Advantages: A great gift for gardeners Disadvantages: There's not enough episodes!
This makes a great gift for keen kitchengardeners. The gardener in the series was a gardener in a real Victorian kitchengarden and shows exactly how they did it - you can pick up some really good hints and tips. You see the garden throughout the year, too, and it's easy on the eyes!
Throughout the series you see the transformation as the neglected walled kitchengarden at Chiltern Foliat (in Berkshire) is restored to its former glory as a working kitchengarden.
Step back in time and learn how the Victorians grew pineapples in their greenhouses, and how they supplied freshly grown produce to the 'big house' every day of the year. Find out about Victorian seeds, and which heritage varieties are still worth growing today.
The DVD special features are a bit light: an interview with presenter Peter Thoday and a History File. ...
Advantages: Useful Seasonal advice for the Vegetable gardener of any skill level Disadvantages: I honestly can't think of any
I buy the KitchenGardener magazine on a monthly basis. I think it is one of the most useful reference materials you can find on vegetable gardening.
It has step by step plans for planting and renovation projects around your garden, I especially like it as there is a whole section on Allotments. As I have an allotment I find this part very helpful, it is obviously written by an experienced allotment holder.
I think that whatever experience you have in growing your own vegetables this should be the magazine for you. You don't have to be a gardening expert to understand it but it also has enough useful tips to keep the experienced vegetable grower coming back for more. I would recommend buying this publication even if you just grow a few tomatoes in pots it will inspire you. ...
Advantages: full of information Disadvantages: none
The kitchenGarden magazine,has to be the best magazine for the vegetable gardener.
The magazine is easy to follow,well laid out and is full of valuable information on all types of fruit and vegetables,whether you are a novice gardener or expert.
There are step by step guides from sowing the seed's to the plant's growing to maturity,which are helpful and there's plenty of advice on pests and diseases and theres even a few cookery tips for the produce that you grow.Each month the main topic of the magazine coincides with the gardening calender so it's like a gardening diary.
I reccomend this magazine to anyone with a interest in growing their own fresh produce. ...
garybroughton 03.04.2001
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