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Reviews

Opinions and reviews of the latest gardening gear from the Kitchen Garden team.

Edible Garden for Chelsea’s Great Pavilion

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See the totally edible garden being produced by the Miracle-Gro Company at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.  According to Vicky Page, the company’s spokesperson, “We are packing the raised beds with an amazing variety of edible flowers, productive fruit trees and a host of different vegetables that will be displayed in tip-top condition.” The Miracle-Gro’wers Urban School Garden will be…
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Growing Cucumbers (with Sea Spring Seeds)

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Cucumbers are as versatile as they are delicious, lending themselves well to pickling, eating raw in salads and even cooking. Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) are heat-loving vegetables best adapted to the warmest part of the year. They are members of the Cucurbitaceae family – which also includes pumpkins, courgettes and melons – and their viny plants are grown for the crunchy,…
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Growing your own couldn’t be simpler!

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NEW Miracle-Gro Gro-ables Seeds Pods makes growing easy! ADVERTISING FEATURE: Why grow your own vegetables? Well, there’s the practical advantage that growing your own vegetables is often cheaper than shop-bought produce, but for most of us the real benefits are far greater than this. Anyone that has had a go at growing their own will tell you about the delicious…
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Sprouting Seed Packets

Sprouting Seed Packets

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Old seeds prove they are not past their sow by date Suffolk seedsman Mr Fothergill’s prides itself on the quality of its seeds – though not, normally, to the extent of running germination trials on unopened, out-of-date packets. Perhaps it should: an eagle-eyed member of staff recently noticed that amongst a few out-of-date and slightly damaged-by-damp packets of sweet pea…
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New Microgreens To Try

New Microgreens To Try

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 The selection of fast-growing microgreens just got even bigger with these new introductions for 2016 If your forward planning for spring 2016 wasn’t all it might have been, seedling salad crops offer a quick way of closing the ‘hungry gap’. Alongside the wide range of leaf crops that you can grow as microgreens, there are some intriguing new contenders to…
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The top 5 tastiest flowers (Yes! You can eat them!)

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Flowers were first recorded as being used in food in 140 BC, many different cultures since incorporated them into everyday foods. 1. Calendula Calendula flower petals make a tasty addition to summer salads and stir-fries. Sow: March-May thinly direct into finely raked, moist, warm, weed free soil where the plants are to flower 13mm (½”) deep. As the seedlings develop,…
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