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JOBS FOR THE MONTH • TASKS FOR YOUR VEGETABLE PATCH IN DECEMBER BY JOYCE RUSSELL

ON THE VEG PATCH

CHECK STORED CROPS

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IN THE GREENHOUSE

WHAT TO DO IN DECEMBER

DECEMBER TIPS

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

GNOME GROWN With Daucus Making chocolate apples • Here is an easy project for children to get involved in and all you need is brown paper, paint and a potato

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

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CANE FRUITS INCLUDING RASPBERRIES, LOGANBERRIES & BLACKBERRIES • Your guide to common pests, diseases and other problems affecting your crops, with Guy Barter, chief horticultural adviser for the RHS

SPUD LOVE • With potatoes on his mind, Rob Smith advises on selection, offers some top tips and shares some of his favourite varieties

TOP TIP

Kitchen Garden Christmas GIFT GUIDE

EDIBLE EDGES • With so much of our effort focused on what’s growing in the garden, it’s easy to forget what’s going on at the edges. Garden boundaries such as walls and fences offer tantalising – and tasty – opportunities to grow even more food. Benedict Vanheems asks: are you making the most of them?

HEDGE YOUR BETS

CALL UP THE CORDONS

TIN POT ALLEY

FRUIT TREE SUPPLIERS

SLOE START

GROWING ON THE WEB • Vlogger Nic Ashford’s plots are located in Bidford-on-Avon alongside the river. Here he shares his long-standing passion for growing fruit and veg

SUCCEED WITH CAULIFLOWERS • Cauliflowers have a reputation for being a challenge, but persevere and they can be a highly rewarding – and tasty – veg to grow, says KG editor, Steve Ott

TOP TIP

CAULIFLOWER RICE

FAVOURITE VARIETIES

WHERE THERE'S MUCK THERE'S MAGIC • Hundreds of years of manure have helped create a growing oasis on Exmoor. Gardening writer Steve Neal visited this delightful farm garden to discover more

PRIZED PLUM

ROB’S FAVOURITE VARIETIES:

ROB’S TOP TIPS

PROTECTING OUR NATIVE POLLINATORS • Pollinators play a vital role in mankind’s ability to produce crops, says Julie Moore. So who are they and what can we do to care for them?

SUPER SEEDS FOR 2020! • It’s winter! It’s cold outside and the days are short So what better than to pull up an armchair by the fire and see what exciting new veg seed varieties are on offer for 2020? And there’s plenty to get excited about, says Tony Flanagan

PICK A PEPINO • Sally Cunningham stumbles on an old friend, the ‘melon pear’, a succulent, attractive and low maintenance shrub that will do well in a conservatory or porch

SUPPLIERS

HOME SWEET HOME • Use store cupboard ingredients, home-grown herbs and fruit to create your own unique home fragrances. They make thoughtful Christmas gifts too, says Stephanie Hafferty

DRYING

USING LEFTOVERS

GIFTS

THE CULTIVATED PLOT: A YEAR TO TREASURE • In the last of the series, Sally and Graham Strong are both looking back on what they have achieved in a year and forward to the plot of the future

FESTIVE DINNER •...