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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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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 • This month Martin Fish is clearing away the runner beans and planting garlic while Jill serves up a tasty winter warmer with potatoes, leeks and ham

POTATO, LEEK AND HAM BAKE

NOW, THERE’S LUSH! • This month Rob Smith takes a look at lovely leeks, from popular heirloom varieties to the latest hybrids

Magical mushrooms • There’s something otherworldly yet incredible about mushrooms. If you’re looking for something quick and easy to grow this winter, look no further. Benedict Vanheems shines a light on the ‘dark side’ of kitchen gardening!

STEP-BY-STEP: HOW TO GROW OYSTER MUSHROOMS IN A BUCKET

STEP-BY-STEP: HOW TO GROW MUSHROOMS ON LOGS

CHOOSE YOUR ‘SHROOM

Kitchen Garden Christmas GIFT GUIDE • If you are looking for a gift idea for a friend or relative, how about one of these great products from some of our most trusted advertisers? Any gardener would be delighted to some of these goodies in their stocking this Christmas!

THE JAM-MAKING MONK • Sally Clifford meets Father Thomas Seville, whose love of jam-making prompted him to pen his own book

How to compost weeds • Garden Organic’s research manager Anton Rosenfeld talks you through what weeds can be composted and how to do it successfully

Hurrah for Harrogate! • The Harrogate Autumn Flower Show is one of the highlights of the festival year. So in September, staff writer Tony Flanagan headed up the A1 to spend a few hours sampling its many delights

The pallet plot • Gardeners love to recycle and upcycle materials and one of the popular items put to good use is the pallet. Emma Rawlings looks at some of the creative ideas people have had using pallets on their plots

Wildlife gardens are happy gardens • A lovely garden makes us happy. It also attracts wildlife, including some less welcome visitors, but all it takes to bring harmony is to find a balance and to adjust our mindset, as ecologist Becky Searle explains

A FLAVOUR OF THE COAST: AGRETTI & SAMPHIRE • Pick your own fresh agretti and samphire with advice from a great new book: RHS Grow Your Own Veg Through The Year

LANCASHIRE HOT PLOTS • Since Jean Hanson took over as secretary of her local allotment society near Burnley in Lancashire, the site has gone from strength to strength. We wanted to discover more

PRESERVING HISTORY • Wilkin and Sons has been producing quality jams and preserves from its site in Tiptree, Essex since 1885 and much of the fruit is picked from its own orchards, as KG editor Steve Ott discovered

TUBERS YOU CAN TRUST • If you are looking for one veg that could feed the family all year round with virtually no effort, look no further than Jerusalem artichokes. So says KG...