy hints for first-timers!  BUY THIS ISSUE As I write this we are still well and truly locked down and I don’t mind admitting that despite having more time than usual to keep my garden in order, I’m really missing being able…

The June issue of Britain’s best grow-at-home magazine is out now. If you can’t go out, subscribe and read online, or get it delivered! This is officially a coronavirus-free zone, writes KG editor Steve Ott (pictured below). We can’t claim that reading KG or even growing your own veg makes you immune from the virus, but we can promise not…

Checking out hobbit houses, making greenhouses, growing veg in straw bales… just some of the fascinating features in the latest KG! Hobbiton and horticulture KG writer Martin Fish and his wife Jill’s antipodean adventure took them to an unusual garden. Martin reports: “Back in 2017 I was delighted to be invited as one of the international judges at the New…

As daylight hours slowly begin to lengthen, it’s time to think about planting for the days of sunshine that lie ahead. Welcome to 2020! It may be cold outside, but many of us will start making the first tentative sowings inside or under cloches this month, writes KG editor Steve Ott (pictured below). Okay, it’s still a little early, but…

Here’s a new recipe book that could make a thought-provoking and useful Christmas gift for a loved one. A new recipe book, Tastes & Tales by Katherine and Alan Strang, brings thoughts and stories from refugee homelands and contains more than 80 recipes. The tales reveal just how hard the lives of others can be, and the simple recipes, which…