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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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A NEW Kitchen garden! • Having made a start on clearing the ground, Martin Fish now sets about creating the raised beds and placing his compost bin in the right spot. Meanwhile, Jill serves up something sweet and deliciously tangy

RHUBARB AND LEMON CAKE

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH • Kitchen Garden readers really rose to the challenge when we asked for pictures of their plots to appear in the magazine this year. It’s time to meet another of our 12 creative and talented Plotter of the Month winners

A BEAN FOR EVERY GARDEN • You’ll be amazed at justt how many varieties of French beans there are, both old and new. Rob Smith takes us on a tour of some of his favourites

BEDS ON A BUDGET • Setting up and filling raised beds doesn’t come cheap. But there are ways of keeping the cost relatively low, as Benedict Vanheems demonstrates

STEP BY STEP CHEAP FILLERS (1)

STEP BY STEP CHEAP FILLERS (2)

MAKE YOUR OWN TOPSOIL • Becky Searle explains the complex nature of soil, its principal constituents and how it is structured. She also shows how easy it is to create your own

Seed sowing Q&A • Here we feature some common questions about seed sowing. Turn to page 50 for a great pull-out sowing chart

Kitchen Garden SOWING PLANNER

MIND THE GAP • Garden Organic’s Anton Rosenfeld shows you how to plug the ‘hungry gap’ in spring and have ready supplies of home-grown food all year round

HUW'S HEROES! • This month Huw Richards explains a method of organising your choice of crop varieties – with reliable stalwarts on the one side and those offering something more demanding on the other

FLOWERS TO feast on! • In this extract taken from A Floral Feast: A Guide to Growing and Cooking with Edible Flowers, Foliage, Herbs and Seeds, Carolyn Dunster focuses on three beautiful and popular annuals

HARD TO BEET • Tony Flanagan offers a whistle-stop guide to growing this much-loved root and picks out some varieties you might like to try

TOP PICKS

Paying it forward • We meet Ross Pearson, a gardening writer and horticultural lecturer from Northumberland, who was inspired and helped by his grandfather and now passes on his experience to the next generation of gardeners

THE CREATURE FEATURE Beauty and the thief • We all know how valuable bees are on the plot − without their pollinating power, our harvests would be pretty pathetic. This month, Jack Edmonds takes a look at some common April plot visitors, the mining bees, and the parasitic nomad bees out to spoil their fun…

ASPARAGUS TIPS • Asparagus can be expensive to buy in the shops, but given a little space and time, it’s easy to grow this gourmet treat in your own back garden. Here’s how…

SAVE UP TO £8 ON ASPARAGUS PLANTS

FLAVOURSOME FRUIT GROWING IN CONTAINERS • Want to grow fruit in pots on your patio or in your backyard? Top tips and advice this month from fruit expert David Patch

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