Jane's Delicious Garden: An Organic Guide to Growing Your Own Food

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Kirsty, a presenter on BBC Scotland’s Beechgrove Garden, explains the steps the garden is taking to help fight climate change, including preserving struggling plants, using green and clean technology and biocontrols for pests.

I love a good recipe that uses fresh ingredients, looks pretty and takes little effort to make. Wait until you try this one! Autumn Apple and Pecan Salad He chats to Kirsty Wilson, herbaceous supervisor at the botanic gardens, to discover more about its 350-year-old living collection of plants and its research projects. It was soon after this that I began researching different artistic grants in Leeds. I gradually refined my exhibition idea while reaching out to different connections who I knew could aid me in my application.Our ‘grow your own’ workshops are perfect for aspiring gardeners and the more green-fingered among us. You can expect tips, our seeds of knowledge from over the years of sowing, growing, and cooking across the litter and getting hands-on experimenting with forgotten foods and exploring new ways to grow. Aaron Jolley with his work at the Sitting With It BA Fine Art Degree Show in 2022. Image courtesy of the artist. If you don’t have the space to dig in a traditional vegetable garden with rows, or to install a raised bed or two, there are plenty of options that give green thumbs the opportunity to grow edibles. Sneak food plants into your ornamental garden among the perennials” Gardening Your Front Yard: Projects and Ideas for Big and Small Spaces, by Tara Nolan Crop idea list for food gardens

A food garden can be anything from a few container pots on a patio to a large field of veggies. It can be a traditionally designed potager garden or an indoor countertop setup with LED plant lights. You can also surround your food garden with companion plants (for instance, evergreens make wonderful companion plants for berry bushes). Good news! We still have two workshops upcoming this year. Firstly, we have our ‘Fermenting the Garden’ workshop on Thursday 17 th March where you can spend the day learning all about fermentation. You will discover how different fermented fruit, vegetables and drinks have enriched our diets and improved health for centuries. You’ll enjoy interesting talks, demonstrations, lunch with our chef and much more! Heinz tomato ketchup has gone up in price significantly with food inflation so now is a great time to think about making your own. Our easy recipe will show you how. Feeders Digest Mobile , Regal Industrial Estate, Gorton Road (last inspected September 2017) Rating: 1So if you’d like to get your tomato harvest off the ground a little earlier in the year, then you might want to plant a variety of tomatoes, but definitely include Early Girl tomatoes in there so you can have tomatoes much sooner than the rest.