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Kitchen Garden - Britain's best guide to growing your own, with advice from the finest minds in gardening to make sure you get the tastiest produce from your plot. Tips on growing a wide range of fruit & veg crops, what to do on your plot month by month, recipes, tips, and more. Veg Growing Guides give you everything you need to start your perfect plot. With everything from How To Grow..
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
1M ago
Cabbage is another crop that has suffered the same prejudice as the Brussels sprout, again probably due to being served overcooked. However, if freshly cut and lightly cooked with still a bit of crunch in the leaves, this veg is simply delicious. Cabbage is a member of the brassica family and is relatively easy to grow on most soils, although ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
1M ago
Broccoli is a highly nutritious vegetable that is a must for the veg patch. You will really notice the difference in flavour of your own grown broccoli and, being so fresh, it will contain even more vitamins and health giving properties. It belongs to the brassica family and there are three types: white and purple sprouting broccoli which are harvested ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
1M ago
The Brussels sprout is a much-maligned veg probably due because of childhood experiences of eating it overcooked. However, when fresh and picked small straight from the plot, then boiled lightly, this is a truly delicious veg. It is even better if cooked in more adventurous ways. Sprouts do however take up a lot of space and are in the ground ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
1M ago
Broad beans are a great crop for sowing in spring but also autumn to get some delicious beans in June when there is not much else in the veg garden. These large, leafy beans produce big pods which contain either white or green beans depending on the variety. The tips of the bean plants can also be picked and eaten ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
1y ago
Blueberries were the first of the ‘new’ wonder foods, to be followed by pomegranates, cranberries, grapes… but despite the hype, this fruit really is packed with vitamins and antioxidants. What’s just as important, when you want to get the kids to eat them, is that they taste great! Blueberries are so easy to grow and the plants are genuinely very ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
1y ago
A walk along any hedgerow in late summer and autumn will bring a tasty harvest of delicious blackberries from the brambles that weave their way through the undergrowth. If you love the taste of these wild berries then you will love their cousins the boysenberry, dewberry, loganberry, sunberry, youngberry and many more. These are all crosses between raspberries, blackberries and ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
1y ago
Beetroot is a vegetable that you either love or hate but it is unique in its colouring and flavour. It is a more popular vegetable in Eastern Europe and the States where it is used more in hot dishes. Here we are keen on pickling it as well as using it in salads. The best beetroot is definitely home-grown because ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
1y ago
Asparagus is one of the few perennial vegetables (those which come up year after year) and is one of the most highly prized –a true delicacy. It grows from thick spidery roots which act as the storage organs in winter when the plant dies back. In early spring the first young shoots to grow from these roots are harvested as ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
1y ago
Apricots are a favourite for drying and the nutrient-packed fruits make a great alternative to sugary sweets in children’s lunchboxes. However, the fresh fruit is delicious too and more and more popular in the supermarkets; unfortunately imported fruit which has travelled halfway around the world often tastes rather poor for the experience. But with modern varieties it is now possible ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
1y ago
Shop-bought apples are great, but if you have never grown your own, your choice will have been restricted to a handful of varieties chosen partly for taste, but also for their travelling and storage qualities. Yet there are so many more to choose from, all with their own unique flavours and textures. Apples are easy to grow and undemanding and ..read more