Emma Rawlings

  • Cheers… KG’s team celebrates!

    Cheers… KG’s team celebrates!

    Steve, Emma and Tony raised a glass in the summer… now they’re celebrating success at the Garden Media Guild Awards. Challenging how we garden, getting your nature fix and food security – all top trends at the gardening ‘Oscars’ held…

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  • Video: Clothing to Keep Warm This Winter

    Video: Clothing to Keep Warm This Winter

    Tony, Emma and Steve give you a review and recommendation of three products that could help you this winter.

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  • Mudketeers diary-19th April 2017

    Mudketeers diary-19th April 2017

    What hungry gap? April and May are months often referred to as the ‘Hungry Gap’ in veg gardening. It is a time when the winter veg is used up and the summer crops are still but seeds! I looked at…

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  • Mudketeers diary-6th April 2017

    Mudketeers diary-6th April 2017

    Transplanted tomatoes The greenhouse is filling up fast. I have just transplanted my ‘Sungold’ tomatoes and lots of other seedlings are needing transplanting too. They always say you never have a big enough greenhouse

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  • Emma’s three broc pot

    Emma’s three broc pot

    Try this recipe for deputy editor Emma’s simple but tasty dish using home-grown broccoli fresh from the plot This is a delicious one pot broccoli pasta dish using three different types of broccoli. One is the very seasonal purple sprouting…

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  • Mudketeers diary-March 30th 2017

    Mudketeers diary-March 30th 2017

    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…

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  • Mudketeers diary -March 27th 2017

    Mudketeers diary -March 27th 2017

    Hail the kale I sowed some ‘Nero di Toscana’ kale late last summer and planted about five tiny young plants in a large pot filled with multi-purpose compost. I placed the pot in a greenhouse overwinter and the plants sat…

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  • Moveable feast

    Moveable feast

    Living in rented accommodation or just don’t have a big garden? Container fruit and veg growing is the perfect solution If you live in rented accommodation you sometimes don’t feel like putting down roots but growing in containers means you…

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  • Bag up some herbs

    Bag up some herbs

    Quick and easy projects for beginners This is a really simple cheap mini hanging veg garden made from an upcycled a Kitchen Garden Goody bag (sold at Harrogate Flower Shows. Come and visit us this year April 20-23). With a…

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  • Mudketeers Diary – Feb 9th 2017

    Mudketeers Diary – Feb 9th 2017

    Welcome to the Mudketeers Diary, find out what the team are up to on the plot. Feb 9th 2017 I sowed some sweet peas today. I like to grow these among my beans. I could have sown them in autumn…

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  • Limited-edition vases for Unwins customers

    Limited-edition vases for Unwins customers

    Unwins is linking up with pottery designer Emma Bridgewater to offer customers the chance to own 1 of 1,000 limited-edition sweet pea vases. Seed retailer Unwins is linking up with pottery designer Emma Bridgewater to offer customers the chance to…

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  • Hilarity on the Plot…

    Hilarity on the Plot…

    Steve, Emma and Tony know how to have a laugh on the allotment.  The Great Kitchen Garden Secateurs Challenge of 2016 Find out what this Western-style shoot out is all about in the June issue of Kitchen Garden… The Kitchen…

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