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Rare finch causes hearts to flutter

16th November 2017 Steve Ott News

The hawfinch has landed! Find out more about this shy bird, and extra news just for subscribers, in our latest Subs Club for November Year of the hawfinch Above: A rare hawfinch. Picture: Andy Hay (rspb-images.com) Last year saw a ‘waxwing winter’; this year it’s the turn of the lesser-known hawfinch. The UK’s largest finch, it has a massive, parrot-like…

Take a leaf out of the Wyevale Garden Centres Bulb Book

24th October 2017 Steve Ott News

The Bulb Book is a collection of top tips to make the most of bulbing season this year from Wyevale Garden Centres bulb expert Patrick Wall 1 Choose wisely Ask yourself the following questions: what sort of colours do I want in my garden? Am I looking to just grow flowers or do I want to start a vegetable patch?…

Podcast 20: Jobs for the month – June

9th June 2017 Rachel Atkins Podcast

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 broad beans, planting leek seedlings plus much more!…

Heritage Group Seeks Four Passionate Culture Mulchers!

19th May 2017 Steve Ott News

Cumbria’s Living Heritage – a cluster group of 34 engaging heritage attractions, great houses and museums – is offering an exquisite opportunity for anyone with green fingers and a love of gardens. The group has devised a quirky ‘Culture Mulchers’ contest that will allow four different garden enthusiasts to not only get outdoors with spade, trowel and secateurs, but also…

Humidity boosted 2016 pests and diseases

6th April 2017 Steve Ott News

A hot, moist 2016 saw the rise of humidity-loving pests and diseases, says the RHS Gardening Advice Service. Slug and snails generated a record number of enquiries and regained the number one pest spot, which they’ve occupied in eight of the past 10 years. Fuchsia gall mite moved five places up the table, from eighth in 2015 to third in…

Mudketeers diary-March 30th 2017

30th March 2017 Emma Rawlings Blog

Time to plant potatoes The seed potatoes are nicely chitted and even look quite pretty. On the left are dark shoots of ‘Arran Pilot’. On the right are the bright green shoots of ‘Vivaldi’ a second early. The little shoots are strong and sturdy having kept the seed potatoes in a frost-free light greenhouse. The tubers are ready to go…

How to Care for an Olive Tree

2nd March 2017 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews, Tips and Advice

Add a touch of Mediterranean glamour to your home – with an olive tree. While the weather in the UK may leave little to be desired at the best of times, there is one way to add a touch of Mediterranean glamour to your home; with an olive tree. Adding an unquestionably beautiful touch to your garden, these trees not…

New stunning Zinnia ‘Lilliput Purple’

22nd February 2017 Steve Ott News

Zinnia ‘Lilliput Purple’ has abundant, small and perfectly formed pompom flowers on strong, medium height, perfect-for-cutting stems. Thrive is celebrating a new partnership with Chiltern Seeds which is selling a stunning new Zinnia ‘Lilliput Purple’ in aid of the charity, which uses gardening to help people with disabilities and ill health. With 2017 being named ‘Year of the Zinnia’ Chiltern…

Gardener’s tales of Beatles filming at Chiswick House gardens 50 years ago

10th May 2016 Steve Ott News

50 years since The Beatles filmed two ground breaking music videos in Chiswick House grounds. It was 50 years ago today … May 20th, 1966, that the four most famous people on the planet strolled into a public park in West London to create two ground-breaking mini films which were to change the course of music history. And Chiswick House…

Why chives?

12th April 2016 Tony Flanagan Blog, Tips and Advice

Chives are not only great in the kitchen but they’re a truly beautiful herb when left to flower I do get impatient waiting for spring onions to mature so I tend to use chives in salads instead. They’re easy to cultivate and, as a perennial herb, they’re there for cutting year on year. If you have a herb patch, the…

Roasted Lemon Asparagus

11th April 2016 Anna Pettigrew Recipes

A healthy and easy side dish of fresh asparagus, perfect to serve alongside many main courses. SERVES 4 • 1 bunch of asparagus • 1 lemon, sliced • 1 tbsp olive oil • Salt and pepper to taste 1. Preheat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 6. 2. Prep asparagus shoots, and arrange them together with the lemon slices on a lined…

Growing Cucumbers (with Sea Spring Seeds)

11th March 2016 Steve Ott Advertising Features, Reviews, Tips and Advice

Cucumbers are as versatile as they are delicious, lending themselves well to pickling, eating raw in salads and even cooking. Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) are heat-loving vegetables best adapted to the warmest part of the year. They are members of the Cucurbitaceae family – which also includes pumpkins, courgettes and melons – and their viny plants are grown for the crunchy,…

New Microgreens To Try

2nd March 2016 Steve Ott Reviews

The selection of fast-growing microgreens just got even bigger with these new introductions for 2016 If your forward planning for spring 2016 wasn’t all it might have been, seedling salad crops offer a quick way of closing the ‘hungry gap’. Alongside the wide range of leaf crops that you can grow as microgreens, there are some intriguing new contenders to…

Pennard Plants and Roots and Shoots celebrate Kipling’s 150th anniversary

13th May 2015 Steve Ott News

“This should really be the goodwill garden,” says Roots and Shoots Director Linda Philips of the Rudyard Kipling inspired garden the London charity is creating in the Grand Pavilion at Chelsea Flower Show with Pennard Plants. #Chelsea #Garden #Horticulture “It’s built on many thousands of pounds of goodwill and generosity and very little money, £5,740 to be exact. Not your…