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Stephanie's Kitchen Garden Diary
Welcome to the update page featuring the seasonal progress we are making in ‘Stephanie’s Kitchen Garden’. Since its inception in 2005, the exciting project has adopted a completely organic method of approach that is at the heart of Harrod Horticultural. The project is headed up by Martin Fiddes, a trained horticulturalist and a member of our friendly sales team, together with the influence of our Managing Director Stephanie Harrod. Between them, they set a yearly crop plan and use seed and gardening products from our range to bring it to fruition.
The kitchen garden is the perfect trialing ground for new and existing products that we sell so that we are able to fully recommend them whilst it provides our staff with enviable knowledge to help serve customers like you better than ever. You can have fun too. Learn with us, and follow the monthly updates in Martin’s Diary below – whether it is the highs or the lows of gardening, it is all captured here. And why not ask Martin a question or interact with fellow gardeners for hints, tips and advice in our garden forum After all, exchanging knowledge is the only way to learn!
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Hedgehog Haven | 15/05/2008 |
| Finally, some sun on our backs! Another busy month in the garden - find out about our new lodgers, how the potatoes are getting on, our slug-busting ideas and much more!...read more | ||
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March Winds | 25/04/2008 |
| March in the kitchen garden has been a meterelogical puzzle; find out how we coped with inclement weather, started planting potatoes, took care of our early crops - and lots, lots more!...read more | ||
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Frustrating February! | 28/02/2008 |
| A review of February's garden activities including a visit from a tree pruning expert, a look in the greenhouse, some early strawberry planting - and much more!...read more | ||
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Planning for 2008 | 01/02/2008 |
| A look back at the early days of the Kitchen Garden, a welcome delivery of manure and what's likely to be growing in 2008......read more | ||
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A Break from Tradition! | 04/12/2007 |
| Hark back, if you will, to my last update from the Kitchen Garden when I was sidelined with my ankle injury...read more | ||
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Some things are destined not to go together! | 04/10/2007 |
| A bit like Romeo and Juliet, or perhaps oil and water. Fire and ice even. And to that list you can add gardening and a broken ankle!...read more | ||
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Welcome August Sunshine! | 06/08/2007 |
| You’ve got to take your hat off to Mother Nature. She laid on the perfect conditions for slugs and snails to procreate during the wet months of June and July and now she’s sent some welcome August sunshine which the plants are lapping up. The result? Lots of slugs, lots of snails and lots of juicy plants to eat!...read more | ||
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The wettest June for 93 years | 04/07/2007 |
| The Harrod Horticultural Kitchen Garden is usually a hectic place to be, but this last month has really taken the frantic biscuit! We’ve been building – and planting up – new raised beds; the slugs and snails have enjoyed a population boom; Kate’s headed off to pastures new; I’ve successfully completed the Master Composter course – and then, of course, there’s the weather...read more | ||
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There is a new arrival at the Kitchen Garden | 12/06/2007 |
| As usual, May has been a very busy time in the garden. I’ve been at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, we have new raised beds to build, Kate’s got hedges to trim and there’s the usual raft of sowing, transplanting and weeding to continue with....read more | ||
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Kate and I have been really up against it this month for various reasons | 04/04/2007 |
| Climatic experts have long been insisting that global warming is inevitable, and in the next few years we are likely to see changes in our weather – but I didn’t think they meant immediately!...read more | ||
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I always thought that it was hares that went mad in March! | 05/03/2007 |
| I always thought that it was hares that went mad in March, but this year it seems to be the weather! March is always a busy month in the Kitchen Garden anyway, but we’ve also had to cope with 3 seasons in 4 weeks....read more | ||
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Spring is sprung! | 05/02/2007 |
| Spring is sprung! Yes, I might be jumping the gun a little but there are definitely signs that nature is rumbling back into life. Small green bulb shoots are straining to push their way up through the soil and the rhodendrons are starting to form buds....read more | ||
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The deep mid-winter | 04/01/2007 |
| This must be the worst time of year, with slate grey skies day after day and the garden practically devoid of colour. It really seems like nature has packed up and gone away for a couple of weeks just after Christmas!...read more | ||
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Welcome Kate! | 01/12/2006 |
| With even more products appearing in the burgeoning horticultural marketplace, it’s been decided to boost the staff numbers in the Kitchen Garden so we can continue to bring you cutting edge products and information – so enter Kate....read more | ||
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Sarpo Success! | 10/11/2006 |
| Those heavy August rains certainly had an effect on the Kitchen Garden plants as they spent most of September producing fruit of fantastic shapes and colours – the garden was a real riot of colour and scents....read more | ||
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Sweet as a Potato! | 15/09/2006 |
| The endless, hot sunny days of July were soon washed away by the regular deluges of August, but although I was half-drowned most of the time, the plants in the Kitchen Garden absolutely loved it!...read more | ||
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Kitchen Gardener Heads for Surrey! | 16/08/2006 |
| The Kitchen Garden has been left to fend for itself for two days this week as I've been off on my travels once again - this time to the Royal Horticultural Society's famous garden at Wisley and here's my report on the trip...read more | ||
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Runner Bean - and Gone! | 08/07/2006 |
| A mystery is unfolding in the Kitchen Garden during the long hot days of the summer - just who is responsible for eating the runner bean plants?...read more | ||
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Summer in the City | 14/06/2006 |
| Now the Chelsea Show is over I can get back to tending the garden - can anyone remind me how to get there?!...read more | ||
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Springing into Action! | 07/04/2006 |
| Seventeen degrees celcius certainly seems to indicate that Spring is finally here, and the Kitchen Garden is starting to awaken!...read more | ||
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Sowing the Seeds for 2006 | 03/03/2006 |
| Sowing the Seeds for 2006 -It’s going to be a busy year in the Kitchen Garden and I’ve already started sowing our Organic vegetable seeds – as per the plan!...read more | ||
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Planning for the Future | 08/02/2006 |
| As we are well into the New Year, garden thoughts have turned to the spring and summer and what will be growing in the Kitchen Garden. If ever a plan was required, it's now!...read more | ||
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A Year of Sensational Progress! | 10/01/2006 |
| The arrival of the Yuletide Season and the New Year brings fruit trees, a potting shed and a long list of jobs!...read more | ||
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Fog, Frost and the Big Autumn Clean-Up | 24/11/2005 |
| The winter starts to fire off it’s weather arrows and we clean the garden from top to bottom…...read more | ||
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Ghouls in the Greenhouse | 01/11/2005 |
| As it's Halloween, we concentrate on the nasties in the greenhouse and how to get rid of them...read more | ||
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The Autumn Winter Collection 2005 | 28/09/2005 |
| We showcase the latest models destined to appear on the Kitchen Garden catwalk this winter.......read more | ||
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Recipe for Success - continued! | 01/09/2005 |
| Continuing our resume of the produce on the kitchen table this month.....read more | ||
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Recipe for Success | 28/07/2005 |
| From the Kitchen Garden to the Kitchen Table - we bring you up to date on exactly what has been happening to the crops harvested in the Kitchen Garden so far...read more | ||
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Early July and crops are ready for tasting | 12/07/2005 |
| The legume bed has proved extremely popular...read more | ||
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The Path to Success! | 29/06/2005 |
| The Heavy Duty Steel Fruit Cage arrives and the paths take shape...read more | ||
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The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2005 | 06/06/2005 |
| Harrod Horticultural receives a commendation at the World's premier Gardening Show...read more | ||
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Tomato Heaven in the Greenhouse | 29/05/2005 |
| Greenhouse crops are flourishing and the A-Tom frame plants thrive...read more | ||
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The Masterplan.......takes shape | 05/05/2005 |
| An Oasis of green in the Kitchen Garden...read more | ||
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War on Slugs in the Kitchen Garden | 28/04/2005 |
| A fierce battle rages in the Garden - but who is winning?...read more | ||
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Springing into Action! | 06/04/2005 |
| The Garden welcomes its' first flourish of plants...read more | ||
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No Happy Easter for Bunnies! | 24/03/2005 |
| The Kitchen Garden is now Rabbit proof - or is it?...read more | ||
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March is a growing success | 03/03/2005 |
| Winter's late blast does not affect propagation and the Potato chitting debate continues...read more | ||
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Winter Wonderland | 24/02/2005 |
| Very picturesque - but not so good for progressing the project! - design plans are finalised...read more | ||
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Can you Dig It? | 10/02/2005 |
| The heavy machinery rolls in as the Kitchen Garden Site is cleared...read more | ||
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