The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast

The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast

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.

10 minutes 8 seconds

146 - Winter Squashes

Squashes are members of the Cucurbita family that includes marrows, courgettes, cucumbers and melons. And like their fellow cousins, squashes are tender annuals. The winter squash can be stored for use over the winter months, making them a valuable and tasty addition to the winter table.

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11 November 2024, 10:00 am
16 minutes 10 seconds

145 - Conservation meets Innovation

Sissinghurst Castle Gardens are among Britain's most iconic. But did you know they also include a thriving vegetable garden? Kitchen garden editor Steve Ott takes a tour with kitchen gardener Olivia Steed Munden.

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28 October 2024, 10:00 am
9 minutes 50 seconds

144 - Peppers Uncovered

Sweet peppers and chili peppers have increased in popularity over recent years, and the seed catalogs are full of interesting varieties ranging from mild to very hot fruits that suit all tastes. Martin Fish gives his expert advice on growing these yourself.

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15 October 2024, 9:00 am
35 minutes 39 seconds

143 - Inspiring a community through gardening

In this podcast KG editor Steve Ott chats to inspirational community gardener Becky Rolfe. With the help of willing volunteers, Becky has helped to create two community plots on the site in her local Norfolk village, providing prospective plot holders with the chance to gain confidence and hone their skills before taking on a patch of their own. She is also the driving force behind Hevingham Community Garden, open to the public 24/7 as a space to relax and to grow food, much of which is given to families in need in the local community and beyond. This work is part-funded by Becky herself via not-for-profit company Give Two Figs through which she sells her beautiful artworks. For more information: www.givetwofigs.co.uk : https://www.instagram.com/givetwofigs/ : https://www.facebook.com/GiveTwoFigs/ :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2958402361153787/ (the last for Hevingham Community Garden specifically)

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10 August 2024, 9:00 am
34 minutes 25 seconds

142 - All the fun of the show

KG editor Steve Ott chats to organic gardening expert and regular contributor to KG Stephanie Hafferty about RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024. What were the themes and highlights and what ideas will Stephanie be taking home to her own plot in beautiful Wales.
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2 July 2024, 7:30 am
28 minutes 17 seconds

141 - KG Editor Steve Ott talks to Tayshan Hayden-Smith

In this podcast KG editor Steve Ott chats to Tayshan Hayden-Smith who many of you will know as a TV presenter on BBC’s Your Garden Made Perfect and Hampton Court Flower Show coverage. He is also a pro footballer, award-winning Chelsea Flower Show designer, green activist and founder of The Grow2Know Project and now with the release of his new book Small Space Revolution, an author too!
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23 April 2024, 9:00 am
28 minutes 49 seconds

140 - The Veg Plot in April

The KG team of Steve, Emma and Tony gather to chat about the top tasks on the plot this month, to compare notes on what they have been up to in recent weeks and to talk about some of the latest gardening stories to hit the news – as well as the weather of course!

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13 April 2024, 7:00 am
31 minutes 5 seconds

139 - An Interview with Milly Fyfe

KG editor Steve Ott chats to Milly Fyfe who (in no particular order) is a keen gardener, garden writer, farmer, Mum of two, home cook, food campaigner, award-winning digital marketing expert, Instagrammer and blogger as well as the owner of website www.nofussmealsforbusyparents.com (well-worth a visit for the delicious recipes alone!) Milly talks about her upbringing among a family of gardeners and her work promoting seasonal British farm produce as well as home-grown crops to parents and children alike.
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29 March 2024, 6:00 pm
31 minutes 8 seconds

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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6 March 2024, 6:00 pm
31 minutes 56 seconds

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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13 February 2024, 6:00 pm
26 minutes 18 seconds

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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22 January 2024, 6:00 pm
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