Love your vegetable garden? We want to see it! Send us just a few pictures of your plot and you could be crowned one of our Top Plotters and be featured in Kitchen Garden magazine next year. But that’s not all! As well as appearing in our pages, our best […]
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Haxnicks’ Light-Booster Coldframe has reflective foiled fabric back panels that bounce light back onto your plants, increasing light levels by up to 50% – so you can keep growing as the days get shorter. The double-zipped door provides easy access, and side vents covered in micromesh prevent overheating, while keeping […]
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Haxnicks’ new Rice Husk Earth Pots Windowsill Set comprises three pots and a saucer in stylish earth tones. The pots, made from a byproduct of rice cultivation, are robust and will last for many years, whether you use them indoors or outside. Each one holds around a third of a litre […]
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Tradition has it that we take our Christmas tree down on Twelfth Night (12 nights after Christmas Day), which is either the 5th or 6th January, depending if you’re counting Christmas Day or Boxing Day as night one. But regardless of when you take your tree down, what’s the best […]
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A remarkable project to protect a unique ‘hopping’ bee facing extinction, having declined in number by more than 50% over recent years, is underway in Yorkshire. The extraordinary collaboration between The Species Recovery Trust and Agritech innovators AgriSound is using a newly developed bespoke AI-driven algorithm to detect and protect […]
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The autumn is a good time to plant garlic. Ideally buy from seed companies or from garden centres rather than use garlic from a supermarket. Garlic sold for planting will be varieties suited to our climate. You can start off in cell trays if you have very heavy clay soil […]
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In autumn you can still sow some rocket as it is quick growing and relatively hardy. That said as the weather is likely to be cooler try growing it in troughs or pots filled with multi purpose compost and place on a warm patio or near a wall to give […]
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