Potatoes
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Video: A Review of Potato Bags
A popular way to grow Potatoes is to use potato bags or growing pots. In this video, Steve gives a review of a particularly clever pot. For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below: www.youtube.com/kitchengardenmagazine
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Celebrate Edible Britain for National Gardening Week 2019
Encouraging everyone to grow-your-own is the theme of this year’s National Gardening Week (29 April–5 May 2019) The nation’s biggest celebration of gardening returns for 2019 from Monday 29 April to Sunday 5 May 2019 as the Royal Horticultural Society…
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Kitchen Garden Best Buy and Top Picks
Here are our favourite gardening products for March, chosen for their quality, effectiveness and value for money. BEST BUY POTATO GROWING POTS This pack of three pots offers a unique system of growing potatoes, with a standard outer pot and…
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CHRISTMAS LEFTOVERS: WHICH ARE SUITABLE FOR BIRDS?
We have lots of festive leftovers at this time of year, but not all should be given to the birds, wildlife specialists CJ Wildlife explain Birds delight us with year-round visits and fun antics, plus their own wild food supplies…
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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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Students encouraged to veg out
Can cook, will cook! Students are proving they can prepare more than just beans on toast… The University of Manchester welcomed 8000 new students last month with a gift of a night vegging out with their flatmates. In partnership with…
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Don’t bring back a souvenir plant disease
An survey has found that millions of plants could be entering the UK in holidaymakers’ luggage, increasing the risk of pests and diseases Of the 57% of respondents to the RHS survey who were planning to travel abroad in the…
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Podcast 36: Recorded live at Easton Walled Garden
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. The KG team went to Easton Walled Gardens near Grantham in Lincolnshire to film their videos for the forthcoming August issue. Join them as…
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It’s okay to drone on…
Find out why in the latest collection of unusual tales for Subs Club members only! Counting on drones With apologies to citizen scientists: a University of Adelaide study has shown that when it comes to wildlife counts, technology can sometimes…
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Reap the rewards of getting children into gardening
Gardening is the perfect way for children to learn new skills, have fun and to be creative, whatever their age. Studies have shown that children are more likely to perform better at school, develop healthier eating habits and an interest…
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Mudketeers diary-13th March 2018
Spuddy marvellous The seed potatoes are sprouting nicely. I had them in the porch for a while as I thought the greenhouse was too cold for them. I have just put them out in the greenhouse to encourage nice stout,…
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Podcast 33: Grow your own tea!
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. In episode 33, Steve, Emma and Tony take a look at adding colour to your garden with dahlias, growing your own tea, salad varieties…
