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Kitchen Garden is on TikTok!

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Kitchen Garden are sharing loads of useful gardening tips and tricks on TikTok – if you aren’t already following, you’re missing out! Fruit and veg aren’t the only thing Kitchen Garden are growing – our TikTok account is growing roots, shooting up, and blossoming right now. We’re sharing loads of videos lately, chock-full of the best Kitchen Garden tips and…
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Festival of Flavours will return for 2023, RHS has announced

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Festival of Flavours will return to all five Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Gardens later this year, the RHS has announced. Last year’s inaugural event celebrated plot-to-plate eating, world food and autumnal flavours and attracted tens of thousands of visitors. The 2023 RHS Festival of Flavours takes place at RHS Gardens on the following dates: RHS Garden Bridgewater (Salford), 8 –…
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BOOST YOUR BACK GARDEN BIODIVERSITY

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Bugs, birds and beneficial plants are the central themes in a new Garden Organic Backyard Biodiversity show garden, due to be unveiled at BBC Gardeners’ World Live from 15th to 18th June at the NEC, Birmingham.The organic gardening charity’s head gardener Emma O’Neill has designed a new biodiverse show garden for 2023, which brings together biodiversity-boosting elements and ideas to…
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It’s British Tomato Fortnight!

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British Tomato Fortnight marks the height of tomato season with a two-week celebration of everything toms! Running from May 29 to June 11 this year, British Tomato Fortnight is an annual celebration of our delicious British tomatoes. In Britain, we eat around 500,000 tonnes of tomatoes every year. Around one fifth of those are British tomatoes. British tomatoes are great…
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Kitchen gardens are a gardening priority this year says gardening expert, Huw Richards

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Following the prolonged wet weather, over half of Brits (53 percent) said they will be focussing on ‘maintaining’ their garden this year, whilst 44 percent will plant and grow fruit and vegetables and 38 percent will be planting ‘low cost’ plants and flowers, according to the YouGov research for Readly digital magazine and newspaper app.Other gardening priorities include planting bushes…
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New guide for gardeners to go peat-free

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The Wildlife Trusts have released a free handbook to help people go peat-free in their gardens and to recognise the importance of peatlands for nature and climate. Last August, the government announced the sale of peat compost to amateur gardeners will be banned by the end of 2024. As this is 18 months away, The Wildlife Trusts are urging people…
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‘Musical’ plants the talk of the town!

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Only Easter Sunday brings more people onto the streets of Milan than the city’s famous Design Week, the Fuorisalone. Over seven days every designer worth their salt vies to showcase the wackiest designs and most glamorous products – but never before has the festival seen a plant orchestra. Forget hollowed-out carrots or gourd drums, this is hi-tech stuff. Scientists and…
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RHS’s Top 10 beneficial garden species

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The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has complied a list of the top ten beneficial garden species. iStock The list, which compiles the top ten most-asked-about species for biodiversity, is designed to celebrate the wildlife of our gardens and highlight the benefits of encouraging more species into our outdoor spaces.   The list was built from enquiries to the RHS Gardening Advice…
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Gardening inspiration to beat the heat this summer at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival

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Gardens packed with innovative ideas to reduce water use will take centre stage at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival this July as the UK expects another summer of heatwaves. Featuring drought tolerant planting schemes and landscaping techniques for managing water use, designs at the festival this year will demonstrate how gardeners can adapt their planting and landscaping practices to…
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From Greenhouse to Garden: How to transition your plants to the great outdoors

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Plants raised indoors, whether they are edible or ornamental, often need to be acclimatised to the great outdoors gradually, as the cooler temperatures, lower humidity and increased exposure to the elements can all affect young and tender plants. This process of preparing seedlings to be planted outdoors is known as “hardening off.” It usually takes two or three weeks, and…
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