Alex Bestwick
-
5 ways to prepare your garden before going on holiday
It can be hard to leave your garden when all those spring-sown goodies need your attention. But as KG editor Steve Ott shows, it is possible to have a holiday and come back to a thriving garden
-
July 2024
The latest issue of the UK’s best-selling growing your own magazine is brimming with all the best tips, tricks, advice and ideas for growing your own fruit and veg.
-
Peppers in grow bags
KG editor, Steve Ott is growing his peppers in bottomless pots over growing bags this year. In this video he shares this simple planting technique, which gives the plants a bit more root room and means a bit less watering…
-
Summer sowing of kale
In June or July you can sow some kale to provide delicious and nutritious harvests all winter. You can sow in a seedbed first which is an area of soil where you germinate the seeds and nurture the young plants…
-
June 2024
The latest issue of the UK’s best-selling growing your own magazine is brimming with all the best tips, tricks, advice and ideas for growing your own fruit and veg.
-
What tomato varieties are we growing in 2024?
Emma, Steve, and Tony share some of the tomato varieties they’re growing this year, including old favourites and others they’re trying for the first time!
-
Planting soft fruit (gooseberry & blackcurrant bushes)
KG editor Steve Ott has been busy planting some new gooseberry and blackcurrant bushes. Pot-grown plants can be planted all-year-round and Steve was chuffed to find some superstore bargains!
-
Growing potatoes in bags
Growing in bags is a great space-saving way to get the flavour of new potatoes from home-grown spuds. KG editor Steve Ott brings you an update on his crop.
-
Pot grown onions – an update
It’s so easy to grow onions in pots. KG editor Steve Ott explains how to go about it.
-
How to plant melons
The variety of melon is ‘Minnesota Midget’ which produces numerous small fruits on each plant. The plants were sown in April and are being planted out into the polytunnel in mid-May.
-
The recipe for gardening success…?
Trying to grow your own fruit and veg? We know the recipe for success!
-
Potato growing trial: which way wins?
Emma plants first early potatoes ‘Arran Pilot’ three different ways. One was placing tubers straight on top of the soil and covering with just grass cuttings. The second was planting the tubers on top of the soil and covering with…
