Gardening

  • Video: Tried and Tested – Garden Scissors

    Video: Tried and Tested – Garden Scissors

    This month the team are testing a range of garden scissors! This month’s product review features three different pairs of garden scissors. For each pair, the team demonstrate their purpose and say whether or not they’re worth buying. To see…

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  • Video: Winter Care of Your Soil

    Video: Winter Care of Your Soil

    Steve takes you through the best ways to care for your soil in the winter!  The products shown in the video can help ensure your soil has all the nutrients, plus they work for the no dig method too. For…

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  • Video: Daucus’ Halloween Hijinks

    Video: Daucus’ Halloween Hijinks

    This Halloween, Daucus is back making trouble in the Kitchen Garden plot!  Daucus plays a game of ten pin bowling with the pumpkin and butternut squashes. If you like the video, why not try this game for yourself? Grow a…

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  • This month in Kitchen Garden

    This month in Kitchen Garden

    Take a look at what’s in the latest issue – July 2016 – plus what you can expect online and in our interactive digital magazine! A message from Steve Ott… The growing season is in full swing and we can…

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  • Pickled Rainbow Chard

    Pickled Rainbow Chard

    Magical chard stems have just as much flavour as the leaves. Lucy Burton shares her recipe for pickled rainbow stems  Luscious, sturdy chard is a staple of many vegetable patches. Adaptable to a range of soil acidities and resilient to…

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  • Asparagus and Wild Garlic Frittata

    Asparagus and Wild Garlic Frittata

    As British asparagus season dawns, Lucy Burton shares her recipe for frittata success, and a quick and easy lunch to boot  Delicate asparagus, in its luscious green glory, likes to keep us guessing. Unlike the more reliable staples of the…

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  • Spring spectacular at beautiful Batsford Arboretum

    Spring spectacular at beautiful Batsford Arboretum

    Batsford Arboretum is living proof it’s not just for autumn – it’s in the spring the wild garden really comes into its own. The Fuji cherries – a mountain variety of Japanese cherry – kick-start the blossom displays from late…

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  • Ornamental Onion: Flower Bulb Of The Year

    Ornamental Onion: Flower Bulb Of The Year

    Did you know that onions aren’t just good to eat but that the ornamental ones are pretty as well?  The large onion family has established itself not only in the kitchen. Some of them – the ornamental onions – are…

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