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‘Musical’ plants the talk of the town!
Only Easter Sunday brings more people onto the streets of Milan than the city’s famous Design Week, the Fuorisalone. Over seven days every designer worth their salt vies to showcase the wackiest designs and most glamorous products – but never…
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Your indoor salad bar – all year round
There is a simple way to enjoy home-grown salads all year long and that is by growing sprouting seeds. KG editor Steve Ott explains. With all the food shortages in the supermarkets at the moment and, as I write this,…
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My Pacific Isle
KG reader Peter Dean dreams of an island holiday away from the cold winter rain I entered a competition In a gardening magazine. I had to write a poem About a garden I had seen. I chose a lovely garden…
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The Cold of Winter
By KG reader, Peter Dean In winter it is especially important for gardeners to look after birds and other wildlife. When temperatures fall to single Celsius figures wildlife is more vulnerable. They need extra food to survive. Leaving seed heads…
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A tomato update
The tomato (and pepper) season has seemed a little slow to me this year with germination being a bit erratic and subsequent growth slow. But as always the plants come through in the end and now that they are planted…
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Time to sow tender veggies
If you haven’t done it already, now’s the time to sow things like courgettes, pumpkins, cucumbers and other squashes. I always wait till now (mid-May) as I don’t have a heated greenhouse and although it’s plenty warm enough during the…
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Undercover salads
If you have an empty border of soil in the greenhouse and don’t grow tomatoes or peppers in it you could always sow salad leaves in short rows. Pictured are sowings of radish ‘Rioja’ which is often used as a…
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LIVE Q&A with the Kitchen Garden team
To celebrate National Allotment Week, we’re giving you the chance to ask our team of experts for their top tips and advice for getting the tastiest produce from your plot!
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We’re looking for Bloggers/Vloggers for new Kitchen Garden series!
We’re looking for bloggers and vloggers to be a part of our ‘Growing on the Web’ series in the magazine and it would be great to have YOU on board!
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A natural summer garden
Kitchen Garden reader Peter Dean, of Cambridge, sent us this item about the joys of a summer garden. This is a reader blog and views expressed by Peter may not necessarily reflect those of the magazine. Summer is the season…
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MUDKETEER’S DIARY- 21st July 2020
Lifting garlic My brother harvested the garlic today as the shoots were going a little yellow. They are a good size considering they were only planted in spring. They were put in at the beginning of March and have been…
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MUDKETEER’S DIARY- 2nd July 2020
Oh deer! We discovered today the very tips of the French beans have been eaten.Some of the stalks hadn’t been nibbled off cleanly but had been ripped slightly. This was consistent with muntjac dear damage. Sure enough close by we…
