Peppers
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Grow your own: Peppers
There are two types of pepper, or capsicum, to give them their proper name. There are the chilli peppers and the sweet peppers, the latter being the milder relatives
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Video: Growing Cardinal Peppers in a Self-Watering Plant Pot | Tony’s Plot Diaries
Tony is checking the progress of his sweet peppers in the polytunnel. One of his favourite varieties for it is dark purple colouring is a variety called ‘Cardinal’.
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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.
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Plug plant essentials
Sowing seeds isn’t the only way to raise the plants you need to achieve great harvests. Plug plants offer a convenient alternative to buying seeds, or as away to fill gaps or top up numbers if sowings fail for any…
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Growing in containers
So, what’s a container? This depends on what crops you are growing, for example lettuce and salad leaves can be grown in quite shallow containers. A small trough 17cm (7in) deep and 30cm (12in) long would suffice for a few…
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One to try: Dream Peppers
If you’re looking for a pepper plant that produces lots of fruit, says Tony Flanagan, why not try ‘Lemon Dream’ and ‘Tangerine Dream’? I tend to prefer the larger sweet peppers such as ‘King of the North’ and ‘California Wonder’…
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Sowing Kits
Kitchen Garden Best Buy and Top Picks for April. This month the KG team have been looking at sowing kits and more… BEST BUY SEED SOWING STARTER KIT This sowing kit comes with a five litre bag of vermiculite, a…
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Kitchen Garden Best Buy and Top Picks
Here are our favourite gardening products for July, chosen for their quality, effectiveness and value for money BEST BUY SALAD PLANTER This salad planter will accommodate 37 litres of compost for growing a wide range of vegetable crops. Feeder mats…
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Video: How to Make Shakshuka
This one-pot dish originated in Tunisia and is a great way to use up your end of season peppers and tomatoes In this video the Kitchen Garden team take you through how to prepare a delicious and warming meal for…
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WINDOWSILL WONDERS
Green-fingered employees raise charity cash on the office windowsills In 2016 you kindly provided a six month subscription to Kitchen Garden magazine as a prize for a charity event we were running. Two years later your magazine has inspired us…
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A soup-er way to eat your greens!
The Vegetarian Society is dishing up some comfort grub as we head into the colder months… and you can grow most of the ingredients! When the season of colds and flu is upon us, we all have a favourite comforting…
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Oven-roasted Ratatouille
Here’s a great recipe for a classic dish to help you make use of newly ripened summer greenhouse favourites The secret to a good ratatouille is to make sure the vegetables retain their individuality and a bit of bite. If…
