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For the love of grow-your-own. Pictures, ideas and chat from Guardian journalist Kim Stoddart

Growing at least some of your own food is one of the most empowering and life-affirming experiences out there. Especially when you learn to let nature in to lend a helping hand. All of our courses also help fund our work with people on the autistic spectrum via Green Rocket Futures C.I.C

17/06/2026

I'm going to start doing videos again as it's been a long, long while. Nothing fancy as I don't have time, but down-to-earth practical tips on extreme weather gardening, money-saving and boosting results naturally in the garden for person, plate and planet. 🌱
These are all topics I've been writing and teaching about for a long, long time.

From my gardening for free days for the Guardian back in 2013, to talks for the RHS, interviews in the media, to the many hands-on courses I've run from my training gardens over the years, I'm a longstanding expert on extreme weather gardening and I've won environmental journalist of the year and practical gardening journalist of the year awards for my work. I also run a super low maintenance but very productive community garden near to me in Wales with a lovely bunch of volunteers. 💚

I'd love to hear which topics you would especially like me to cover over the weeks ahead. 💚💚

08/06/2026

I'm super excited to share a look at the current wildlife special issue of Amateur gardening magazine from our fantastic family of gardening experts.

It comes with free seed worth £6.48 which the images show and a closer-up look at the cover and contents. 🌞

It features all the latest practical gardening ideas including fantastic foxgloves, easy ways to help wildlife, sweetcorn and tomato growing tips, planting for summer harvests, pebble plants, indigo, fuss -free cut flowers, companion planting, perky petunias, radiant roses, jobs for the fortnight, Ask AG and much more besides.

Plus there's an article from me with some of the down-to-earth resilient gardening inspiration from the recent RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

We hope you enjoy 💚

This issue, our merry band of brilliant AG expert contributors include Ruth Hayes, Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank, Kim Stoddart, Lucy Chamberlain, Michael Perry, Rosie Irving, John Negus, Mike Palmer, Kelly-Jane Leach, Graham Clarke, Andrew Oldham, Chris Collins, Liz Zorab and Toby Buckland. With thanks our fab designer Lee
Caple and Sue Bradley and the team at Kelsey Media.

31/05/2026

How the plants at the community garden thrived with no watering during the heatwave with a selection of images and tips. 🌞

I had a lovely morning yesterday at the community garden I run near to me in Wales. I'm only here a few days a month so it has be extra low-maintenance and resilient but attractive and productive at the same time. I haven't been on site since the 15th May when I last run a workshop here. Here's how this worked with NO watering since then:

💚 Use of stone around young plants protects the soil from drying out and can provide some support and part shade
💚The mixed planting system I also use which I like to call free-planting means there are many tall plants which provide some part shade relief for young plants. There's lots of fennel, rocket, Swiss chard and perpetual spinach from last year (which I cut back so it grows on and many herbs)
💚I mulched the plants well after deep watering before the heatwave to provide further soil protection
💚 The garden is no-dig and I bring in seedlings from my gardens with lots of mycorrhizal fungi to boost natural soil resilience
💚Heat can make plants more sensitive to so-called pests such as aphids and I did notice some of the apple trees had some, then I spotted all the ladybirds, ants and wasps which were feeding off the aphids so I let it be (this in the last image).

I use stone here because it was in ample supply in the grounds and because I believe in working with locally and freely available materials and it works so incredibly well in these beds and borders protecting plants and encouraging natural pest predators.

How do you use stone in the garden? I'd love to hear. ✨

23/05/2026

Happy bank holiday weekend everyone and happy birthday to Amateur Gardening magazine! 142 years-old this month!!

In the latest issue, which is of course packed full of down-to-earth advice from our friendly family of gardening experts we feature ….amazing alliums, lessons from the past for the future, fibre-rich foods and recipes, small plants with big impact, gardening with wildlife, radiant raspberries, dahlias for free, hugelkulture beds, jobs for the fortnight, Ask AG and much more besides.

There’s also a feature from me on food growing for wider wellbeing.

Plus free seed worth £5.98 and a 24-page herb guide!

This issue, our merry band of brilliant AG expert contributors include Ruth Hayes, Bob Flowerdew,, Anne Swithinbank, Kim Stoddart, Sue Bradley, Lucy Chamberlain, Michael Perry, Rosie Irving, John Negus, Mike Palmer, Graham Clarke, Andrew Jackson, Ross Pearson, Nick Hamilton, Liz Zorab and Toby Buckland!
We hope you enjoy

Kim and team AG

xx

20/05/2026

More down-to-earth inspiration from RHS Chelsea Flower Show Preview Day on Monday.

Bold ,colourful yet resilient planting and designs, upcycled planters, more fantastic people, the importance of opportunities for school gardening, quiet reflection and so much more. 💚✨

19/05/2026

A fabulous time at RHS Chelsea Flower Show preview day yesterday. Lots of team AG there scouting out ideas and inspiration for the magazine. Here are just some of us pictured and page on for some of the amazing garden features and designs.

Bright bold, joyful colours, nature-friendly planting, and much hope for sustainable gardening for the future was my take home here. It's fantastic to see how much the gardens have moved in this important direction over the years. 💚💚

15/05/2026

I was a bit worried about the newly planted out courgettes and sunflowers at the community garden with the crazy weather (and hail) here in w Wales this week, but I needn't have, as they are doing well. The mixed planted border has lots of tall-growing Swiss chard, perpetual spinach, chive, cottagers kale and other planting that affords protection and I use a lot of stone around new plants, and mulched the ground as well.
I'm only at the gardens a few times a month so the resilient gardening methods I've been writing about over the years and which are featured in my book The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden (see last image) work incredibly well. It's such a productive, biodiverse and low maintenance space. I use stone salvaged from the site around plants throughout the year which helps protect the soil, and plants growing, and provides an attractive habitat for brilliant predators such as spiders, earwigs and ground beetles. In a wet summer I'd just check a bit more underneath for slugs but it all works so well. 💚🌱

09/05/2026

I'm excited to share a peek at the latest issue of Amateur Gardening magazine which is a low-cost gardening special!

There are features on cheery cosmos, the easiest wildflowers and annuals to grow to brighten summer gardens, plants for natural pest control, good bugs, right compost, right place tips, healthier carrot growing, garden design, jobs for the fortnight, Ask AG and much more besides.

Plus articles from me on the fastest-growing crops to boost home-grown goodness. 🥗🥕

We hope you enjoy. Happy gardening weekend!

Kim x 🌱✨

This issue, our merry band of brilliant AG expert contributors include Ruth Hayes, Bob Flowerdew,, Anne Swithinbank, Kim Stoddart, Lucy Chamberlain, Michael Perry, Rosie Irving, John Negus, Mike Palmer, Graham Clarke, Sue Bradley, Manoj Malde, Chris Collins, Liz Zorab and Toby Buckland!

28/04/2026

Upbeat practical gardening ideas from our friendly family of leading experts in the latest issue of Amateur Gardening magazine. ✨

From penny-wise plants, to ornamental grasses, perennial pots that pop, companion planting, modern crop rotation, jobs for the fortnight, vertical/ small space gardening ideas, the good slug guide, wildlife watch, Ask AG and much more besides.

We hope you enjoy

x Kim

This issue, our merry band of brilliant AG expert contributors include Ruth Hayes, Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank, Kim Stoddart, Lucy Chamberlain, Michael Perry, Rosie Irving, John Negus, Mike Palmer, Graham Clarke, Chris Jesson, Dr Anton Rosenfeld, Nick Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Leigh Johnstone, Liz Zorab and Toby Buckland!

17/04/2026

Bath botanical gardens in bloom

I had the pleasure to spent a day visiting these gardens on a work trip recently - here are just some of my favourite images. These wildlife-rich gardens really are impressive with a great gardening team working hard behind the scenes. I was impressed!

I hope everyone has a great gardening weekend

X Kim

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