Rachel Atkins
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Podcast 57: The Gardens of Eden
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. The Eden Project first opened its doors in 2001 and still maintains its initial purpose to highlight the importance of plants in every aspect…
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Podcast 55: Plugging the gap
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Sowing seeds can be great fun, but there is an alternative that can produce super tasty crops with much less fuss. KG editor Steve…
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Podcast 53: Heritage Carrots
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Who needs bling bling when you can have pure carrot gold? The history of the humble carrot is shrouded in mystery, with rumours, facts…
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Podcast 51: Grow your own Asparagus
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. With Asparagus so expensive to buy, why not invest in growing your own – all you need is a bit of time, space and…
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Podcast 48: Heritage Chillies
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Chillies? Choose heritage. Continuing his series on heritage fruit and veg, Rob Smith shares some of his favourite varieties of chilli and points out…
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Podcast 46: The future of seeds (Post-Brexit)
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. We try to reduce ‘vegetable miles’ by growing our own and buying locally, but often forget that their journey actually starts with the seeds.…
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Podcast 45: Bringing The Joy To Veg Growing
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. A Christmas Eve treat for our listeners – Gardening writer Wendy Pillar violated the rule ‘never meet your heroes’ when she visited veg growing…
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Podcast 41: Super Tubers – Jerusalem Artichokes
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Apart from its infamous gaseous effects on the digestive system, the artichoke is no joke, says Rob Smith. It’s an attractive plant, easy to…
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Podcast 40: Jobs for October and question time
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Greetings from the KG plot! There’s lots to do this month as we all prepare for Autumn and Winter – Martin Fish has the…
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Podcast 39: Dried and tasted
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Drying is one of the oldest methods of preserving fresh produce, and for the gardener it offers convenience, reliability and speed. Written by Benedict…
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Podcast 38: Mushroom picking without the mystery
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Foraging expert Geoff Dann explains how by doing your homework you can gather wild mushrooms with safety. Read by Rachel Atkins. Fungi foraging can…
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Podcast 37: Trouble-free tomatoes
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. From cracked or slow-ripening fruits to no fruits at all, blight-battered foliage or an outbreak of whitefly – a lot can go awry with…
