The latest tips, guides, features & news from the UK’s number 1 grow your own magazine.
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Lockdown SOS (Save our swans)
In-house Event Stafford Classic Bike Show is coming! October 12-13, 2024 | Get your tickets now! Lockdown leaves the UK’s ducks and swans at risk of starvation – here’s how you can help. Without intervention, many animals are being left…
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Five ways you can help protect the bees
In-house Event Stafford Classic Bike Show is coming! October 12-13, 2024 | Get your tickets now! We’ve all heard the rhetoric of ‘Save the bees’ time and time again over the years and that statement is as important now as…
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Podcast 81: Grow a salad bar
In-house Event Stafford Classic Bike Show is coming! October 12-13, 2024 | Get your tickets now! The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Watery iceberg lettuce and under-ripe tomatoes, anyone? Not…
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Visit the virtual Niwaki stand at Chelsea!
In-house Event Stafford Classic Bike Show is coming! October 12-13, 2024 | Get your tickets now! You can’t visit the company’s stand for real this year… but there’s lots you can do to enjoy what the Japanese firm has to…
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Vegebag announced as RHS Chelsea Garden Product of the Year
In-house Event Stafford Classic Bike Show is coming! October 12-13, 2024 | Get your tickets now! First virtual show bags a stylish winner! The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) announced the winner of the prestigious RHS Chelsea Garden Product of the…
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Terry Walton hosts Q&A at the Virtual Village Hall
In-house Event Stafford Classic Bike Show is coming! October 12-13, 2024 | Get your tickets now! TV and radio gardening guru Terry Walton to host live-stream question and answer session Terry has been a keen gardener and allotment grower since…
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Merrygold’ Tomato
In-house Event Stafford Classic Bike Show is coming! October 12-13, 2024 | Get your tickets now! First blight resistant orange tomato naming competition – the result! The Burpee Seeds Europe team ran a competition last month together with Mr Fothergill’s…
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Kitchen Garden magazine is a number one hit!
In-house Event Stafford Classic Bike Show is coming! October 12-13, 2024 | Get your tickets now! Kitchen Garden magazine is the most popular magazine on isubscribe, the UK’s largest subscription marketplace. Kitchen Garden, one of the nation’s favourite gardening magazines,…
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Mudketeers diary – 6th May 2020
In-house Event Stafford Classic Bike Show is coming! October 12-13, 2024 | Get your tickets now! Young lettuce planted out In April I sowed some lettuce in cell trays filled with multi-purpose compost. It is a good way to start…
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Pests and diseases
Enemy number one for most vegetable growers, slugs and snails, love damp conditions and thrive in a warm, wet summer.
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Podcast 80: What Have we Been Sowing?
In-house Event Stafford Classic Bike Show is coming! October 12-13, 2024 | Get your tickets now! The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. This week the Kitchen Garden team are back…
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Growing undercover
The vast majority of popular fruit and vegetable crops can be grown outside in the UK; however our growing season is relatively short and can be quite variable weather-wise to say the least.