Spinach
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How to grow your own plant-based protein this Veganuary
Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian or just trying to cut down your meat and dairy intake, how about growing your own plant-based protein?
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Grow your own: Spinach
Spinach is a crop is not hugely popular as a cooked vegetable but the young leaves are used more in salads now.
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What to cook with leafy greens
Looking for inspiration of what to cook with your leafy greens? We’ve collected together some delicious recipes for you to try out…
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Podcast 85: The Splendours of Spinach
Spinach is one of the most nutritious of crops and if you’re clever with what varieties you grow and where you grow it, spinach can be cropped on the plot for 12 months of the year! Rob Smith offers his…
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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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Improve your mood, sow some food
It is difficult right now if you are confined to your home so why not start growing your own food. It’s a great stress-buster In these uncertain times a lot of people are having a strong desire to grow their…
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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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Video: How to Grow Spinach | Episode Two
In our second episode on how to grow Spinach, Steve shares some more advice on what to do as the crop grows. For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below: www.youtube.com/kitchengardenmagazine
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Video: How to Sow Spinach
Steve shares some advice about Spinach varieties and shows how to sow it. For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below: www.youtube.com/kitchengardenmagazine
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Companion Planting
Top tips for growing complementary seasonal produce from The Greenhouse People There’s nothing better than growing your own organic fruit and veg. National Allotments Week (14 – 20th August) seems like the perfect time to look at the ways we…
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Indian-style spinach with new potatoes
This is based on the classic sag aloo, which is my favourite use for copious quantities of spinach. This summertime version of the recipe uses new potatoes and adds the spinach towards the end of the cooking time for a…
