Steve Ott
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Plants and bees – a 100 million-year-old love affair…
All gardeners love and appreciate the flowers in their gardens… …but few realise that almost all plants, shrubs and trees, are entirely dependent on pollinating insects for their ability to reproduce and thrive. In fact, plants evolved flowers purely as…
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Video: Four Handy Gardening Hacks!
A selection of handy hacks that can save you money and improve your gardening Help the germination of seed by lining your seed drills. Secondly, you might want to scratch that seed sower from your Christmas list, just create one…
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Kitchen Garden scoops top award
The UK’s best-selling growing-your-own magazine wins Garden Publication of the Year accolade at London awards ceremony. Kitchen Garden has picked up a top accolade from the Garden Media Guild Awards. The magazine was crowned Garden Publication of the Year at…
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January 2019 Kitchen Garden… out now!
Banish the winter blues with some greens! Our latest issue is packed with great features, news and tips for a fantastic 2019 harvest We may still be a long way from making those spring sowings, but I still get excited…
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Special offers for KG subscribers!
We’ve got some great discounts exclusively for Kitchen Garden subscribers on all manner of gardening goodies, so read on… Our monthly Garden Store feature in Kitchen Garden magazine highlights a host of ideas for you to improve and enhance your…
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Why a Polytunnel Makes All the Difference in Winter
The winter season is a difficult time for a gardener who wants to continue growing their produce all-year-round. The winter season is a difficult time for a gardener who wants to continue growing their produce all-year-round. After all, the unpredictable…
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Honey harvest one-third better than last year’s
The British Beekeepers’ Association (BBKA) reports an encouraging year The annual honey survey from the British Beekeepers’ Association shows that honeybees survived the difficult conditions this year and produced a crop a third bigger than last year’s. The honey crop…
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Talking pests and diseases
The RHS John MacLeod Annual Lecture is held every autumn and provides a platform for key horticultural issues An audience of RHS members, scientists, policymakers and the media is invited each year to hear luminaries of the scientific world speak…
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‘Dress-up day’ at Mr Fothergill’s for Children in Need
Mr Fothergill’s Seeds has a relaxed dress code – so staff dressed up last week to raise money for BBC Children in Need Commercial Director Tim Jeffries agreed to donate £1 for each person who came to work wearing a…
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Climate change drives ornamental invasion
Climate change could mean that garden plants become a problem on the other side of the fence Research at the University of Konstanz in southern Germany by Emily Haeuser and colleagues, published in the Journal of Ecology, examined three categories…
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Better bird-feeding
With winter closing in, the RSPB has shared its top tips on how best to help your garden birds through the winter Birds have benefited from the mild autumn, says the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, but will…
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Video: Gnome Alone This Christmas
Move aside John Lewis, this year it’s Daucus the Gnome who’s going to make everyone’s Christmas wishes come true! When a gardener finds himself alone at Christmas, will Daucus the Gnome step in to save the day? ??? You won’t…
