How to Grow a Winter Kitchen Garden

The build pictures you will see below are for an aquaponics system. Aquaponics is a method of growing vegetables (indoor or outdoor)

Find out how to grow tomatoes in a growing bag, indoors or outdoors, with the help of our step-by-step guide.

Aquaponics is a combination of raising fish (aquaculture) and the soil-less growing of plants (hydroponics) that grows fish and plants together in one integrate

When growing tomatoes in grow bags, it is normal to grow four tomato plants in each standard bag of which the size is 1.10m long, 38cm wide and 15cm deep

Swedes belong to the same family as the cabbage and are subject to the same diseases, including the dreaded finger and toe or club root

Lettuce Varieties – How to Grow Lettuce Plant. The basis of almost any salad is the lettuce, which can be grown anywhere in the British Isles

Runner beans have been with us some three hundred years, but their behaviour over recent years has left a good deal to be desired with regard to fruit setting

Expert Tips for Sowing Vegetables Seeds Successfully in Dry Weather. The most satisfactory way to do this is to:

There are many varieties of wild tomatoes of which the fruit differs considerably in shape, size and colour. They vary in height, some if not checked growing

No chances should be taken with border soil. It is advisable to have some form of analysis carried out, even if it is only a pH and potato cyst eelworm check.

The first task of the young tomato plant is to establish itself successfully, and to achieve this the roots must develop out from the root ball into the growing

The tomato, originally a small prostrate spreading plant from South America, belongs to the genus Lycopersicon and two distinct species

Cucumber plants are ready for planting when 30-38cm (12-15in) high with eight to ten leaves formed, although smaller plants are often set out with great success

The tomato is probably the heaviest yielding crop per yard of ground that we have in this country, beating even crops like potatoes and onions

Tomatoes are most accommodating plants but when they are to be grown outdoors a really good start under the right conditions is essential to ensure complete

The ring culture of tomatoes or ‘tomato ring culture’ is now widely practised. It is a method which provides controlled conditions of nourishment and water

Among basic advantages of straw-bale cultivation is isolation from soil-borne troubles of which tomato mosaic virus may be among the most destructive

Cucumis sativus is frequently grown commercially, like the tomato, in a single cordon, but is unlikely to be so treated by the majority of gardeners.

Many of the modern outdoor, or ridge, cucumbers grow almost as easily as marrows and so are a welcome addition to a small kitchen garden