Raised Beds
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Grow your own: Cucumbers
The traditional long, smooth cucumbers need to be grown in awarm, almost hot, humid atmosphere so require greenhouse or polytunnel conditions.
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Perfect planters and raised beds to make the most of small spaces
Raised beds and planters can be spotted in most veg gardens and even most casual gardens these days, whether for ease of use, aesthetics or to utilise smaller spaces more efficiently.
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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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Perfect Polytunnels and Glorious Greenhouses- All you need for undercover
Shopping for a Polytunnel or Greenhouse? No problem, Kitchen Garden has a great selection to help you find the perfect cover. Premier Polytunnels With the development of new polythene covers it is possible to grow all kinds of crops and…
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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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Starting the veg patch
You can start a veg patch almost any time if you have a nice piece of bare soil. However, if you are starting from scratch and the area is still lawn or very weedy this is best treated with a…
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Beat the boredom with these fantastic gardening products!
A lot of us may be confined to our homes for now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t beat the boredom with these fantastic gardening products… Dovetail Greenhouses Price: Varied From their workshop in Staffordshire, Dovetail Greenhouses specialise in designing…
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Plant Labels
Kitchen Garden Best Buy and Top Picks for March. This month the KG team have been looking at different plant label options BEST BUY MOULDED PLANT LABELS These British made moulded plant labels are made from 90% recycled plastic. They…
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Podcast 63: Growing with raised beds
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Steve, Emma and Tony chat about the benefits of raised beds – a great way of keeping your vegetable plot contained and they can…
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Join the Raised Bed Revolution
Raised beds are the answer to many gardeners’ problems making gardening easier, accessible, more productive and available to all. Gardening Works Wooden Raised Beds are available in different sizes and heights making them user friendly for children, the elderly and…
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Popular deterrents slug it out – but to no avail
Slimy pests still find ways to munch on our crops, the RHS discovers. Subs Club subscribers, read on… A study by the RHS has sadly found five popular remedies to be entirely ineffective in deterring slugs and snails. Copper tape,…
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Time to slug it out…
Gardeners’ favourite slug deterrents are in focus in the first Subs Club offering for June, specially for subscribers to Kitchen Garden. Home slug remedies get scientific trial Egg shells, copper tape and other home remedies traditionally used by gardeners to…
