Jobs For The Month

  • Video: Jobs for December

    Video: Jobs for December

    It may almost be Christmas, but there are still jobs you can be doing in your garden or plot.  Here’s a reminder on what you could be doing, including weeding garlic, replanting leeks and digging in green manure. For more…

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  • Podcast 67: Jobs for November

    Podcast 67: Jobs for November

    The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. There is so much to do in the garden and on the plot in November. Steve, Emma and Tony talk about tidying old crops,…

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  • Video: On the Plot – October

    Video: On the Plot – October

    Welcome to our monthly round-up of what we’ve got up to on the plot.  This month we’ve been sowing broad beans, harvesting squashes and reviewing garden loppers. We also give advice on how you can prevent leek moth! For more…

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  • Video: Jobs for October

    Video: Jobs for October

    It’s October and there’s plenty of jobs you can be doing on the plot. There are many jobs including sowing broad beans, harvesting squashes, clearing foliage and carving pumpkins. Here are some tips and advice on how to approach them.…

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  • Podcast 30: Jobs for the month – January

    Podcast 30: Jobs for the month – January

    The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Happy new year! Welcome to a wonderful new year of growing your own fruit and veg. What could be more exciting than the prospect…

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  • Podcast 20: Jobs for the month – June

    Podcast 20: Jobs for the month – June

    The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Welcome to episode 20! Rachel Atkins talks you though tasks for your vegetable patch in June, including protect pea shoots, cut asparagus, pinch out…

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  • This month in Kitchen Garden – July 2017

    This month in Kitchen Garden – July 2017

    In the July issue – Recipes, melons, liquid feeds, herbal harvest, weedkillers, giveaways worth over £1665 plus much more! Although there is plenty to do in the garden this month it’s also important to take some time out to relax…

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  • This month in Kitchen Garden – June 2017

    This month in Kitchen Garden – June 2017

    Turn up the taste! This is is packed with hints and tips on watering and feeding to improve the flavour of your crops. It’s time to start sowing those tender crops for growing outside or in the polytunnel and greenhouse.…

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  • Podcast 4: July 2016 Jobs this month on the veg patch

    Podcast 4: July 2016 Jobs this month on the veg patch

    The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast is here, packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. July 2016: Ten minute jobs, harvest broad beans, feed asparagus, net brassicas, pick mangetout, thin apples and much more!

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  • Pollinating indoor strawberries

    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

    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

    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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