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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 DECEMBER • ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS BY STEPHANIE HAFFERTY

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

GROW WITH BELLE • HOW PERMEABLE IS YOUR SOIL?

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

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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

A NEW kitchen garden • Martin Fish is looking to his winter crops while Jill is rustling up something tasty and warming for the festive season

STUNNING ONIONS! • It might be a bit of a cliché to say that someone knows their onions, but Rob Smith really does know his onions, and he loves them!

ROOTING for CELERIAC • In his book, The Seed Hunter, Mitch McCulloch shares his passion for growing heirloom crops. In this extract he focuses on celeriac, a tasty root vegetable often overlooked

PACK IT IN! • Growing more food doesn't necessarily mean more space, just careful planning and a little strategic thinking. Benedict Vanheems shares some ideas for upping yields without expanding ever outwards

A HAPPY DISCOVERY • Keen kitchen gardener Milly Fyfe first visits Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, the renowned hotel, restaurant and gardens of Raymond Blanc OBE, and is treated to a walk around the Lost Orchard

The hidden heroes of the underworld • Anton Rosenfeld from Garden Organic reveals how mycorrhizae benefits your soil and plants

MAGNIFICENT MALVERN! • Once again, staff writer Tony Flanagan is let loose, this time heading west to lovely Worcestershire and the Malvern Autumn Show

The CHOSEN ONES • One of the joys of working for KG is that the team get to try out new crops each year. Here is a selection of some of the varieties they have been growing in 2024

A SMALL ACT OF REBELLION • Growing your own is not only beneficial to mental and physical health, says Becky Searle, it is also, however little, a turning away from modern systems of food production

12 ‘garden' days of Christmas • We all know the 12 days of Christmas song. Here we have the 12 ‘garden' days of Christmas for inspiration and ideas to escape on to your plot when it all gets a bit much

FRUIT FIT FOR A KING • KG editor Steve Ott travels to Eastgate in Norfolk to meet Jane Steward, artisan food producer, author and holder of the National Collection of Medlars

ALL THE WAY FROM ZIMBABWE • Sally Clifford joins Zimbabwean grower, Themba Mtonga, on his West Yorkshire plot

HERB OF THE MONTH BASIL

Let's hear it for the volunteers! • Landport Community Garden, Lewes is a vibrant hub of activity. Gardener and volunteer co-ordinator Mary Hill takes a break from her plot to tell KG all about it

FLAVOURSOME FRUIT DELECTABLE DAMSONS! • This month, David Patch takes a look at the damson, a fruit with a fascinating history and one that, being tolerant of cold, rain and wind, does well in the UK

PRODUCT REVIEWS GIFTS FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON • It's that time of year when we start thinking of gifts for our nearest and dearest. Here's our festive five for the gardeners in your life

BOOK REVIEWS • We review some of the latest gardening books to have arrived in the KG offices

THE FOOD FORWARD GARDEN •...