Stephanie's Kitchen Garden Diary
Featuring hints, tips & gardening advice throughout the seasons
Welcome to Stephanie's Kitchen Garden
Designed by RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winner Tom Hoblyn for Harrod Horticultural MD Stephanie Harrod back in 2005. Stephanie's Kitchen Garden was set up primarily to trial various methods of growing fruit and vegetables and to share the knowledge gained with our customers. It has also given us the opportunity to develop and manufacture products to enable us to successfully grow flavour packed fruit and vegetables.
Echoing the Harrod Horticultural growing ethos, Stephanie's Kitchen Garden is cultivated completely organically by horticultural advisor and Kitchen Gardener Jo Blackwell. Working with Stephanie, Jo sets a yearly crop plan and uses seed and gardening supplies from our range to bring it to fruition. You can read - and no doubt empathise with - their monthly experiences in the diary entries below and pick up some growing tips too.
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Stephanie's Kitchen Garden Diary November 2012
Posted on 27 November 2012I love November. The first light frosts have arrived, but still there are days warm enough to garden in your shirt sleeves. This month has been all about finishing the clearing and tidying of the garden and preparing for Winter. This is one of my favourite jobs of the year. The clear, freshly dug ground is oozing with the promise of what's to come next year. I already have it all planned in my head!
Stephanie's Kitchen Garden Diary October 2012
Posted on 31 October 2012Happy Halloween everyone! Congratulations if you have grown some great pumpkins this year, with the weather we've had to contend with this summer you have done very well! Now Autumn is upon us or maybe Winter has arrived early? The shorter and darker days are here too so less gardening time for all those keen gardeners out there. All I know is that it's been very chilly of late and everything is looking decidedly messy in Stephanie's Kitchen Garden, all the rain and the falling leaves have kick started our Autumn clean up with a vengeance. Read on to see what else we've been up to this month in Stephanie's Kitchen Garden we hope you will find some inspiration to get out there and get stuck in!
Stephanie's Kitchen Garden Diary - September 2012
Posted on 1 October 2012You can certainly feel the chill of the autumnal air now and the leaves on the trees are starting to change colour and fall, you could begin to think that there is not much to do in the kitchen now but don't be fooled by the change of season as September was a busy month in the garden with a flurry of seed sowing, harvesting and general jobs to do before the chilly weather sets in. Read on to see what Lynn has been up to this month in Stephanie's Kitchen Garden.
Stephanie's Kitchen Garden Diary - August 2012
Posted on 31 August 2012As I am writing this the heavens have opened and there is a roar or thunder accompanied by a crack of lightning and I am reluctant to say is this the end of summer? We certainly hope not here in Stephanie's Kitchen Garden as our plants have got plenty of life in them yet - we still need some much yearned for sunshine to ripen them off...
Stephanie's Kitchen Garden Diary - July 2012
Posted on 31 July 2012It feels like deja vu reading July 2011's kitchen garden update - rain, rain and more rain. Our English summers seem to be having a common theme these days and the lack of sunshine is affecting our crops but as the saying goes England in this 'green and pleasant land', us gardeners will carry on gardening and we will get a good crop of vegetables this summer!
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