Category: News

London’s seed savers mount a quiet revolution

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Londoners are rising to the challenges of climate change, food poverty, entrenched inequalityand our nation’s mental and physical health crises by reviving one of the oldest human activities of allsowing, saving and sharing seeds. The Gaia Foundation’s latest short film, A Quiet Revolution, profiles London’s urban seed and food growers who are members of the London Freedom Seed Bank, a…
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Visitors to Chaiwick Floer Market

Chiswick Flower Market grows

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Chiswick Flower Market today publishes its review into its progress made in 2021 and sets out its plans for an exciting 2022. The 8 markets that could be operated in 2021 managed to attract more than 60,000 visitors to what has become known as the “Columbia Road of the West”.  There were more than 60 different traders at the markets, with…
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Wales Seed hub

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A unique seed-selling coop, the Wales Seed Hub, is now offering gardeners a range of Welsh-grown seed of heritage and amateur vegetable varietiesThis is no ordinary seed company. For a start, the seed is all grown on members’ farms (in contrast to most seed you buy in the UK which is grown abroad – often as far afield as China).…
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New accessibility features added in the latest Kitchen Garden app update

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Users of the Kitchen Garden app on mobile can expect to find plenty of brand new accessibility features to greatly improve navigation and readability. The app has been redesigned for IOS and Android to optimise the user experience, allowing readers to catch up on gardening news and features with ease. These improvements include: Altering text sizeA text to speech functionNight…
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the Story of the Tomato at Chelsea

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The ever-popular tomato certainly deserves respect! Its history has been littered with adventure, travel and even wartime propaganda! Burpee Europe and Pennard Plants will be joining forces this September to celebrate the ‘love apple’ with a display at the Chelsea Flower Show. Based around the forthcoming book ‘Ten Tomatoes That Changed The World’ by William Alexander, it will explain why…
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E5 OR E10?

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With the introduction last week of E5 and E10 petrol options many will be wondering what can be used in petrol driven gardening tools.E10, the cheaper option and introduced to reduce CO2 emissions, is made up of 90% regular unleaded and 10% ethanol, hence why it is called E10. On the other hand, E5, the dearer alternative, is made up…
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Major Milestone for Kitchen Garden Podcast as it surpasses 250,000 downloads!

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The Kitchen Garden Podcast, home to a bi-monthly discussion of fantastic tips, how-to’s and news on all things gardening, has reached an amazing new milestone of a quarter of a million downloads! With a whopping 250,000 downloads now under its belt, the Kitchen Garden Podcast won’t take much recommending to those looking for something new to get stuck into. Whether…
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Wildlife is welcome!

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Actively attracting insects, worms and birds to our gardens and pots can help save the planet Gardeners at a national horticultural charity are encouraging us to attract wildlife into our gardens to help prevent irreversible extinctions and save the planet this ‘Organic September’.Leaders at Garden Organic say that without a collective effort to halt a worrying decline in wildlife, vital…
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