Broad Beans

  • Grow your own: Broad beans

    Grow your own: Broad beans

    This is a great crop for sowing in spring but also autumn to get some delicious beans in June when there is not much else in the veg garden.

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  • Podcast 67: Jobs for November

    Podcast 67: Jobs for November

    The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. There is so much to do in the garden and on the plot in November. Steve, Emma and Tony talk about tidying old crops,…

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  • Video: On the Plot – October

    Video: On the Plot – October

    Welcome to our monthly round-up of what we’ve got up to on the plot.  This month we’ve been sowing broad beans, harvesting squashes and reviewing garden loppers. We also give advice on how you can prevent leek moth! For more…

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  • Video: Jobs for October

    Video: Jobs for October

    It’s October and there’s plenty of jobs you can be doing on the plot. There are many jobs including sowing broad beans, harvesting squashes, clearing foliage and carving pumpkins. Here are some tips and advice on how to approach them.…

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  • Podcast 65: Jobs for October

    Podcast 65: Jobs for October

    The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. We’re well into October and there’s still plenty to do on the plot. Steve, Emma and Tony cover jobs to do this month including…

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  • Getting experimental with broad beans

    Getting experimental with broad beans

    There are strange goings on in the KG greenhouse and polytunnel this week Way back last autumn I decided to sow some broad beans in the KG polytunnel. This is a great way to use otherwise empty space over winter…

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  • Celebrate Edible Britain for National Gardening Week 2019

    Celebrate Edible Britain for National Gardening Week 2019

    Encouraging everyone to grow-your-own is the theme of this year’s National Gardening Week (29 April–5 May 2019) The nation’s biggest celebration of gardening returns for 2019 from Monday 29 April to Sunday 5 May 2019 as the Royal Horticultural Society…

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  • A gardener in the making

    A gardener in the making

    Part time KG helper and full time journalism student Theo Osborn talks about his experience helping the team with some sowing and filming Growing up, my mum would try to make me tend to some of the gardening, though it…

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  • A touch of glass…

    A touch of glass…

    Know your onions (and a host of other winter veg) with these top tips for growing during the winter months from The Greenhouse People Keep calm and carry on! As the temperature drops and nights start to draw in, many…

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  • Podcast 20: Jobs for the month – June

    Podcast 20: Jobs for the month – June

    The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Welcome to episode 20! Rachel Atkins talks you though tasks for your vegetable patch in June, including protect pea shoots, cut asparagus, pinch out…

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  • Podcast 7: What’s in the October issue?

    Podcast 7: What’s in the October issue?

    The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast is here, packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Steve, Emma and Tony look through the October 2016 issue and give their thoughts on jobs for the month, broad beans, raised beds…

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  • Podcast 4: July 2016 Jobs this month on the veg patch

    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!

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