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Kitchen Garden Magazine - UK's No.1 for growing your own fruit and vegetables. KG also offers great monthly give-aways, special gardening offers, recipes, growing tips and much more.

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TOP JOBS FOR NOVEMBER • ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS BY BEN VANHEEMS

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ON THE PLOT WITH THE 3 Mudketeers

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QUESTION TIME • GOT A FRUIT OR VEG PROBLEM? ASK KG FOR HELP

WINTER SQUASHES UNCOVERED • Martin Fish brings his expertise to bear on growing winter squashes while wife Jill serves up a delicious creamy roast

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH • Last year we launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would appear in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Meet more of our creative and talented winners

WANT TO BE OUR KG PLOTTER OF THE MONTH? • We are inviting all readers to enter our latest competition to find the 12 plotters who will feature on the pages of Kitchen Garden next year. All you need to do to enter and win some great prizes is fill in a questionnaire and send in some pictures of you and your plot.

WORTH OVER €177! • All readers who are picked to be our Plotter of the Month 2024 will each receive a great bundle of prizes

THE QUESTIONNAIRE 2024

TAKING CARE OF TOOLS • Keeping your garden tools clean and oiled is a good way to make them last for years. Stephanie Hafferty has some great ideas to help

KG'S TOP 5 GARLIC • November is here and it's planting time for garlic – one of the joys of the autumn season

GROW YOUR OWN STORE CUPBOARD STAPLES • Now is the time to top up your winter reserves, says Rob Smith as he reveals his favourite winter standbys

LITTLE GREEN FINGERS • Mark Alexander very much involves his son in the work of the family garden. Here he offers some suggestions of the kinds of activity that are both productive and fun for a young child on the plot

TOP FIVE VEG

NEW TOMATOES FOR 2024!

A garden made to inspire • We chat to Nick Fraser, head gardener of the National Trust's Nunnington Hall in North Yorkshire – and take a tour of its lovely organic gardens

WHODUNNIT, AND WHO WON IT? • This month, the KG team visited the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show – and what a treat it was! Here are some of the highlights the KG supersleuths tracked down

DO F1 HYBRIDS HAVE A PLACE IN ORGANIC HORTICULTURE? • Anton Rosenfeld, research manager at Garden Organic, weighs up the pros and cons of F1 hybrids as part of an organic growing system

CHECKING YOUR SOIL PH • Good soil is so essential for plant health and this month Becky Searle looks at why pH is so important

THE CREATURE FEATURE STRANGER THINGS The remarkable world of parasitic wasps • This month Jack Edmonds explores the fascinating if somewhat gory world of the parasitic wasp and how it uses cabbage white caterpillars for its own ends

VEG IN A BAG • Faced with appalling soil impossible for growing crops, smallholder John Bezzant found a solution using biodegradable plastic bags

SOW, GROW, EAT! • Hannah Reid recounts her experience of growing fresh organic produce and microgreens for a Gateshead restaurant

EXCLUSIVE KG OFFER: SAVE 15% ON COLOURFUL CRAB APPLE TREES!

CRAB APPLES SEASON BY SEASON • Great blossom, a reliable cropper and perfect for jams and jellies, the crab apple has much to commend it, says David Patch

PRODUCT REVIEWS BIRD FEEDERS • Give a thought to the birds this winter with these bird feeders, from simple designs to an...