138 episodes

Kitchen Garden is Britain’s best guide to on how to grow your own food. It offers down-to-earth advice from the finest minds in gardening to make sure you get the tastiest produce from your plot. There are tips on how to grow your own wide range of fruit and vegetable crops and how to control troublesome pests plus what to do on your plot each month.
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The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast Kitchen Garden

    • Arts
    • 3.9 • 16 Ratings

Kitchen Garden is Britain’s best guide to on how to grow your own food. It offers down-to-earth advice from the finest minds in gardening to make sure you get the tastiest produce from your plot. There are tips on how to grow your own wide range of fruit and vegetable crops and how to control troublesome pests plus what to do on your plot each month.
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    138 - An interview with Susy Bortolot

    138 - An interview with Susy Bortolot

    KG editor Steve Ott chats to Susy Bortolot, AKA susybliving on Instagram and YouTube, about her obsession with growing her own, successional sowings and how moon phase gardening can both improve your crops, and your organisational skills in the garden!
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    • 31 min
    137 - The Team chats to gardening expert Martin Fish

    137 - The Team chats to gardening expert Martin Fish

    KG readers will know Martin from his regular contributions to the magazine. A trained horticulturist, ex-nurseryman and head gardener, Martin now concentrates on his work as a writer and on giving talks at many major shows around the country where he works with wife Jill – Martin giving the gardening advice and Jill putting together delicious recipes using the produce he grows. Here he chats to the KG team about his life in horticulture and his exciting new garden in Lincolnshire. You can follow progress from the garden every month throughout 2024 in the magazine.
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    • 31 min
    136 - What are we doing in January?

    136 - What are we doing in January?

    Jobs for January with the Kitchen Garden team
     
    The KG team discuss what they are doing in the garden this month including sowing chillies and aubergines, keeping the snow from your fruit cage, forcing rhubarb and 101 uses for a hot water bottle!

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    • 26 min
    135 - November in the veg garden

    135 - November in the veg garden

    The KG team take a break from the rain to chat through some of the jobs they’ll be doing in November as well as discussing some of the highs and lows of the season so far – including some mixed reactions to some of the tomato varieties they’ve been trying this year.
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    • 31 min
    134 - Barnsdale Gardens, proud to be peat-free

    134 - Barnsdale Gardens, proud to be peat-free

    The beautiful Barnsdale Gardens near Oakham in Rutland has been peat-free for more than 30 years after its founder TV gardener Geoff Hamilton, always ahead of his time, started to experiment with peat-free composts.
     
    His son and owner of Barnsdale, Nick Hamilton, carries on his work today and with peat-based composts about to be phased out, who better to ask about getting the best from the many new peat alternative composts now appearing in garden centres.
     
    KG editor Steve Ott chats to Nick about this plus the organic pest control methods the gardeners use at Barnsdale and picks up some fascinating insights.
     
    Find out more about Barnsdale Gardens including opening times, courses and special events: www.barnsdalegardens.co.uk

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    • 33 min
    133 - Nick Fraser of Nunnington Hall - Living Inspiration

    133 - Nick Fraser of Nunnington Hall - Living Inspiration

    In our latest podcast KG’s Steve Ott chats to the inspirational head gardener of the National Trust’s Nunnington Hall, Nick Fraser. Thanks to the dedicated work of Nick and his team this gem of a garden in North Yorkshire has become a true haven for wildlife as well as home to a thriving veg plot, orchards, and flower borders. For more information visit: Nunnington Hall | North Yorkshire | National Trust
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    • 21 min

Customer Reviews

3.9 out of 5
16 Ratings

16 Ratings

Tanjala632 ,

Let the guests speak

Never heard so many interruptions. The point of having guests on is not to lecture them, it’s to hear from them.

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Gave it a shot

Some great info but overshadowed by audio level issues and ads. My goodness some episode was running an ad marathon it seemed.

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