Steve Ott

  • Celebrate Edible Britain for National Gardening Week 2019

    Celebrate Edible Britain for National Gardening Week 2019

    Encouraging everyone to grow-your-own is the theme of this year’s National Gardening Week (29 April–5 May 2019) The nation’s biggest celebration of gardening returns for 2019 from Monday 29 April to Sunday 5 May 2019 as the Royal Horticultural Society…

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  • Video: Save While you Grow

    Video: Save While you Grow

    Discover some great tips on how to save money and recycle old items on your plot! For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below: www.youtube.com/kitchengardenmagazine

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  • Podcast 47: Getting ready for Spring – Mulches

    Podcast 47: Getting ready for Spring – Mulches

    The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. This month, Steve, Tony and Emma talk about getting your garden ready for spring planting, and take a close look at mulches. This episode…

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  • March 2019 issue out now!

    March 2019 issue out now!

    The days are gradually getting longer, and that means it’s time to pick up your award-winning KG and decide what to grow this year! Most of us can risk some sowings this month – if not outside then in a…

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  • Video: Cabbage Varieties

    Video: Cabbage Varieties

    Steve Ott takes you through some tasty varieties of cabbage to get your teeth into! For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below: www.youtube.com/kitchengardenmagazine

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  • RHS herbarium to go online

    RHS herbarium to go online

    A vast new online resource will soon be available to gardeners. The RHS has digitised  its collection of dried plant specimens Pic: Herbarium toolkit. Credit: Picture: RHS/Joanna Kossak A vast new online resource will soon be available to gardeners. The…

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  • Get set for the count!

    Get set for the count!

    The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch is nearly upon us. All you need is an hour of your spare time to join in There’s an extra incentive to sign up for this year’s 40th anniversary RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch: register to…

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  • A century in trees

    A century in trees

    The Forestry Commission is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and you can explore its growth through a timeline of photographs. The Forestry Commission will be celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and you can explore its century of growth…

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  • Plant diet devised for people and planet

    Plant diet devised for people and planet

    A report published in the medical journal, The Lancet, advises on what we should eat for our own health and that of the planet How might it be possible to feed 10 billion people healthily, while also reducing our demands…

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  • Snowdrop Festival brings first signs of Spring

    Snowdrop Festival brings first signs of Spring

    On a wintry day there is nothing better than visiting a garden teeming with one of the earliest flowering plants of the year The National Garden Scheme’s fourth annual Snowdrop Festival brings the first signs of Spring to everyone with…

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  • Leading cancer charity have launched an interactive garden experience

    Leading cancer charity have launched an interactive garden experience

    Penny Brohn UK and a digital mapping company to develop an interactive journey around the gardens at its National Centre near Bristol The interactive garden map allows users to explore the beautiful gardens where they can follow different journeys to…

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  • Springtime has sprung for hyacinths

    Springtime has sprung for hyacinths

    Hyacinths are the pearls of springtime and will take you on a spring breeze into the season we’ve been looking forward to for so long With over two thousand varieties, the hyacinth spans all parts of the rainbow, with flowers…

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