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Plant power: How to grow your own plant-based protein

How to grow your own plant-based protein this Veganuary

8th January 2024 Web Editor Features, Tips and Advice

Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian or just trying to cut down your meat and dairy intake, how about growing your own plant-based protein? Growing any of your own produce is one of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint and if you’re making the switch to a plant-based diet then why not flex your green fingers? The experts at The…

Jazz up your sprouts!

8th December 2023 Steve Ott Recipes

They don’t want, or need, to be soggy, tasteless or grey… liven up your Christmas dinner with this zingy recipe from the team at YesPeas! Peas And Brussels Sprouts With Hazelnut And Orange Glaze Ingredients 200g prepared Brussels sprouts 400g frozen peas 50g butter 50g hazelnuts, roughly chopped Zest and juice of one orange 1tsp sugar Sea salt and black…

How to grow peas and beans for drying

3rd October 2023 Steve Ott Features, Tips and Advice

Green beans and peas are a national favourite, yet relatively few UK gardeners grow them for drying. KG editor Steve Ott offers some advice on growing and storing these nutritious crops. Peas sown in guttering or pots can be planted out when established Rather than turning to GM to feed an ever-growing population, some experts believe we should plant more…

Ben Vanheem offers more inspiration for great hanging pots and containers to grow fruit and veg.

Growing In Small Spaces: Hanging Gardens Of Plenty

13th April 2023 Steve Ott Features

Ben Vanheem offers more inspiration for great hanging pots and containers. Make an upside-down planter Photo: kkimpel Home-made upside-down planters are an incredibly fun way to pack in more vegetables for very little effort and cost. The easiest way to make an upside-down planter is to drill planting hole/s into the bottoms and sides of large buckets. Sometimes sold as…

Grow your own: Peas

3rd March 2023 Web Editor Fruit & Veg Growing Guides

This has to be one of the favourite veg of all time; even children manage to eat a few peas when they may turn their nose up at other vegetables. And peas are packed with nutrients and goodness especially when picked straight from the garden. Home-grown also have a superior taste that has to be experienced to be believed. They…

How to sow

24th April 2020 Shannon Butcher Tips and Advice

Some vegetables are sown direct and then thinned out as they grow and are harvested where they were originally sown. However there is another technique; this uses a nursery bed to sow seeds in to and these are moved to their final positions when they are small plants. Traditionally crops such as brassicas (cabbages, kale, cauliflowers, Brussels sprouts etc.) and…

Growing in containers

22nd April 2020 Shannon Butcher Tips and Advice

So, what’s a container? This depends on what crops you are growing, for example lettuce and salad leaves can be grown in quite shallow containers. A small trough 17cm (7in) deep and 30cm (12in) long would suffice for a few mixed cut and come again salad leaves. Ideally, aim for atrough about 20cm (8in) wide, 60cm (2ft) long and at…

Small space growing

14th April 2020 Emma Rawlings News

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 attractive but productive. Planted at the back is an espalier fruit tree. You can buy young trained trees or you…

National Beanpole Week 2020

8th April 2020 Steve Ott News

In these troubling times, there has never been a greater need to make use of our outdoor space and create something positive Gardeners and coppice workers nationwide are getting ready for National Beanpole Week – despite the pressures coronavirus is imposing on all of us. The dedicated week, from 11 to 19 April, celebrates and promotes the importance of our…

Grow your own veg fast

28th March 2020 Steve Ott News

In these uncertain times lots of people are having the urge to start growing their own veg. Why not have a go at microgreen growing tasty nutritious veg in a matter of days. Microgreens are veg harvested while still only tiny shoots and are packed with vitamins and antioxidants to help boost health. They can also be grown on windowsills.…

Join the Raised Bed Revolution

30th April 2019 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews, Tips and Advice

Raised beds are the answer to many gardeners’ problems making gardening easier, accessible, more productive and available to all. Gardening Works Wooden Raised Beds are available in different sizes and heights making them user friendly for children, the elderly and the disabled who can garden at a height that is perfect for their needs, 75cm high disability raised beds and…

Stepping up to the plate

18th April 2019 Steve Ott News

A gardening collaboration set up by Wedgwood for college students has been so successful it is returning for a second year. Last year Wedgwood gave 30 students at Reaseheath College, in Nantwich, the chance to work on garden spaces at the World of Wedgwood, experience the Wedgwood show garden build at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, as well as introducing them…

Mudketeers diary- 17th April 2019

17th April 2019 Steve Ott Blog

Eggbox growing I decided to experiment this year with starting seedlings off in egg boxes. I bought 50 of them off Ebay and they worked out at 12p each. To give greater depth to the container I closed the box and then cut out the top. I half filled the egg box with compost and dropped a seed in each…

Celebrate Edible Britain for National Gardening Week 2019

12th February 2019 Steve Ott News

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 (RHS) encourages everyone to get involved in grow-your-own. The theme for this year is Edible Britain, with the RHS calling…