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ON THE PLOT WITH THE 3 Mudketeers • The KG team offer chat, tips and gardening gossip
GNOME GROWN With Daucus Painting pots for peas • A fun thing to do with children in the winter months is to paint and sow a pot of peas
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Apple Canker • Your guide to common pests, diseases and other problems affecting your crops
GROWING ONLINE • We dig deep into the World Wide Web to harvest some great websites, tips and gardening chitchat
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Talking heritage • This month Rob Smith takes a tour of yesteryear with a look at some of his favourite heritage varieties that are neither gone nor forgotten
Kitchen Garden Christmas GIFT GUIDE
PALN MORE, GROW MORE • The winter chill may have placed the vegetable garden on hold for a while but now's your chance to plan ahead says gardening expert Ben Vanheems
EARLY VARIETIES • These early-to-rise varieties should offer you something to pull, pick or cut a few weeks ahead of the rest.
INTERCROPPING
IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER... • In this first instalment of her gardening diary, Stephanie Hafferty explains why she loves her plot in January and why, although it’s not prime sowing time, there’s always plenty to do
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Sweet leaves TO SAVOUR • It’s time to choose your seeds for sowing those delicious summer cabbages, says KG editor Steve Ott
FAVOURITE VARIETIES
A day devoted to potatoes • Thinking about buying seed potatoes? Whether you have just a few pots or half an allotment to plant, a ‘potato day’ is the place to go for them, says Sue Stickland
POTATO DAYS TO VISIT • PLEASE NOTE We have made every effort to ensure these details were correct at the time of going to press, but recommend you check with the organisers before travelling.
WINNING PLOTTERS REVEALED • In the August 2019 issue we officially launched our annual KG Plotter competition that included four categories to enter. Here we announce the winners of those groups
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Eminently EDIMENTAL • Wendy Pillar visits Pennard Plants in Somerset and surveys a range of plants that can ensure your garden is as visually attractive as it is functional
Bring back skirret! • How the mighty are fallen, says Sally Cunningham, as she considers the virtues of skirret, a once-popular root vegetable in Tudor times and now making something of a comeback
Getting Saucy WITH THREE FRUITY LADIES • A talent for making preserves soon turned into a thriving business, as Holly Farrell discovered when she visited a family and their two-acre plot in Herefordshire
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MAKING PRESERVES
BEANS ARE BEST
ON YOUR STARTER PLOT , GET SET, GROW! • See what happened when Radio Derby’s Elaine Crick and Julia Slater – The Potty Plotters – came up with yet another idea to turn an overgrown site into thriving starter allotments
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