Kitchen Garden - February 2025

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JOBS FOR THE MONTH: This month Stephanie Hafferty is forcing rhubarb, growing early potatoes in bags and harvesting winter salads.
KG TOP PLOTTER: This month our second-place winners are featured: Steve and Lisa Bates from Dorset.

UNDER COVER

HARVEST WINTER SALADS - Winter salads, whether they have been growing outside, on a windowsill or under cover in the garden, will be starting to grow faster as the day length increases. Regular picking of the outer leaves helps to keep the plants healthy and producing for much longer.

3 mins

OUR TOP PLOTTERS

Last summer we launched a competition to find our Top Plotters, with the top three winning some great prizes and the chance to be featured in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we meet our second-placed pair

3 mins

SOW EASY

Are you ready for spring? It all starts with those seeds and the more we can do to improve germination rates, the better our chances for a bumper season. Benedict Vanheems offers some advice to help you up your sowing success

7 mins

DIGGING FOR DEVON!

Rhiannon Alcock thought gardening was definitely not for her. So who could have foreseen that one day she would go on to found a thriving community project growing food for food banks?

4 mins

THE BIG (OR LITTLE) PARSNIP GROW-ALONG

Back in December we included a free packet of parsnip seeds with every issue and invited readers to join us in growing the longest root. Here are some top tips to get you started

3 mins

MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR COMPOST

Dr Anton Rosenfeld from Garden Organic shares some great ideas for ways to use your composted waste effectively

3 mins

CREATING A POTAGER GARDEN

Creating vegetable beds in patterns with dividing pathways can be an attractive and practical way to grow. Emma Rawlings offers some tips on making a potager

3 mins

HERB OF THE MONTH: SAGE ADVICE

Sage has been an important culinary and medicinal herb for centuries but it also comes in a range of leaf colours that makes it a real treat for the eyes (and nose) in borders and pots

4 mins

A FOOD FOR ALL SEASONS

Another Christmas has passed in a whirl of twinkling lights, naff jumpers and Brussels sprouts. No doubt we smug kitchen gardeners were patting ourselves on the back after another year of home-grown delights on the dinner table. Frost-sweetened parsnips dripping with butter, tender carrots and potatoes grown and roasted by our good selves. Not to mention the swede, turnips, cabbages and other winter treats. If you're reading this while Christmas memories are fresh, you might feel your waistline expanding just thinking about it. For some, it might even be too soon to talk about food full stop!

4 mins

A wildlife pond is born

Jane Kelly finally got round to making her own pond in the hope that it would attract a variety of wildlife. And it did!

5 mins

WINTER WONDERFUL

This month Anna Cairns Pettigrew has prepped a range of delicious and nutritious dishes for us all to try, with mustards, Savoy cabbage and 'Cavolo Nero' kale on the menu

5 mins

DIGGING THE DIRT THINGS THAT GO CLUNK IN THE LIGHT

John Holloway finds the mechanical and electrical tools on his allotment site somewhat 'challenging', shall we say. But has he found the perfect solution?

2 mins

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Kitchen Garden Magazine - UK's No.1 for growing your own fruit and vegetables. KG also offers great monthly give-aways, special gardening offers, recipes, growing tips and much more.The KG team put their heads together to bring you their top 101 tips to help you get your season off to the best possible start and as cheaply as possible. We hope you’ll agree that they are genuinely useful. If you have any of your own you’d like to share, please drop me a line and we’ll feature them in the magazine.