Kitchen Garden

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.

Welcome

TOP JOBS FOR OCTOBER • ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS

UNDER COVER

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

GROW WITH BELLE • OUR SERIES FOR YOUNG GROWERS

WHAT'S NEW? • ALL THE LATEST NEWS, PRODUCTS & FACTS FROM THE WORLD OF KITCHEN GARDENING

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Kitchen Garden

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

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH • Meet another of the 12 creative and talented gardeners selected as our Plotter of the Month winners last year. Why not make a note to enter our new competition? Details on page 25

NEW TOP PLOTTER COMPETITION

A NEW kitchen garden • Autumn has arrived and Martin Fish is busy harvesting fruit and veg while Jill is serving up a tasty casserole of apple, pork and cider

NORMANDY PORK AND APPLE CASSEROLE • Traditional flavours of pork, apple and cider combine to give this casserole a light and tangy appeal.

ALL HAIL THE KALE! • Kale has a history as rich and textured as its famously curly leaves. Rob Smith, seed guardian, explains its fascinating background and recommends some top varieties

SUPERFAST COMPOST • You can't help but get excited by a steaming hot compost heap, says Benedict Vanheems! Free, nutrient-dense goodness in the form of garden compost is among the very best amendments any soil could wish for. Here's how to up your composting game

MAKE YOUR OWN POTTING COMPOST

MAKE A COMPOST BIN FROM PALLETS

The scents of added value • Growing flowers on your veg patch has many benefits. Smallholder, blogger and vlogger Jess Gough explains and offers tips on incorporating them on your plot

MAKE HEDGEROW CORDIAL

Become a thrifty organic gardener • Anton Rosenfeld from Garden Organic shares ways to reduce the impact of your gardening practices on both your wallet and the environment

FOR THE LOVE OF GARDENING • The famous Royal Welsh Show opened a new area this year, the Horticulture Village, and KG's Stephanie Hafferty was delighted to be invited to participate in this exciting venture

STEPH PLANTS A SHOW GARDEN

GARDEN OF HORRORS • Instagrammer and YouTuber Jane Kelly takes a wry look at some of those garden pests and other problems that cause havoc on our plots

GROW YOUR OWN HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS • Becky Searle immerses herself fully in the Halloween experience, growing pumpkins and popping corn to make it a memorable occasion for herself and her children

Celebrating Apple Day • It is Apple Day this month, which celebrates one of our most popular fruits. KG's Emma Rawlings suggests some events to visit plus what to consider when buying an apple tree and also a fun apple quiz to try

The compost troubleshooter • Good compost is the key to a healthy garden. In this extract from his new book, Charles Dowding, no-dig guru, offers some common sense solutions to keep your heap cooking and smelling sweet!

FROM LOCKDOWN TO LOOSE GARDENERS • Instagrammer Clare Louise McDonald started gardening during Covid to keep herself and her boys active. Since then she has never looked back, growing a wide range of vegetables and flowers

GROWING BIG WITH ONIONS • KG reader Jenny Winnard from Wigan is such a fan of the Instagram Grow Along that she decided to run one herself. Here she brings us the results of a ‘Mammoth’ onion ‘grow along’ she ran for followers of her Insta account

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