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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
For the first Alternative Kitchen Garden Show episode for 2012 I am once again opening my seed box to examine some of the forgotten treasures that lie within. And to mark the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, I have chosen plants with an oriental theme.
Find out about soy(a) beans, podding radishes, kintsai (Chinese celery), Stem lettuce, Chop suey greens, two distinctive aubergines and kiwis.
If, after listening to the show, you’re wondering about the recipe I mention then it’s Stem Lettuce Ceasar from Ideas In Food. And I talked about chrysanthemum tea on the blog back in 2010.
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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast is released in good faith with Creative CommonsBY-NC-ND terms. You are free (and encouraged) to share, copy, distribute and transmit the podcast episodes providing you attribute them to Emma Cooper, don't use the episodes for commercial purposes and don't modify the episodes.For a full explanation of the licence, please see the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence details.
The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
For the final episode of the Alternative Kitchen Garden Show for 2011, I’m looking at frost and the effects it has on plants and gardens in temperate climates. I also look back at the successes and failures of 2011, and look forward at some of the changes coming to the garden in 2012.
If you’d like to see the photos of Pete’s Butt City improvements to our rain water collection and storage system, click through to the blog link.
Happy holidays everyone, see you in 2012!
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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
We’re delving into the herbs and spices section of my seed box this time, to see what Unsown Treasures I have found that might find a home in the garden this year. But what is the difference between a herb and a spice?
The plants covered in this show are Dill (Anethum graveolens), Cumin (Cuminum cyminum), Mistuba (Cryptotaenia japonica), Perilla (Perilla frutescens) and Cinnamon basil (Ocimum basilicum var. ‘Cinnamon’).
My trusty cumin potatoes recipe is available on the blog, and if you’re looking for those dill varieties then they’re on offer from Suffolk Herbs.
If you’re a fan of the Plants for a Future website, then please consider supporting their current fundraising campaign to help them continue with their work.
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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
If you’d like more details about the book then I reviewed it in back in May on the blog, and Dave’s website is Selfsufficientish.com, and you can find out more about his wild food walks and other events there.
During the show Dave also gives us his top tips for peat-free gardening, and if you want to know more about making your own leaf mould (or leaf mould in the US :) then listen to episode 32 of the show or check out my latest post on the BBC Gardening blog.
If you have a few spare pennies or cents then you can help support Kew’s work at the Millennium Seed Bank – The Alternative Kitchen Garden Seed Appeal is raising enough money to save an entire wild (edible!) plant species.
The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast is released in good faith with Creative CommonsBY-NC-ND terms. You are free (and encouraged) to share, copy, distribute and transmit the podcast episodes providing you attribute them to Emma Cooper, don't use the episodes for commercial purposes and don't modify the episodes.For a full explanation of the licence, please see the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence details.
The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
In today’s installment of The Alternative Kitchen Garden Show our thoughts turn to seeds. You can see what goes on behind-the-scenes at the Millennium Seed Bank on the blog, where seeds arrive, seeds are processed for storage and seeds are germination tested. If you have a few spare pennies or cents then you can help support Kew’s work at the Millennium Seed Bank – The Alternative Kitchen Garden Seed Appeal is raising enough money to save an entire wild (edible!) plant species.
I have been clearing out my seed box and updating my seed database, so today I’m sharing some of my Unsown Treasures – seeds I had forgotten I have: Okahijiki (Salsola komarovii), Ice Plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), Lemon bergamot (Monarda citriodora), Lab Lab beans (Dolichos lablab or Lablab purpureus) and Jicama (Pachyrrhizus erosus or Pachyrhizus tuberosus).
And our AKG Correspondent Thomas is back to show us around a community garden project in Melbourne, Australia. This is the composting area he describes in the show:
There’s still time to enter my Write Club 2011 guest post competition, which is running until the end of September, and of course you can take a look at all of the Write Club 2011 entries so far and vote for your favourites.
Leave me a comment, send me an email or join our Facebook group. You can get real time updates from the AKG on Twitter. If you’re interested in becoming an Alternative Kitchen Garden Correspondent then read the FAQ. You can also download the script for this episode as a PDF file.
The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast is released in good faith with Creative CommonsBY-NC-ND terms. You are free (and encouraged) to share, copy, distribute and transmit the podcast episodes providing you attribute them to Emma Cooper, don't use the episodes for commercial purposes and don't modify the episodes.For a full explanation of the licence, please see the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence details.
The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
Pete and I have been to London to find out whether Edible Insects can save the planet, and whether or not they’re actually tasty. You can see photos of what we were served on the blog.
And I am running a guest post competition on the blog throughout September, so click through to have a look at the rules if you would like to take part.
Leave me a comment, send me an email or join our Facebook group. You can get real time updates from the AKG on Twitter. If you’re interested in becoming an Alternative Kitchen Garden Correspondent then read the FAQ. You can also download the script for this episode as a PDF file.
The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast is released in good faith with Creative CommonsBY-NC-ND terms. You are free (and encouraged) to share, copy, distribute and transmit the podcast episodes providing you attribute them to Emma Cooper, don't use the episodes for commercial purposes and don't modify the episodes.For a full explanation of the licence, please see the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence details.
The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
Birch mushroom logs are just one of the many food crops from Prickly Nut Wood
In March 2011 the UK government commissioned an Independent Panel on Forestry to help determine what their future forestry policy should be. The panel’s first public consultancy period is coming to an end – you can submit your thoughts about the future of England’s forests to them via their website or via 38 Degrees, until the 31st July 2011.
In this show I offer one possible future for England’s forests. I mention Kew’s coppiced woodland at Wakehurst Place and CAT’s Coed Gwern woodland. If you’d like to know more about Ben Law’s Prickly Nut Woods then have a listen to episode 92.
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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast is released in good faith with Creative CommonsBY-NC-ND terms. You are free (and encouraged) to share, copy, distribute and transmit the podcast episodes providing you attribute them to Emma Cooper, don't use the episodes for commercial purposes and don't modify the episodes.For a full explanation of the licence, please see the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence details.
The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
The growing season is in full swing in the northern hemisphere, and my new book The Allotment Pocket Bible has just been published. It’s a guide to finding an allotment, getting it ready, looking after common crops and using your produce, but in today’s show we look at some less common plants you might want to grow if you have the space:
Chinese artichokes (Stachys affinis)
Yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius)
Tomatillos (Physalis ixocarpa)
Inca berries (Physalis peruviana or P. edulis, also known as physalis, cape gooseberries or goldenberries)
Achocha (Cyclanthera pedata or C. brachystachya)
Hardy kiwis (Actinidia arguta)
And our AKG Correspondent Thomas is joining us from Melbourne in the Southern Hemisphere to talk about a permaculture solution for getting your kitchen garden ready to grow crops – Permablitz.
This photo was taken at the 100 Melbourne blitz, and is an area of veggie beds, with wood chip path ways in an irrigation system, being created under a protective netting. The netting helps keep very sweet looking (but highly destructive) possums out.
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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast is released in good faith with Creative CommonsBY-NC-ND terms. You are free (and encouraged) to share, copy, distribute and transmit the podcast episodes providing you attribute them to Emma Cooper, don't use the episodes for commercial purposes and don't modify the episodes.For a full explanation of the licence, please see the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence details.
The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
In the northern hemisphere July and August are the time to think about planting saffron (Crocus sativus) corms, so that you can harvest the world’s most expensive spice from your own garden! I can recommend Suttons as a UK supplier of quality saffron corms, as the ones I bought from them last year flowered in their first season.
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