Gardening

The Gastrocast Forum

December 18, 2006

The Kitchen Garden Company is proud to support the launch of The Gastrocast Podcast Forum. While this forum is mainly a place for the listeners of The Gastrocast Podcast to share information, views and experiences, it is not limited to just listeners of the show. Anyone with something to add about food, cooking, gardening, farming, [...]

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How to Make Bokashi Fermented Wheat Bran

July 12, 2006

A Short Video to explain how simple it is to make some bokashi: To learn more about this product and the process, you may want to read this and this. Technorati Tags: bokashi, bokashi buckets, sustainability, composting, farming, gardening, podchef, video, kitchen garden company, how to, diy, anaerobic composting

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Polytunnel Polyculture Video

June 9, 2006

Technorati Tags: polytunnel, polyculture, tomatoes, youtube, podchef, video, gardening, farming, vegetables

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Gastrocast #58

May 12, 2006

This week’s Gastrocast is out–the cooking show about “food, cooking and the politics of what we eat”. Apart from talking about things going on with the company, the island, and the garden we cook two Rhubarb dishes–A Rhubarb & Sweet Cicely Fool, and Grilled Pork Chops with Rhubarb Cumberland Sauce. It’s spring turning into summer, [...]

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Hey Hay!

May 12, 2006

Okay gardeners. Now is the time to deal the deals and talk the talk. Haying season is almost here and the best source of free garden soil improvement is up for grabs. Yes, I am talking about last years hay. As farmers clear out their barns of old or broken bales to make room for [...]

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Summer is here

May 4, 2006

Spring appears to have given away to summer and we are left scrambling to plant everything to take advantage of the hot weather. All the tomatoes, eggplants, chillies and basil have been planted in the polytunnel and the average temperature in there is 85 degrees F. Outside it has hit 70 degrees F. here today [...]

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Chicken Tractor

April 17, 2006

In order to help clean up the garden, I built this chicken tractor to move about the place. It’s a little heavy, but slides over the grass smoothly. I may fit some wheels on at some point. So far, the 10 lucky chicks have been moved 4 times in 8 days and don’t seem to [...]

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Wind damage to polytunnel

March 2, 2006

We have been having some severe gales here this past week with winds gusting to 60 miles per hour. A few days ago I awoke expecting to find the polytunnel gone. Fortunately there was only some minor damage. Last night there was another horrific wind storm with gusts shaking the house and all kinds of [...]

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Sprouts!

February 28, 2006

Outside, the weather has been alternately, bitterly cold and rainy. The other night we had a violent gale which left us without much sleep. Between worrying about the power going out and having to find somewhere to move the baby chickens in to where it was warmer (it was about 36 outside) and whether the [...]

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Polytunnel Update

February 20, 2006

It has been hovering around freezing here for over a week, and there has been a mixture of gale force winds, rain and crystal blue skies. But none of that has stopped progress with the Polytunnel. This past week found me braving frostbite to haul in several wheelburrow loads into the tunnel to improve the [...]

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