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CROP PROTECTION COVERED

Knowle Nets has been making its market-leading fruit and crop cages for over 50 years. With netting made from UV-stabilised high-density polyethylene monofilament, and all its metal fabrication done in-house, the company’s fruit and crop cages are available in a wide range of sizes. It can also make any bespoke […]

Keep it covered

Knowle Nets has been making its market-leading fruit and crop cages for more than 50 years, and has now expanded its range to include a wide array of grow-you-own products. Alongside tunnels, cloches, netting and horticultural fabrics, you’ll find tools, propagation equipment and much more. With netting made from high-density […]

Plant garlic

The autumn is a good time to plant garlic. Ideally buy from seed companies or from garden centres rather than use garlic from a supermarket. Garlic sold for planting will be varieties suited to our climate. You can start off in cell trays if you have very heavy clay soil […]

Sow some late rocket

In autumn you can still sow some rocket as it is quick growing and relatively hardy. That said as the weather is likely to be cooler try growing it in troughs or pots filled with multi purpose compost and place on a warm patio or near a wall to give […]

Harvest onions

It is mid to late summer when onion crops are harvested. It is usually easy to see that the bulbs have reached their full size and often the foliage starts to yellow and bend over. This is the point when the bulbs are unlikely to put on any more growth […]

A mixture of mung bean, alfalfa and radish

Your indoor salad bar – all year round

There is a simple way to enjoy home-grown salads all year long and that is by growing sprouting seeds. KG editor Steve Ott explains. With all the food shortages in the supermarkets at the moment and, as I write this, snow falling heavily outside making working in the garden impossible, […]

Spinach in troughs

Spinach is a great cut-and-come-again crop for growing in pots and troughs. A shallow trough is ideal because you don’t use too much compost and there is a larger growing surface for greater harvests. The seed is literally sprinkled over the surface with the seeds about 5mm apart. Lightly sprinkle […]

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