Gardening
Kitchen Garden
CHALLENGE BRASSICA!
Garden Organic’s Dr Anton Rosenfeld says brassicas are great and offers advice on coping with their challenges
3 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
STRESS-FREE WAYS WITH WEED CONTROL
There is one group of plants that never fail to look healthy and grow well: Weeds! But gardening expert Becky Searle has a four-step plan to keep them in check
5 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
Still time to sow...
It's not time to put away your sowing lines and cell trays just yet, as Emma Rawlings suggests a few things you could sow this month
7 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
A CHESHIRE GARDEN TO CHERISH
Daniel Heighes visits a charming kitchen garden nestled in the grounds of Quarry Bank in Styal
4 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
WATERING WONDERS
Are your plants feeling the heat? If so, there is a range of equipment available to keep them well-watered with options to suit your particular requirements. Here are a few we tried this month
3 min |
July 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 all being featured in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here is another of our great runners-up
4 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
IT'S A BEAN-ANZA!
Beans, beans and more beans: crops that just keep on giving. And even more so if you preserve them too, says Rob Smith
6 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
BREAD GLORIOUS BREAD
Anna Cairns Pettigrew inspires the inner bread-maker in all of us with five of her favourite recipes
7 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
THE IMPORTANCE OF LATE BLOOMERS
Garden Organic's head gardener Emma O'Neill shows how adding autumn and early winter flowering plants to your vegetable patch can offer a banquet of late-season food for insects
3 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
TOP JOBS FOR JULY
STEPHANIE HAFFERTY OUTLINES THE ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS
3 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
QUESTION TIME
GOT A FRUIT OR VEG PROBLEM? ASK KG FOR HELP
4 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
MEET THE BLOGGER BEANS, BREWS AND BREAD
Andrew Clarke is nothing if not versatile. Between baking and home brewing he grows a wide range of veg, including some heritage varieties
8 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
UNDER COVER
Trugs filed with summer harvests including courgettes, aubergines, tomatoes and cucumbers bring delicious fresh flavours into the kitchen.
3 min |
July 2025
Kitchen Garden
BUILD YOUR OWN CONTAINER POND
Becky Searle built a pond but soon came to see its failings. So she enlisted some help from the professionals - and went on to build a new pond on her allotment
6 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
ENJOY YOUR FREE SEEDS
Your free seeds this month include some very easy to grow and tasty favourites that are just perfect for filling gaps among slower-growing veggies
4 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
What's currant?
This month fruit expert David Patch takes a look at why blackcurrants and redcurrants are a great growing choice
3 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
POLYCULTURE IN POTS
In an extract from his new book Huw Richards explains how you can recreate polyculture on a small scale in containers
2 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
What can weeds tell you about your soil?
Before you pull up your weeds think about what they might be trying to tell you, says Dr Anton Rosenfeld of Garden Organic
3 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
OPEN-POLLINATED VS HYBRID SEEDS: WHICH IS RIGHT FOR YOUR GARDEN?
Natasha Lane, head of seed at Unwins, explains the difference between open-pollinated and hybrid seeds, giving you all the information you need to make an informed decision when buying them for y your garden
3 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
GARDEN RESCUE - A DIARY
The days from April to June have been busy ones for Chris and Karen Cronin, who share the diary of the progress in their loving restoration of Croome Court Walled Gardens in Worcestershire
2 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
SMALL SPACE SAVIOURS
Not everyone is blessed with a big garden or allotment but if you thought a lack of space might limit your options, think again! Benedict Vanheems shares some ingenious ideas to make the most of what you have
6 min |
June 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 all being featured in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we feature another of our runners-up
2 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
TREASURED ALLOTMENTS
Olga Grieves shares her experience of allotments in Poland, where life on the plot is about so much more than growing fruit and veg
6 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
THE TOOLS FOR THE JOB
Martin Fish continues his series on back to basics. This month he discusses must-have garden tools
4 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
MEET THE BLOGGER A RISING STAR
Ellis Lewis is just 17 and destined for an exciting career in horticulture. He has already been making great strides to that end. Here’s what he told us...
4 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
HIT THE HEIGHTS WITH SNOW PEAS
Nothing beats the taste of freshly picked home-grown peas, but mangetouts and sugar snaps are on another level...
3 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
The wonders of worm composting
Worm composting is one of these best things you can do for your garden, explains Helen Hutchings-Cox
6 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
HERB OF THE MONTH PARSLEY
Parsley is one of the most popular herbs to use in the kitchen. It is often bought as young plants in pots from the supermarket - but you can easily grow your own
3 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
BEYOND THE PLOT COURGETTES
Courgettes are so versatile and so prolific. This month Rob Smith provides six recipes to preserve your harvest so that nothing goes to waste
5 min |
June 2025
Kitchen Garden
TICKLE YOUR TASTEBUDS
Red radicchio and green chicory bring a flavour of the Med to your veg garden and are hardy enough for overwintering. Here are our top tips for success
2 min |