Gardening
Kitchen Garden
REVEALING THE MAGIC
This month we're off to Worcestershire to the Walled Gardens of. Croome Court. Once sadly neglected they have now been lovingly restored, revealing treasures old and new
10+ min |
March 2025
Kitchen Garden
FANTASTIC FIELD BEANS!
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld extols the virtues of the field bean and explains how and why we should grow lots more of this relative of the broad bean
3 min |
March 2025
Kitchen Garden
In the right spot
Here we feature an extract from the new RHS book Grow Food Anywhere by Lucy Chamberlain, which is all about putting the right crops in the right place
3 min |
March 2025
Kitchen Garden
KOHL RABI GROWING GUIDE
Kohl rabi is a versatile, tasty summer and autumn veg that can be eaten raw or cooked. Here are our tips to make your harvest a success
3 min |
March 2025
Kitchen Garden
KNOW YOUR FERTILISERS
This month Martin Fish helps to demystify the seemingly complicated world of fertilisers
3 min |
March 2025
Kitchen Garden
A FOOD FOR ALL SEASONS
Another Christmas has passed in a whirl of twinkling lights, naff jumpers and Brussels sprouts. No doubt we smug kitchen gardeners were patting ourselves on the back after another year of home-grown delights on the dinner table. Frost-sweetened parsnips dripping with butter, tender carrots and potatoes grown and roasted by our good selves. Not to mention the swede, turnips, cabbages and other winter treats. If you're reading this while Christmas memories are fresh, you might feel your waistline expanding just thinking about it. For some, it might even be too soon to talk about food full stop!
4 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
DIGGING THE DIRT THINGS THAT GO CLUNK IN THE LIGHT
John Holloway finds the mechanical and electrical tools on his allotment site somewhat 'challenging', shall we say. But has he found the perfect solution?
2 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
THE BIG (OR LITTLE) PARSNIP GROW-ALONG
Back in December we included a free packet of parsnip seeds with every issue and invited readers to join us in growing the longest root. Here are some top tips to get you started
3 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
DIGGING FOR DEVON!
Rhiannon Alcock thought gardening was definitely not for her. So who could have foreseen that one day she would go on to found a thriving community project growing food for food banks?
4 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
WINTER WONDERFUL
This month Anna Cairns Pettigrew has prepped a range of delicious and nutritious dishes for us all to try, with mustards, Savoy cabbage and 'Cavolo Nero' kale on the menu
5 min |
February 2025
Kitchen Garden
MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR COMPOST
Dr Anton Rosenfeld from Garden Organic shares some great ideas for ways to use your composted waste effectively
3 min |
February 2025
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 |