Tony reviews a selection of weed fabrics that can protect your soil from weeds! As a member of the Mudketeers’ Club, you can enjoy this exclusive preview of the upcoming Kitchen Garden YouTube videos, a whole month early! Watch more exclusive video guides here.
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I started these broad beans off in November in modular cell trays and today I got round to planting them out in the polytunnel. However, the soil was so dry after last summer’s heat that I had to give it a good soaking first. Although broad beans are winter hardy, […]
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If you would like to cultivate your own sweet potatoes you need to start these off undercover as they are tender plants. You can buy tubers or slips from many seed companies in spring and plant up in containers. Large pots or potato bags are ideal and then place inside […]
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This little bed of salad leaves is ready for picking now. It comprises ‘Winter Imperial’ lettuce; ‘Lollo Rossa’ lettuce, coriander and American land cress. The latter is a good substitute for watercress. I’ve used a metre square raised bed filled with soil and with a layer of multipurpose compost on […]
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Garlic is one of the easiest crops to grow and needs relatively little maintenance. But if you don’t have a lot of space for garlic in your garden, how about growing it in containers? This ‘Czechmate’ has just been planted (November 1st) and takes about 15 minutes to do, that’s […]
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We grew lots of sweet peppers in the polytunnel this year – wonderful crop! Grown undercover in pots, they don’t need much attention apart from watering, feeding with tomato food (when the flowers arrive) and making sure you pot them onto larger pots as they grow – this is because […]
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Saving seed It’s that time of year again when we can save lots of seed for sowing next season. Here I have collected lots of coriander seeds. Just off a few plants I probably got about 300 seeds and if I bought the equivilent seed that would probably cost me […]
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