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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
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
1M 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
1M 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
1M 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
1M 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
1M 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
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
3M ago
iStock Tomatoes are a popular greenhouse crop can also be grown outside on the patio or plot or even in a hanging basket if you get the right variety. There are hundreds of tomato varieties ranging from the tiny cherry tomatoes to the huge beefsteak types and all sizes in between. Tomatoes are great value for money because most home-grown ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
3M ago
Pears are a very popular fruit in our supermarkets, but not the easiest to grow well in our gardens. This is for two main reasons – firstly, like plums they happen to flower when frosts are still common and the entire crop can be wiped out by a few cold nights. Secondly, depending on the variety, there is often a ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
3M ago
Plums are addictive. Just plant a tree in your garden, wait for it to become heavily laden with ripe juicy fruit, as it surely will, and try to resist eating one, then another, then another… Apart from the wonderful juicy crop, plums have the advantage of needing very little care; when it comes to pruning, for example, the message is ..read more
Kitchen Garden » Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
3M ago
Raspberries are a mainstay of the fruit garden and no patch is complete without them. Apart from their great taste and easy-going nature which makes them so easy to grow, they are heavy cropping and versatile in the kitchen. They love moisture and will grow well against a shady wall, but are not good in a very hot, sunny position ..read more