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Featured crops for December

Welcome

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

UNDER COVER

ON THE POWER WITH THE 3 Mudketeers • The KG team offer chat, tips and gardening gossip

GROW WITH BELLE TWIG STARS • Hi! I’m Belle and I’m here every month to share lots of fun activities for you to do at home, on your own or with your family

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

BRUSSELS SPROUTS UNCOVERED • While Martin Fish shares the secrets of growing one of Yuletide’s favourite veg, Jill serves up a dreamy, creamy dish to savour

CREAMY SPROUTS

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH • Meet our final 2023 Plotter of the Month. But we’re cropping a whole new bunch of winners to appear in Kitchen Garden next year. If you’d like to show off your plot, get your entry in now!

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 stand a chance of winning some great prizes is fill in a questionnaire and send in some pictures of you and your plot.

THE RESILIENT GARDEN • After her first year of gardening on a wet and windy hillside in Wales, Stephanie Hafferty reveals some of the simple things she is doing to help weatherproof her plot

KG’S TOP 5 PARSNIPS

GROW YOUR OWN CHRISTMAS DINNER • Get ready for the festive season with your home-grown veg, says Rob Smith, as he surveys the array of options from potatoes to parsnips to sweet and savoury sauces

THE STORY OF A SHED • Jane Kelly dreamed about a refashioned shed for her allotment. So did it turn out to be the dream shed she had envisaged?

THE CREATURE FEATURE Worms Earth’s great recyclers • Nature watcher Jack Edmonds explores the secrets of one of the most unnoticed, yet most important creatures on the planet

RIGHT ON KEW • Daniel Heighes pays a visit to Kew Gardens’ kitchen garden and finds there is much more to it than growing fruit and veg

ALL THE BETTER FOR GROWING IT! • Take charge of your own health, says Becky Searle, and reap the benefits of home-grown food

ORGANIC MYTHS BUSTED • Garden Organic’s Anton Rosenfeld shatters some of the common myths about organic gardening

NEW PEPPERS FOR 2024! • It’s time to get excited about peppers again. Tony Flanagan surveys some of the tempting varieties – both sweet and chilli – now gracing the catalogues

OPERA, WINE AND GROW YOUR OWN • This month we meet Aussie-born veg grower and wine connoisseur SusyB who just loves to share her knowledge with her 100k+ followers on Instagram

STARTING OUT • Taking on an allotment can be both a daunting and challenging adventure. At the same time you are embarking on an exciting and enjoyable journey, as Hannah Reid explains

WINTER JOBS FOR THE FRUIT GARDEN • It might be the season of cold and frosty weather but there are still plenty of tasks to be getting on with when it comes to apples, pears and certain soft fruits, as David Patch explains

PRODUCT REVIEWS WINTER BOOTS • We’ve been keeping our toes warm, dry and cosy this winter with boots made to withstand the rain and cold. Here are the ones we tried...