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JOBS FOR THE MONTH • TASKS FOR YOUR VEGETABLE PATCH IN NOVEMBER BY JOYCE RUSSELL
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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 • It’s the time of year for a plentiful supply of apples and children will love these chocolate coated ones
KG PROBLEM SOLVER • GOT A FRUIT OR VEG PROBLEM? ASK KG FOR HELP
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SPINACH • 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 chit chat
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GOOD COMPANIONS • Choose your friends wisely, as the saying goes, and this is true of plants too, as Rob Smith explains
IN THE GREENHOUSE
ROB’S FAVOURITE COMPANIONS
NEW CATALOGUES
TIME TO TURN OVER AN OLD LEAF • Autumn is marked by dramatic change as the natural world sheds its summer cloak. Make the most of this leafy abundance by collecting what you can to make your own lovely leafmould. Benedict Vanheems will get you raking
TOP TIPS
MAKE A LEAFMOULD BIN
POTTING COMPOST RECIPES
THE CULTIVATED PLOT: FEEDING FRENZY! • This month everything is queuing up to be fed – including us, says Graham Strong in his penultimate article about starting an allotment from scratch
GET AHEAD WITH GARLIC • The season is drawing to a close for tender veg but by planting hardy crops such as garlic now you can be assured of some tasty early harvests next year, says KG editor Steve Ott
TOP TIP
GROWING IN CONTAINERS
WATCH OUT FOR
FAVOURITE VARIETIES
SMALL & MIGHTY • This season KG editor Steve Ott tried a new dwarf French bean, ‘Cala D’Or’ from Mr Fothergill’s. Did it taste as good as it looks?
Growing LIGHTING 101 • In this extract from Leslie F Halleck’s book, Plant Parenting, find out how you can use artificial lights to get a head start with seedlings and cuttings
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RAISING THE BAR • The new raised bed idea from British Recycled Plastic that’s changing the game
A WALLED GARDEN FIT FOR A PRINCE • Gardening writer Janice Hopper heads north of the border to Caithness to take a tour of the Castle of Mey and its beautiful walled garden
CASTLE OF MEY GARDENING TIPS
THE GREEN TEAM DREAM TEAM • Gardening can be a therapeutic and relaxing activity but a charity in Goole, East Yorkshire has taken this to the next level, using horticulture to help people turn their lives around. Emily Collins spoke to The Green Team to find out how they use gardening to give people a second chance.
WHAT THE VOLUNTEERS SAY
THE FUTURE
BARRICADE AND MARMALADE ! • With thefts and vandalism on allotments increasing, it seems, Sally Cunningham considers a natural prickly barrier which also produces lovely flowers and fruit for making marmalade
NATURAL REMEDIES FOR SNUFFLES AND SNEEZES • Stephanie Hafferty takes...