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Grow your own: Peppers

3rd March 2023 Web Editor Fruit & Veg Growing Guides

There are two types of pepper, or capsicum, to give them their proper name. There are the chilli peppers and the sweet peppers, the latter being the milder relatives Peppers are not the easiest of crops to grow because they do need warmth and sun to do well, but given the right conditions they will produce a good harvest. Ideally…

Video: Growing Cardinal Peppers in a Self-Watering Plant Pot | Tony’s Plot Diaries

31st August 2020 Ben Stockdale Tips and Advice, Video

Tony is checking the progress of his sweet peppers in the polytunnel. One of his favourite varieties for it is dark purple colouring is a variety called ‘Cardinal’.…

Growing undercover

1st May 2020 Shannon Butcher Tips and Advice

The vast majority of popular fruit and vegetable crops can be grown outside in the UK; however our growing season is relatively short and can be quite variable weather-wise to say the least. Photo: iStock/Alicia Garcia Monedero As you get into your hobby you will soon appreciate the benefits a protected growing space, in the form of a greenhouse or…

Plug plant essentials

27th April 2020 Shannon Butcher Tips and Advice

Sowing seeds isn’t the only way to raise the plants you need to achieve great harvests. Plug plants offer a convenient alternative to buying seeds, or as away to fill gaps or top up numbers if sowings fail for any reason. What is a plug plant? A plug plant is so called because the seeds are sown into ‘plugs’ of…

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…

One to try: Dream Peppers

20th April 2020 Tony Flanagan Tips and Advice

If you’re looking for a pepper plant that produces lots of fruit, says Tony Flanagan, why not try ‘Lemon Dream’ and ‘Tangerine Dream’? I tend to prefer the larger sweet peppers such as ‘King of the North’ and ‘California Wonder’ but last year I tried out a new variety (courtesy of Marshalls Seeds) which produces much smaller fruits, a snacker…

Sowing Kits

21st February 2020 Tony Flanagan Advertising Features, Reviews

Kitchen Garden Best Buy and Top Picks for April. This month the KG team have been looking at sowing kits and more… BEST BUY SEED SOWING STARTER KIT This sowing kit comes with a five litre bag of vermiculite, a pack of four bottle top waterers, a dibber and widger, a pack of 10cm (4in) 50 plant labels, two waterproof…

Kitchen Garden Best Buy and Top Picks

24th May 2019 Tony Flanagan Advertising Features, Reviews

Here are our favourite gardening products for July, chosen for their quality, effectiveness and value for money BEST BUY SALAD PLANTER This salad planter will accommodate 37 litres of compost for growing a wide range of vegetable crops. Feeder mats pull water from the reservoir, keeping the compost suitably moist. Dimensions: 55x55x25cm depth (22x22x10in). GREENHOUSE SENSATIONwww.greenhousesensation.co.ukTEL: 0845 602 3774PRODUCT CODE:…

Video: How to Make Shakshuka

20th November 2018 Steve Ott Recipes, Video

This one-pot dish originated in Tunisia and is a great way to use up your end of season peppers and tomatoes In this video the Kitchen Garden team take you through how to prepare a delicious and warming meal for a cold autumnal day. The following recipe for Shakshuka will serve four people, take ten minutes to prepare and thirty…

WINDOWSILL WONDERS

25th October 2018 Steve Ott Tips and Advice

Green-fingered employees raise charity cash on the office windowsills In 2016 you kindly provided a six month subscription to Kitchen Garden magazine as a prize for a charity event we were running. Two years later your magazine has inspired us to raise more money for charity by turning our office green and growing edible plants on the windowsills at work…

A soup-er way to eat your greens!

18th October 2018 Steve Ott Recipes

The Vegetarian Society is dishing up some comfort grub as we head into the colder months… and you can grow most of the ingredients! When the season of colds and flu is upon us, we all have a favourite comforting dish that makes us feel better. The Vegetarian Society asked its members and supporters for their go-to culinary hugs and…

Oven-roasted Ratatouille

22nd August 2018 Steve Ott Recipes

Here’s a great recipe for a classic dish to help you make use of newly ripened summer greenhouse favourites The secret to a good ratatouille is to make sure the vegetables retain their individuality and a bit of bite. If you’re cooking it on the hob, that really means cooking them in batches – and staying with the pan. Roasting…

Mudketeers diary-Aug 16th 2018

16th August 2018 Steve Ott Recipes

Sungold sensation I love this time of year when my ‘Sungold’ tomatoes are ripening. I have just gone outside and harvested some of these sweet orange cherry tomatoes. They went into the pan already warmed by the sun. To this I added a bit of butter, crushed clove of garlic, a sprinkle of chilli seeds, a chopped mushroom and some…

Green bean salad with red and yellow peppers

12th July 2018 Steve Ott Recipes

This lively summer salad scores on looks as well as taste Ingredients (serves 2) 1 small red pepper, deseeded and sliced 1 small yellow pepper, deseeded and sliced 2 cloves garlic, peeled 2 tbsp olive oil 200g (7oz) French beans, tops removed and cut into 1.5cm (½in) slices on the diagonal 1 tbsp red wine vinegar ½ tsp brown sugar…