Tips and Advice
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Grow with KG
The perfect pocket-sized guide to your garden, Grow with KG is the perfect accompaniment for any Kitchen Garden reader – out now! We’ve made it easier than ever to have all the information you need this season at your (green)…
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Pollinating indoor strawberries
If you’ve been growing strawberries under cover, don’t forget you can help with their pollination It’s April and the strawberries in my polytunnel are starting to flower, which is great! However, although strawberries are self-fertile (which means they are self-pollinating)…
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VIDEO: Sowing Sweetcorn in Rootrainers
Soil temperature might still be too cold for sowing outside, so why not use rootrainers and germinate them in a greenhouse in mid-April? Thank you to Crowders.co.uk for supplying us with these great Haxnicks Rootrainers for filming! You can purchase…
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VIDEO: Sowing Courgettes
Courgettes are a great crop for beginners: easy to grow, heavy cropping and great in pots. Watch to find out how to get started…
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Sowing Carrots
Here are a few tips you might find useful for sowing carrots The main sowing period is March through to June, though I have sown in July too with good results Don’t sow in soil that has been freshly manured…
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Carolina Reaper’: too hot to handle?
So why grow the world’s hottest chilli? Well, a bit like climbing Mount Everest, ‘cos it’s there! Well here’s a chilli that needs some careful handling…literally. The ‘Carolina Reaper’ is the hottest chilli in the world. Chillies are one of…
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The Millipede: Friend or Foe?
Here’s a little creature you’re bound to come across as you work the soil, so what should you do when you find one? You will often find these little beauties in the soil. They are thinnish (compared to grubs), brown,…
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What’s in a hoe?
In addition to Dutch hoes, there are plenty of other types on the market but which one is best for you? SpeedhoePersonally, I think it’s hard to beat a Dutch hoe for weeding, especially between rows. A lot depends on…
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Recycle your compost bags
Don’t throw your compost bags away, you can use them for container growing, especially early potatoes…. Compost bags are ideal as containers for growing early potatoes. So here’s how to do it: Roll the sides of each bag down half…
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Handy Hacks for your Garden
We’ve teamed up with the friendly folk at Crowders.co.uk to bring you regular garden hack videos! Turn your average milk bottle into a watering can… Get recycling – sow sweetcorn in toilet roll tubes! Re-purpose old bean canes and pegs…
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Why chives?
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…
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VIDEO: Constructing Bean Frames
This month, The Three Mudketeers demonstrate how to put together bean frames in true comedy fashion.
