Shoots
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Grow your own: Asparagus
Asparagus is one of the few perennial vegetables (those which come up year after year) and is one of the most highly prized –a true delicacy.
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Grow your own: Broccoli
Broccoli is a highly nutritious vegetable that is a must for the veg patch. You will really notice the difference in flavour of your own grown broccoli and, being so fresh, it will contain even more vitamins and health giving…
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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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Grow your own: Garlic
It’s either loved or hated but whatever your view garlic is certainly popular… and until you have tasted your own grown you won’t believe that it can be so much better than shop bought.
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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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Small space growing
If you don’t have a lot of room to grow, there are many ways to maximise crops from tiny places. Emma Rawlings suggests some ideas. Edible corner This picture shows that in a small sunny corner you can create something…
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National Beanpole Week 2020
In these troubling times, there has never been a greater need to make use of our outdoor space and create something positive Gardeners and coppice workers nationwide are getting ready for National Beanpole Week – despite the pressures coronavirus is…
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Grow your own veg fast
In these uncertain times lots of people are having the urge to start growing their own veg. Why not have a go at microgreen growing tasty nutritious veg in a matter of days. Microgreens are veg harvested while still only…
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Mudketeer’s diary- 20th February 2020
Chitting potatoes I have just bought my seed potatoes. I bought first earlies ‘Foremost’, second earlies ‘Charlotte’ and some main crop ‘Pink Fir Apple’. I have put them in seed trays and placed in athe greenhouse to encourage the chits,…
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Spring’s crowning glory
It’s National Asparagus Day on April 23, so to celebrate, why not make space for some crowns in your garden, says KG editor, Steve Ott At this time of year we are all in the process of filling our plots…
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Spectacular show by rare Chinese tree in the UK
Heatwave brings on the blooms of a rare tree that has only previously flowered three times in its 90-year lifetime Emmenopterys henryi, a deciduous tree that’s native to central and south-western China, planted in 1928 at Borde Hill in Haywards…
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Pea shoot, lettuce and Cheshire cheese salad
Want something quick and tasty? Try this delicious home-grown early season salad Pea shoots and other microgreens can give you a harvest in less time than it takes for outdoor crops to germinate. Add an overwintered lettuce and you have…
