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Tips for Choosing a Garden Shed £6m Gateway

12th May 2017 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews, Tips and Advice

A shed might be a simple structure but choosing one that exactly fits your requirements can be more complicated than you might think Before buying, it’s essential that you spend time thinking carefully about what use you are going to make of the shed, both now and in the future, as these invaluable garden structures have a habit of being…

Raspberry Yummy

15th March 2017 Steve Ott News, Reviews

A brand new variety of raspberry that has it all. Another exciting new launch from Suttons for 2017 Raspberry Yummy is a dwarf and compact variety that is incredibly easy to grow. Producing fruit in the first year you won’t have to wait around to sample the delicious deep red berries that crop over a long period throughout summer. Growing…

How to Care for an Olive Tree

2nd March 2017 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews, Tips and Advice

Add a touch of Mediterranean glamour to your home – with an olive tree. While the weather in the UK may leave little to be desired at the best of times, there is one way to add a touch of Mediterranean glamour to your home; with an olive tree. Adding an unquestionably beautiful touch to your garden, these trees not…

3 non-harmful ways to deter pests from your garden

20th February 2017 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews, Tips and Advice

Here are a handful of non-harmful, eco-friendly and sustainable ways of deterring pests Are you a keen gardener keeping a watchful eye on the wildlife that’s visiting your garden? Well, if so, you may be wondering how best to deter the various pests that are on your plot. Here are a handful of non-harmful, eco-friendly and sustainable ways of deterring…

Do yourself a good turn – tumbling composter

13th December 2016 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews

With this tumbling composter all the hard work of creating your own compost disappears. The rods and fins do all the work mixing and turning, breaking down large clusters which will activate and speed up the process giving you beautiful ready to use compost for your garden. Watch the video: PRICE: £54.98…

Selecting The Best Value Greenhouse for All-year-round Growing

10th October 2016 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews, Tips and Advice

A good quality greenhouse enables gardeners to ensure the productive growth of their crops, regardless ofthe weather, season or location. What is the value of a Domestic Greenhouse? A good quality greenhouse enables gardeners to ensure the productive growth of their crops, regardless of the weather, growing season or location. Greenhouse gardening was once the activity solely for commercial plant…

Windy Weather Tips For Your Greenhouse

6th September 2016 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews

A Wind Resistant Greenhouse During Winter Weather Come & see us at Malvern Show, 24th & 25th September Although hurricanes and uncontrollable storms are unlikely in the UK, we do seem to have received our fare share of windy weather this winter! High winds and stormy weather can leave behind a trail of unwanted damage, broken pots and fallen fences…

Keep your crops watered

18th August 2016 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews

with the Click & Drip Watering Kit from Greenhouse Sensation This irrigation system can be fitted directly to your waterbutt directing much needed moisture to your plants. The narrow pipework with holes at 30cm spacings can be woven through your veg beds to keep all your crops well watered. With the water directed to the base of the plants and…

Guide To Choosing Your Greenhouse

4th August 2016 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews, Tips and Advice

Advice from the experts on how to choose your new greenhouse A good quality greenhouse will extend the growing season of your plants and allow you to grow a larger variety. There’s now a greenhouse suitable for every garden but, with so many to choose from, how do you decide which one is best for you? Our advice is to…

Digging into the issues

1st July 2016 Steve Ott Reviews

John’s writing aims to make us think about how our gardening affects the world around us… Environmental gardening writer John Walker has just released a second collection of his thought-provoking ‘Digging Deep’ articles, which originally appeared in Organic Gardening magazine (the series was later inherited by Kitchen Garden). Digging Deep in the Garden: Book Two (Earth-friendly Books, 2016, ISBN 978-0-9932683-5-9)…

Slug and snail controls on trial

3rd June 2016 Steve Ott Reviews

The project, which will test six different strategies and is the first of its kind to be conducted under garden conditions. A year-long research project, designed to help gardeners combat slugs and snails more effectively, has been launched by the RHS. In seven of the past ten years slugs and snails have headed the RHS’s annual list of the top…

The walk-in wonderwall

20th May 2016 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews

The Walk-in Wonderwall provides a wall against the elements and garden pests. While, at the same time allowing rain and sunlight to enter. The Walk-in Wonderwall is designed for the garden / allotment growers budget and is ideal for the organic grower. After fighting a losing battle year after year against pigeons, cabbage white butterfly and other garden pests, we…

Northern Polytunnels provides top-of-the-range polytunnel for Manchester foodbank

9th May 2016 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews

Here at North Polytunnels we believe that every community should have the opportunity to grow their own fruit and veg Which is why we jumped at the chance to work with the Lally Centre when we heard about the wonderful work it was doing for its community in Collyhurst, Manchester. The Easy-Build PolytunnelWe wanted to provide the centre’s new allotment…

OUT NOW: Let’s Grow & Cook

27th April 2016 Steve Ott News, Recipes, Reviews

Let’s Grow & Cook: A new special edition from Kitchen Garden Kitchen Garden editor Steve Ott and food writer Anna Pettigrew have teamed up to launch this special edition volume, Let’s Grow & Cook. The 132-page publication presents detailed advice for growing more than 50 crops, from the most used ingredients through to those now gaining popularity such as cucamelons…