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 JANUARY • ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS BY BEN VANHEEMS

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

CLEANING GRAPEVINE AND WINTER HARVESTING

PLANTS ON THE MOVE

A CHRISTMAS HOE HOE HOE

GROW WITH BELLE • MAkE YOUR OWN CRESS HEAD

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

KALE UNCOVERED • More trade secrets this month from long-time gardening expert Martin Fish. Plus another nutritious and tasty recipe from his wife Jill

MARTIN'S GROWING TIPS

CHEESY KALE, LEEK AND POTATO CAKES

OUR PLOTTERS OF THE MONTH • Last year we launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would appear in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we feature the first of our talented winners

A WORLD IN SEED • Grow tasty vegetables from around the world and conserve them for future generations, says Catrina Fenton, head of Garden Organic's Heritage Seed Library

GROWING ON A BUDGET START SMALL, CARE FOR THE SOIL, MAKE COMPOST! • In the first of this new series, Stephanie Hafferty shows how you don't have to spend spadefuls of money to grow your own edibles

UNDER COVER CROPPING • With our short seasons and fickle climate, having a protected place to grow offers great advantages to fruit and veg gardeners. KG editor Steve Ott is a great fan of greenhouses and polytunnels and explains why

OUR TOP 10 EASY-GROW FRUIT • Every garden has some room for fruit and no crops are more rewarding to grow. Here is our pick of the bunch for ordering now

GROW YOUR OWN CURRY • In this new series Rob Smith will be looking at what you can grow to help you create tasty, home-made cuisine direct from your garden or allotment. This month, it's curry!

BEHIND THE GARDEN WALL • Susie Kearley visits the National Trust's Gunby Hall and Gardens in Lincolnshire and chats to the gardener in charge of the vegetable plots, Clive Ironmonger

The vegan organic garden • When it comes to soil, compost and manure, what do you need to consider to garden organically on vegan principles? Dr Anton Rosenfeld, knowledge officer of Garden Organic, offers the following insights

A chip off the old block • Following the launch of his latest book we meet horticulturist and author Nick Hamilton to chat about life with his famous TV gardening dad, Geoff, and Nick's continuing work at Barnsdale Gardens in Rutland

MAKE YOUR OWN potting compost • KG's Emma Rawlings looks at some ingredients and recipes for making your own peat-free potting compost. This month - seed compost

Go Sow MORE! • Having scoured the seed catalogues last month for his pick of the new varieties, this month KG's Tony Flanagan finds more to feast your eyes on

RHUBARD SEASON BY SEASON • Look forward to plenty of delicious rhubarb crumble as fruit expert David Patch guides you through the rhubarb year

PLANT FEEDING NATURE'S WAY • Just like us, our crops need a balanced diet if they are to thrive. Keen grower and green gardener Emily Cupit reveals her favourite organic feed-and-forget plant foods

PRODUCT REVIEWS COLD FRAMES • Cold frames are particularly useful in early spring for getting plants off to an early start and protecting them from inclement weather before planting out

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