Here you will find news from the 2012 show and updates for the 2013 show.
Gardeners' Question Time at The Edible Garden Show
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- Posted 23rd February 2011
BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time is holding a recording alongside The Edible Garden Show – a new national event dedicated to ‘Grow Your Own’ fruit and vegetables. Gardeners’ Question Time will be recorded at 2pm on Friday March 18th. In the programme, members of the audience have the chance to pose their gardening queries to a panel of renowned gardening experts. Appearing on the panel are GQT regulars and champions of the ‘grow your own’ movement: Anne Swithinbank, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew. The host will be Eric Robson. Bob Flowerdew is one of UK’s leading...Read More
Innovative products to make growing your own easier
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- Posted 22nd February 2011
Yorkshire inventor Robin Rose has created a range of ingenious products to make growing crops easier for the elderly, disabled and children – his latest is to be unveiled at The Edible Garden Show next month in a joint-venture with Hull-based social enterprise, Probe. Robin’s innovative micro-salad growing kit ‘Sproutapouch’ has captured the imagination of keen gardeners of all ages leading to global sales rocketing to over 100,000 in ten months. The unusual pouch, in which seeds germinate and are ready to eat in just six days, is being snapped up by schools across the UK and Europe...Read More
Sponsors sign up to support The Edible Garden Show 2011
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- Posted 16th February 2011
Sponsors are signing up to show their support for The Edible Garden Show 2011 – the first-ever national event dedicated exclusively to ‘Grow Your Own’ fruit and vegetables. The sensational three-day showstopper, from March 18-20 at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, brings together celebrities, experts and exhibitors to satisfy the enormous public appetite for home-grown produce, allotments, beekeeping and livestock including poultry, pigs and goats. A series of specialised events and features, each delivering unique insights into becoming more self-sufficient and healthy eating, are being...Read More
Top chef Rachel Green to front show's cookery school
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- Posted 7th January 2011
Award-winning chef and writer Rachel Green is to share her extensive experience and expertise with visitors to The Edible Garden Show 2011. Rachel – one of the UK’s foremost authorities on food – has signed up to front the WI Cookery School, which forms a key part of the spectacular three-day ‘Grow Your Own’ event taking place at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire on March 18-20. She will join experts from the Women’s Institute’s famous National Cookery School at Denman College, Abingdon, who will be providing cookery demonstrations and offering advice to visitors on everything...Read More
Grow your own fruit and vegetables without a garden
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- Posted 2nd November 2010
As thousands of people swept up by the lifestyle-changing ‘grow-your-own’ phenomenon send allotment waiting lists rocketing, innovative alternatives have emerged to help everyone join the great gardening revolution. Until now, allotment plots were considered the only viable solution for gardening enthusiasts living in flats, homes without gardens or in the heart of a bustling city. But families and budding kitchen gardeners can bring the ‘allotment’ closer to home and enjoy the grow-your-own experience on their doorsteps. Vegetables and herbs can be grown in pots on patios, window...Read More
