Brassicas
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Grow your own: Broccoli
Broccoli is a highly nutritious vegetable that is a must for the veg patch. You will really notice the difference in flavour of your own grown broccoli and, being so fresh, it will contain even more vitamins and health giving…
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Pests and diseases
Enemy number one for most vegetable growers, slugs and snails, love damp conditions and thrive in a warm, wet summer.
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How to sow
Some vegetables are sown direct and then thinned out as they grow and are harvested where they were originally sown.
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Improving your soil
Having good soil is the foundation to producing successful crops. You can get a feel for what your soil type is like by squeezing ahandful. Does it stay together, moulded in asolid lump, or is it crumbly?
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Small space growing
If you don’t have a lot of room to grow, there are many ways to maximise crops from tiny places. Emma Rawlings suggests some ideas. Edible corner This picture shows that in a small sunny corner you can create something…
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Cornish Cabbage Plants
Andrew Arnold is the third generation of his family to grow bare-rooted brassica plants in the fields of Cornwall. In a county probably more famous for ice cream than vegetables, this method of producing a staple British dinner table favourite…
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Mudketeers diary -15th Dec 2017
Long lived kale In autumn 2016 I sowed a new kale called ‘Emerald Ice’. I put three in a large pot but only one survived. I ignored the plant and did nothing with it and it got hidden by other…
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Podcast 4: July 2016 Jobs this month on the veg patch
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast is here, packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. July 2016: Ten minute jobs, harvest broad beans, feed asparagus, net brassicas, pick mangetout, thin apples and much more!
