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February issue now on sale!

4th January 2022 Pauline Hawkins Latest issue

Happy new year! We prepare to welcome spring with the February issue of Kitchen Garden, now on sale and full of great growing ideas for the forthcoming season. Get your February issue now! In these short, dark days after the demise of strands of sparkling Christmas tinsel and colourful lights, after the tree has been packed away, recycled or removed…

Win a prize bundle of seed packets and gardening gloves!

23rd December 2021 Sam Hewitt Competitions, News

Here at Kitchen Garden, we know that our readers love a competition! So, we thought let’s offer some gardening goodies for one lucky winner to enjoy. With 10 chances of winning, this competition is one not to miss! To be in with a chance of winning, here’s how to enter: Fill in your detailsPress enterSit back, relax and wait Competition…

Podcast 113: Christmas in the Mudketeers Potting Shed

23rd December 2021 Ben Stockdale Podcast

Steve, Emma and Tony celebrate Christmas in the potting shed with a special festive poem and a discussion of the gardening gifts they’re hoping to receive this year. Listen to the Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast now by searching for us on your favourite podcast app, using the following links or by simply pressing play on the podcast player below! Spotify:…

prOdUCt reviews: SOWING KITS (February 22)

22nd December 2021 Tony Flanagan Best Buy, Reviews

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…

Frost: the silent killer

20th December 2021 Tony Flanagan Features

Climate change is causing extremes of weather, and none is more deadly to your garden than the silent killer of frost. Gardeners are being urged to prepare for frost throughout winter and early spring by horticultural charity Garden Organic. In January 2021 a record 18.5 air frost days were recorded in the UK. When temperatures are low, frost will form.…

A consultation on th euse of peat in UK gardens begins on December 18 2021

GOVERNMENT CONSULTS ON THE banning of peat IN UK HORTICULTURE

18th December 2021 Steve Ott News

Plans to ban the use of peat in horticulture in England and Wales by the end of this Parliament were set out by the Government today (Saturday 18 December) in an effort to protect precious peatland habitats and meet net zero targets. Peat is the UK’s largest carbon store and is routinely dug up in the UK for horticultural purposes,…