Gardening
Kitchen Garden
A wildlife pond is born
Jane Kelly finally got round to making her own pond in the hope that it would attract a variety of wildlife. And it did!
5 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
UNDER COVER
HARVEST WINTER SALADS - Winter salads, whether they have been growing outside, on a windowsill or under cover in the garden, will be starting to grow faster as the day length increases. Regular picking of the outer leaves helps to keep the plants healthy and producing for much longer.
3 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
HERB OF THE MONTH: SAGE ADVICE
Sage has been an important culinary and medicinal herb for centuries but it also comes in a range of leaf colours that makes it a real treat for the eyes (and nose) in borders and pots
4 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
CREATING A POTAGER GARDEN
Creating vegetable beds in patterns with dividing pathways can be an attractive and practical way to grow. Emma Rawlings offers some tips on making a potager
3 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
SOW EASY
Are you ready for spring? It all starts with those seeds and the more we can do to improve germination rates, the better our chances for a bumper season. Benedict Vanheems offers some advice to help you up your sowing success
7 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
OUR TOP PLOTTERS
Last summer we launched a competition to find our Top Plotters, with the top three winning some great prizes and the chance to be featured in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we meet our second-placed pair
3 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
SEPTEMBER SPECIALS
This month, with sweetcorn, figs and blackberries on the menu, Anna Cairns Pettigrew is not only serving up something sweet and something savoury, but all things scrumptious
5 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
FLAVOURSOME FRUIT AUTUMN RASPBERRIES
September - is it late summer or the start of autumn? David Patch ponders the question and says whatever the season, it's time to harvest autumn raspberries
5 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
SOW GREEN THIS AUTUMN
Covering the soil with a green manure in winter offers many benefits and this is a good time to sow hardy types, says KG editor Steve Ott
5 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
A HISTORICAL HAVEN OF FRUIT AND FLOWERS
KG's Martin Fish takes time out from his own plot to visit a walled garden in Lincolnshire which has been home to the same family for more than 400 years
5 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
RESTORING THE BALANCE
The phrase regenerative gardening is often heard in gardening circles, but what is it? Can it help you to grow better veg? Ecologist Becky Searle thinks so, and tells us why
4 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shares his expertise on using compost made from green bin collections with handy tips on getting the right consistency and quality
3 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
Celebrating Organic September!
In this special section we bring you four great features aimed at improving your crops and allowing nature to thrive
5 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
SEEING RED
Do your tomatoes have a habit of remaining stubbornly green? Or perhaps you're lucky to enjoy lots of lovely fruits - just all at once. Either way, Benedict Vanheems is here with some top tips to ripen and process the nation's favourite summer staple
6 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
NEW KIDS ON THE BROCCOLI!
Rob Smith is talking broccoli this month with a review of the different types available and suggestions for some exciting new varieties to try
5 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
A NEW kitchen garden
Martin Fish is getting down to plenty of picking and planting on the garden veg plot, while Jill is rustling up something pepper-licking good!
5 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH
Meet another of the 12 creative and talented gardeners selected as our Plotter of the Month winners last year. Why not make a note to enter our new competition? Details on page 25
2 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
QUESTION TIME
GOT A FRUIT OR VEG PROBLEM? ASK KG FOR HELP
3 min |
September 2024
Kitchen Garden
PICK STRAWBERRIES - FOR HOME-GROWN FLAVOUR
When it comes to getting value for money and the best flavour, strawberries are hard to beat, says fruit expert David Patch
6 min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
A GARDEN FOR EVERYONE!
This month Hannah Reid shares her experience of redesigning a garden for those with a range of disabilities and how it has benefited them
4 min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
ROOM TO GROW
We meet Rhiannon Alcock from Devon, whose plot provides a place to relax and learn. It also inspired a wonderful community project growing produce for local food banks
10+ min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
Just how much food?
Top organic gardening influencer Huw Richards explains how to maximise the pickings from growing spaces big and small
3 min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
PREDATORS ON YOUR PLOT
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld explores the range of beneficial predators that you can encourage into your garden, keeping pests at bay
3 min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
GIVE THEM A HELPING HAND
Some of our most popular crops come from much warmer climes and need a little extra TLC before being exposed to the UK's changeable conditions. Editor Steve Ott offers some top tips to help get them off to a great start
3 min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
Digging for tomorrow
Encouragement to grow your own is being passed on to the next generation, as Sally Clifford discovered when she visited a former Dig for Victory site in the historic city of York
4 min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
MAKE YOUR OWN GIN GARDEN
Become a gin genius by growing your own key ingredients. Becky Searle shows you how
5 min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
KNOW YOUR ROOTS
Maincrop roots are a staple of autumn and, with care, should last well into winter too. Don't miss your opportunity to start them! Benedict Vanheems shares his tips to keep the larder stocked with nourishing, home-grown roots
8 min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
SOMETHING FOR THE WINTER
This month 'squashbuckler' Rob Smith takes a look at winter squash varieties - old, new, coming soon and something different with advice on sowing, growing, harvesting and storing
5 min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
OUR PLOTTERS OF THE MONTH
Our annual competition to find Britain's best plotters always attracts a great response. This month we meet a talented gardening couple from Norfolk who just love life on the allotment
3 min |
June 2024
Kitchen Garden
A NEW kitchen garden!
Martin Fish has been busy sowing, planting and keeping an eye out for pests, while Jill has been making pancakes to have with a delicious strawberry compote
5 min |