Features Archives - Kitchen Garden

Climbing plants to create your garden oasis

16th September 2020 Shannon Butcher Features

You could have all the flowers in the world but still be missing something to add that little extra ‘pizzazz’ to your garden. Enter, climbing plants. These plants will cling to most walls, trellis’ or other vertical surfaces with the correct support, producing a wonderful display in your garden oasis. Have a look at these climbers… Australian Bluebell Creeper (Sollya…

Glorious gardening gloves for green thumbs

8th September 2020 Shannon Butcher Advertisement Feature, Features

Any gardener knows that a sturdy pair of gloves is a valuable bit of kit to have on hand – pun intended. That’s why it’s important when choosing the perfect gardening gloves to make sure it ticks all the right boxes: Durability, flexibility and comfort. Have a look at these glorious gloves for hand protection in the garden. Acdyion Gardening…

Request the lastest catalogues and start planning for 2021!

27th August 2020 Shannon Butcher Advertisement Feature, Features

There’s no time like the present to start preparing your garden for next year. These fantastic, free catalogues from some of the best seed and gardening suppliers have everything you’ll need to plan out your garden or allotment. Kings Seeds Yet again Kings Seeds continues to offer you a great selection with many new introductions – all chosen for their…

Perfect planters and raised beds to make the most of small spaces

20th August 2020 Shannon Butcher Advertisement Feature, Features

Raised beds and planters can be spotted in most veg gardens and even most casual gardens these days, whether for ease of use, aesthetics or to utilise smaller spaces more efficiently. That’s not all though. Raised planters and beds have better drainage, which is great for crops and flowers and they are a little bit kinder to our achy backs,…

The Black Farmer, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones MBE calls for more allotments to be amde available by the UK's big landowners

The Black Farmer Calls For Land Owners To Make More Allotment Space Available

14th August 2020 Steve Ott Features, News

A 45% spike in the interest in obtaining information about urban allotments during the coronavirus outbreak accentuates 6-18 month waiting lists, according to the National Allotment Society (NAS). There are an estimated 330,000 allotment plots today in Britain, the vast majority of which are the responsibility of local councils. The National Trust has also provided many sites. NAS recommends that…

The best strimmers for the perfect garden finish

11th August 2020 Shannon Butcher Features

Strimmers may not be at the top of shopping lists when it comes to gardening tools, but it’s always a great idea to have one handy for those hard to reach spots that your mower can’t get to. They are the perfect tool for those choppy looking edges often left after a good lawn mowing, or for those clusters of…