Author: Steve Ott

Steve Ott is editor of Kitchen Garden magazine and started his career as a professional grower, producing everything from cut flowers to vegetables. He has been growing fruit and veg all his life and spends most of his spare time in his garden in the East Midlands. He loves to experiment with crops and varieties he has never grown before and when he isn’t gardening is to be found out in the countryside bird watching and walking his dog Ted.
A farmer in Rwanda

Celebrity Gardener Toby Buckland urges us all to “use our gardens for good”

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During lockdown many Britons turned to gardening with new-found – or renewed – enthusiasm. Now that coronavirus restrictions are easing in the UK, celebrity gardener and patron of the charity Send a Cow, Toby Buckland, is encouraging us to pay back what we’ve gained from our green spaces this past year – by helping people in Africa who are still at risk in the pandemic, and who are also on the frontline of the climate crisis.   He’s suggesting sponsored garden campouts and other fundraising activities in our back or front gardens, or…
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Longford Castle and the estate’s formal gardens in Wiltshire, home to the charity’s patron, the Countess of Radnor and her family (Credit: The Longford Estate)

PLANTING HOPE AT LONGFORD CASTLE

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Stunning private estate to welcome visitors this June in support of national charity Horatio’s Garden Longford Castle, the private ancestral seat of the Radnor family for over 300 years, built byElizabeth I chief lady-in-waiting, will be opening its spectacular gardens to the public onSunday 6th June from 2pm – 5pm in support of national charity, Horatio’s Garden. The charity’s patron,…
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Heligan Gardens wild week

Heligan Wild Week

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World Record Breaking Insect Hotel Planned For Cornwall Survival Skills; Foraging; Assault Courses; even Wild Feasting.  It’s all happening at The Lost Gardens of Heligan this May Half Term, Saturday 29 May until Sunday 6 June when the Heligan team invite visitors to rediscover their Wild Side, restore their survival skills and enjoy a week of much needed outdoor play…
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