Backyard

1 min. di lettura

This is a simple way to make a tiny herb or vegetable garden for yourself, or create a green and gorgeous gardening gift for someone who has limited space. This garden-in-a-bag will flourish for 12 months to two years. I’ve also created a recycled ti

Oxygen

1 min. di lettura

The U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend eating 2 to 2½ cups of vegetables every day, an amount that has been linked to reduced chance for disease and improved health across hundreds of studies. Not a veggie person? Make it easier on yourself with a lit

Kitchen Garden

3 min. di lettura

“The garden fell into disuse after the war, but 25 years ago it changed ownership and was resurrected” Barley Wood Walled Garden at Wrington, south of Bristol, is in a magnificent position, on the south-facing side of a hill with breathtaking views t

Kitchen Garden

5 min. di lettura

KG editor Steve Ott explores the possibilities Storing fruit and veg was once an essential skill – without it you and your family might not survive the cold winter months. Of course, now if you run out of carrots you can pop to the local supermarket

Pip Permaculture Magazine

1 min. di lettura

Our Kids’ Patch winners for issue 15 are Ruby and Rory. Congratulations! You’ve both won a copy of Easy Peasy Gardening for Kids. In the next issue, we are giving away a copy of Grow Do It, the CD and activity book by the Formidable Vegetable Sound S

Farmer's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

I’ve grown my own fresh produce for the past 52 years in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal. I’ve just transplanted two sweet potatoes and one potato, all grown from 0,5cm slivers of the vegetables, into a big raised bed in full sun, hoping that the bed will be

Pip Permaculture Magazine

4 min. di lettura

The Plummery’s vegie patch is the productive heart of our urban permaculture system. Measuring a modest 30 m2 (including paths), it has been managed through just a couple of hours a week. We swap our persimmons for pumpkins and buy a sack of potatoes

Kitchen Garden

1 min. di lettura

■ As the weather warms up outside, it can get very hot undercover, which can cause some plants such as chard and beetroot to prematurely flower and run to seed. Once this process starts, you can’t reverse it, but by pinching out flowers as soon as th

Kitchen Garden

6 min. di lettura

How long have you been interested in growing your own veg and when did you start your first veg patch? Our first vegetable patch began when we moved to our cottage almost four years ago. I saw some vegetable plugs in the garden centre and on a whim

American Farmhouse Style

1 min. di lettura

Health experts have told us for years about the importance of eating wholesome vegetables. For Lauri Kranz, founder of Edible Gardens LA, vegetables are just a few steps away in her garden. In her new book, A Garden Can Be Anywhere: Creating Bountifu

Amateur Gardening

2 min. di lettura

IF the past year has taught us one thing, it’s that we love to grow our own. As the first lockdown tightened its grip last spring, fruit and veg seeds became as rare as hen’s teeth, such was the demand. To keep themselves occupied, new gardeners star

Country Life

1 min. di lettura

As the day for sowing vegetable seeds approaches, it is time to address the straightforward, but essential task of crop rotation. Although it has its limitations, this ancient practice remains the best method yet for limiting the spread of such horro

Kitchen Garden

3 min. di lettura

Here at Little Miss Sunshine Childminding we have been growing our own vegetables for the past few years. The children really enjoy planting the seeds, watering them and watching them grow. This helps the children know where vegetables come from as t

Eat Well

1 min. di lettura

Since Coco Chanel popularised tanning in the 1920s there has been an idea that tanned skin is beautiful skin. Of course, tanning also does immense damage to skin, so what to do? Part of the reason a tan is regarded as attractive is that it gives the

Country Style

3 min. di lettura

YOUR GRANDMOTHER made me put my hand inside a duck that your father had just shot,” my mother recalls, as we speak on the phone. “I was 22 years old. Your dad and I were just married and she told me it was our job as women to gut this duck and get it

Country Homes & Interiors

2 min. di lettura

Her first garden in London provided a chance to get her hands into the soil but it was when she moved to her home in Northamptonshire 13 years ago, with its walled garden and raised beds, that she could really indulge her passion. She now grows a hug

Woman & Home Feel Good You

4 min. di lettura

The benefits of growing your own food are numerous – higher vitamin levels, fresher taste, and minimal air miles, not to mention cheaper shopping bills and fewer trips to the supermarket – plus you’ll know exactly what has gone into the soil. You don

Good Organic Gardening

2 min. di lettura

I write this as we go into the gentle season of autumn, but how could we forget the searing summer we experienced this year? The NSW Hunter Valley, where I live, is one of the areas that copped the worst of it and, for the first time, my summer vegie

The Gardener Magazine

1 min. di lettura

Green beans are one of summer’s most prolific veggies, but if you find that they are not performing well, it could be that they are planted too close to a member of the onion family. They also don’t like being planted with dill, fennel or garlic, eve

Farmer's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

I’ve covered a wide range of topics in my column. All of these, to a greater or lesser degree, play a part in the successful marketing of fruit and vegetables. However, most of them would be irrelevant were it not for management. ‘Management’ in this

Backyard

5 min. di lettura

WORDS: NICK VALE PHOTOS: NICK VALE & COURTESY OF BELLS AT KILLCARE The first kitchen garden at the famed New South Wales restaurant Bells at Killcare was originally planted by former head chef, Cameron Cansdell. Surrounded by a large expanse of forma

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

1 min. di lettura

Gumboots make fantastic DIY pot plants. Try using a variety of different coloured or patterned gumboots to create a quirky backyard vibe. To make the garden even more unique, gumboot planters can also be hung on a fence or balcony. Give your vege g

Kitchen Garden

2 min. di lettura

My Soil, a free app for both Apple and Android devices, gives you access to a comprehensive European soil properties map. Produced by the British Geological Survey, you can find out what kind of soil you have in your area. In this way, you can be bes

The English Home

3 min. di lettura

This is the season of hope, dreams and visions. This is the season of the seed catalogue. The spirit of cheery optimism floods the brain. In my mind’s eye, I see trim lines of frothy lettuces; fine, upstanding broad beans; the leaves of courgettes sp

Kitchen Garden

1 min. di lettura

Choose from the UK’s largest range of vegetable and flower seeds and enjoy savings of up to 20%. The family owned and run seed experts offer you more than 1700 varieties including a new range of RHS-endorsed AGM winners. For 2019 Mr Fothergill’s is p

SA Garden and Home

1 min. di lettura

Iain and Angelika Edwards. Iain (right) is an author and historian who works from home. Angelika is an estate agent and qualified yoga instructor. A small 100m² backyard in Ruimsig, Jo’burg, filled to overflowing with edible and medicinal plants. I

Kitchen Garden

2 min. di lettura

How successful was your 2018 gardening? If you cropped veg, fruit or flowers, or cut grass, you’ll have harvested (or, some would say, mined) the soil. Winter is the time to nurture, heal and prepare it for a new season. Join with fellow gardeners or

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

3 min. di lettura

from growing your own vegetables to doubling – or even quadrupling – your ornamentals without having to pay extra for them, these projects can turn barren into bounty, squish into success and make towers of power. Don’t let the chill curtail you. Ima

Woman's Weekly Living Series

1 min. di lettura

✣ HIGH-FIBRE FOODS. Try fresh fruit, vegetables, pulses and wholegrains, which act as ‘manure’ for your gut bugs. ✣ BRIGHTLY COLOURED FRUIT AND VEG. They contain polyphenols, which help microbes thrive. Think red, blue and purple berries, red and y

Organic NZ

1 min. di lettura

By March it’s advisable to have many of our winter vegetables already well grown, especially leeks, brassicas, celeriac and carrots. They mature as the cold weather sets in, then can wait in the ground to be harvested over the winter months. However,