Looking for a little warmth and protection for your seedlings and young plants? Here’s a range of cloches we have been trying out this month BEST BUY MINI GREENHOUSE CLOCHE TUNNELS This Mini Greenhouse Cloche Tunnels (Single Width) has thick, rigid plastic walls with integral rainwater collection reservoirs on the roof. The cloche tunnel can be anchored to the ground…

Time to get sowing so let’s take a look at this range of sowing kits and accessories you might find usefulBEST BUYSEED SOWING SET This set includes four different bottle top roses to add to plastic bottles for watering, a dibber and widger set, a seed sower, a permanent marker pen, 50 x 12.7/5in white labels , 50 jiffy pellets…

Here are a few Christmas gifts ideas for your green-fingered friends and family BEST BUY PASSIFLORA TROWEL AND FORK This RHS-endorsed trowel and fork set has purple painted hardwood handles, FSC certified, and mirror-polished stainless steel heads. The trowel head is engraved with a famous quote from garden designer Gertrude Jekyl: “The love of gardening is a seed once sown,…

With cold weather in mind, this month we take a look at a range of crop protection optionsBEST BUY TUNNEL WITH FLEECE COVER Available in 2m, 3m, 4m, 5m and 6m lengths, the kit comes with semi-circular aluminium garden hoops with the cover of your choice, Veggiemesh insect netting, ultra fine Veggiemesh, protection butterfly netting, 30g fleece, polythene or soft…

With autumn nearly upon us, it’s time to get those bulbs in the ground such as, alliums. tulips and daffodils, but bulb planters can also be used for veg planting too, including potatoes, leeks, onions, shallots and garlic. BEST BUY SNEEBOER TIMBER BULB PLANTER With a 12.5cm (5in) deep, 6cm (2½in) diameter, hand-forged, stainless steel cone, this bulb planter can…

Need to tame parts of your garden or allotment, or just needing to keep it neat and trim? Here are some trimmers you might like to consider BEST BUYEGO CORDLESS LINE TRIMMER The ST1400E-ST cordless line trimmer has a 35cm (13¾in) cutting width with a 2.4mm diameter dual line. It has a bump head which cuts in a clockwise rotation…

I’m sure we gardeners are pretty good at multi-tasking, and even more so when equipped with a multi-purpose tool. Here are a few we tried out this monthBEST BUYMINI-MULTI-CHANGE-GIFT-SET This Mini Multi-change® Gift Set contains a trowel, small cultivator, small lawn rake, double hoe and small handle, suitable for planting, loosening, weeding and cleaning. The handle included can also be…

BEST BUYSOLAR WATERING SYSTEM The SOL-C24 model The SOL-C12 solar powered irrigation kit can be used for watering small to medium gardens or allotments and can also be used for pots, raised beds, hanging baskets, outdoor vegetables, polytunnels and greenhouses. Water is drawn from your water butt – the sunnier it is, the more it waters. Watering is through a…

If you garden you must be smart anyway, but here are some smart garden appliances  and apps to make you even smarter BEST BUYSMART WATER CONTROL This Smart Watering Control kit just requires to you to connect the Gardena hub to your home hub, download the Gardena app to your smart phone or iPad and follow the instructions. This will…

This month the KG Team have been trying out a range of gardening gloves suitable for light tasks around the garden (not suitable for pruning) BEST BUYWEED MASTER BAMBOO GLOVES With the environment in mind, these gloves are made from natural bamboo fibres which are naturally hypoallergenic and antibacterial, helping to reduce the bacteria that thrive in clothing and cause…

If you want to grow your fruit and veg in pots that are functional as well as pleasing on the eye, here are our Best Buy and Top Pics for the April issue BEST BUYENAMEL POTS These indoor enamel plant pots come in five different sizes with each pot a different shade of pink  Dimensions: largest pot: Diameter 18cm/7in x…

It’s great, you’ve got your greenhouse now what? Here are some extras to consider that you may find useful BEST BUY ELECTRONIC TEMP AND HUMIDITY WEATHER STATION With this Electronic Weather Station you can record the highest and lowest temperatures both indoors and out. Indoor temperature is sensed by the control box and outdoor temperature by a probe on the…