Gardening
Kitchen Garden
A tuber full of potential!
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shares his advice for growing this unusual root vegetable, which can be eaten like a potato
3 min |
March 2024
Kitchen Garden
GARDENING WITH MINIMAL DISTURBANCE
Gardening is about balance, says Huw Richards. This month he explains the underlying principles that inform his approach to gardening
4 min |
March 2024
Kitchen Garden
PEAT
This month Becky Searle explains why peat and its preservation are so important and offers advice on peat-free composts
4 min |
March 2024
Kitchen Garden
GO EARLY WITH PEAS
Home-grown peas are a taste sensation and they are so easy to grow. Early varieties can be sown from the middle of the month. Here are some of our favourites
1 min |
March 2024
Kitchen Garden
CASH CROPS
Food prices remain inflated, with prices of staples - including fruits and vegetables rocketing over the past few years. So what's to be done? The solution, of course, lies in our own muddy hands, as Benedict Vanheems explains
8 min |
March 2024
Kitchen Garden
POLYECO
THE ULTIMATE GROWING SPACE
1 min |
March 2024
Kitchen Garden
TOMATOES
From garden classics to modern marvels, Rob Smith surveys the wonderful world of one of summer's most popular crops
4 min |
March 2024
Kitchen Garden
OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH
Our annual competition to find 12 readers and their plots to appear in Kitchen Garden magazine had a great response. Meet another of this year's creative and talented winners
2 min |
March 2024
Kitchen Garden
Kitchen garden!
This month Martin Fish begins a new series documenting the development of a kitchen garden at Ivy Cottage in Lincolnshire, his and Jill's new home. Plus another tasty recipe from Jill
3 min |
March 2024
Kitchen Garden
OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH
Last year we launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would appear in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Meet another of our creative and talented winners
4 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
CAULIFLOWERS UNCOVERED
More expert advice from Martin Fish on one of the more difficult veg to grow, while Jill serves up a delicious cauliflower and mustard soup
3 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
THE VEG THAT KEEPS ON VEGGING
This month Becky Searle sings the praises of perennial vegetables and encourages you to find a space for them on your plot
5 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
CARROT GOLD
Rooted in tradition, bursting with flavour and with so many varieties to choose from, carrots are a must-grow veg in Rob Smith's garden
5 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
GROWN TO A FINE ART
Fibre artist Emma Davies tells Sally Clifford how growing her own inspires her creations
5 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
LIVING THE DREAM!
A summer temp job at a garden centre was the starting point for Steph Young's journey to veg growing enthusiast and avid Instagrammer
7 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
HERITAGE APPLES A growing legacy
Kirsty Williams visits the heritage fruit tree nursery of Tom Adams and finds a fascinating range of once-forgotten apple varieties now available for the home gardener
4 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
HANDLE WITH CARE
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shares his secrets for success with transplanting seedlings
3 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
LET'S GET SORTED!
This month Jane Kelly considers the range of resources you can call on when planning your garden and recording what you do in it
5 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
Ladybird, ladybird...
If there's something green, sucking leaves and wood, who you gonna call? Well aside from lacewing larvae, parasitic wasps, rove beetles and predatory midges, you might want to call a ladybird. And ask it to bring some friends, says nature watcher
6 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
DIGGING THE DIRT POO BARE
There's something quite malodorous in the air down on John Holloway's allotment site... but maybe that's a good thing
2 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
FLAVOURSOME FRUIT GOOSEBERRIES
Gooseberries may have fallen out of favour but certainly not out of flavour, as fruit expert David Patch explains
6 min |
February 2024
Kitchen Garden
LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR!
Tony Flanagan attempts to navigate his way through the puzzling world of garden law and discovers some interesting facts
2 min |
September 2023
Kitchen Garden
BLUEBERRIES SEASON BY SEASON
Take a walk through the blueberry year with lots of tips and advice from our regular fruit expert David Patch
6 min |
September 2023
Kitchen Garden
CREATING A show garden STAT
An idea conjured up on a train led Hannah Reid to exhibit a garden at this year's Hampton Court Flower Show. She explains how her 'train of thought' led to this magnificent creation
5 min |
September 2023
Kitchen Garden
THE ONLY WAY IS UP
What do you do when you can't expand your plot outwards? You go vertical. KG reader Geoff Hackett explains his unique growing system
4 min |
September 2023
Kitchen Garden
A VOYAGE OF food discovery
We talk to Charlotte Repton of the Country Trust, a charity dedicated to teaching children about food and how it is grown
5 min |
September 2023
Kitchen Garden
The froghopper: a creature of extremes
In the first of a new series taking a close look at garden wildlife, nature watcher Jack Edmonds highlights a fascinating insect with a unique way of keeping predators at bay
2 min |
September 2023
Kitchen Garden
SEEDS WORTH SAVING
Becky Searle shows you how you can save money, have healthier plants and protect food diversity just by saving seeds
5 min |
September 2023
Kitchen Garden
OUR JOURNEY SO FAR!
Join keen allotment blogger and vlogger Jane Kelly as she recalls her allotment journey with husband Mike, dog Rocky and a little flock of rescue hens
3 min |
September 2023
Kitchen Garden
GROW YOUR OWN RATATOUILLE AND MEDITERRANEAN ROASTED VEG
This month, Rob Smith brings a taste of the Mediterranean to the table with a range of succulent veg, perfect for roasting
5 min |