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.

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

A NEW kitchen garden! • Martin Fish has plenty to harvest this month, both fruit and veg, while Jill serves up a sweet and juicy fruit tart

OUR PLOTTER 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. Meet another of our creative and talented winners

PLUS • Each of our 12 winners will receive a bundle of prizes worth over £177 kindly given by our sponsors Spear & Jackson and Burpee Seeds and also Kitchen Garden magazine and HTA Garden Vouchers

THE CASE FOR CABBAGES • Make room for cabbages, says Rob Smith. They are versatile in the kitchen and with careful planning you can grow them all year round

ATTACK BACK! • Pests wearing you down? It's time to pick yourself – and your plants – up and fight back! Benedict Vanheems has some organic, nature-friendly ideas that will help regain the upper hand

HOW TO HELP HOVERFLIES

FREE YOURSELF FROM FERTILISERS • Plants need regular feeding to grow, right? Well, not according to top organic gardener Becky Searle who cares for a thriving fertiliser-free veg patch

A SPACE FOR YOUNG GREEN FINGERS • Educating children how to grow their own is a valuable life skill, as garden writer Sally Clifford found out when she joined young plotters on their allotment in York

START SUMMER SOWINGS • If you want to know what you can sow now, KG's deputy editor Emma Rawlings has some suggestions

GREENER WAYS with greenfly • Greenfly getting the better of you? Garden Organic's research manager Anton Rosenfeld shares his tips for controlling them

PICK A PECK OF PEPPERS… FROM THE PATIO • KG editor Steve Ott developed pepper envy last season when visiting a seed company's trials. Pepper plants were thriving in growing bags, so he decided to try the same himself this season

PLANTING STEP BY STEP

Make the most of your under cover growing • You can maximise the potential for all-year harvests with succession growing under cover. This month Huw Richards explains how he does it on his own plot

YOUR FREE SEEDS • This month your free seeds include three easy to grow and versatile favourites – perpetual spinach, rocket and lettuce. Here's how to get the best from yours

BLOOMIN’ BOLTING! • It can be a little frustrating when your treasured veggies produce flowers instead of tasty roots or leaves, but why do they do it and is it a problem or an opportunity?

LOVE IS… • Despite some physical challenges, Instagrammer and mental health ambassador Sarah Pharis just loves to grow veg, and plenty of it!

TEACHING KIDS TO GROW • Getting children inspired to grow vegetables is something that mum and social entrepreneur Milly Fyfe is very keen on. Here are her top tips

FLAVOURSOME FRUIT IN THE GREENHOUSE • So what fruit is best for the greenhouse? This month David Patch presents his top four, plus lots of advice on looking after your greenhouse-grown fruit

PRODUCT REVIEWS BATTERY POWERED TOOLS • Battery-run power tools are increasing in the gardening market and make a great...