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

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

ON THE VEG PATCH

THREE WAYS TO SOW

DO IT NOW

IN THE GREENHOUSE

APRIL TIPS

WHAT’S NEW? • ALL THE LATEST NEWS, PRODUCTS & FACTS FROM THE WORLD OF KITCHEN GARDENING

DID YOU KNOW?

HAVE YOUR SAY • CONTACT US WITH YOUR LETTERS AND TIPS: TFLANAGAN@MORTONS.CO.UK

FROM THE FORUM

Kitchen Garden

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

GNOME GROWN With Daucus New to growing? Try potatoes • A great crop to introduce children to growing is potatoes. Spuds are relatively quick to grow and digging them up is a real treat

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

WRITE IN AND WIN-EVERY QUESTION WINS A PRIZE!

Flea beetle • This month we take a look at a common pest affecting the brassica family

GROWING ONLINE • We dig into the world wide web to harvest great websites, blogs and tweets

NETTING ON A BUDGET

Luscious Leeks! • Rob Smith doesn’t like leeks, he loves them! This month he offers plenty of growing advice and shares his top five favourite varieties

Delightful Douneside • Some gardens are part of a fascinating story, none more so than Douneside in the quiet village of Tarland, Aberdeenshire. Freelance journalist Janice Hopper finds out more

STEPHEN'S TOP TIPS

VISITING DOUNESIDE

Let’s get growing Getting ready to sow Q&A • Here are some popular questions we get asked at KG on preparing the soil and then sowing the seeds

The essential sowing kit • Here is your basic must-have equipment for sowing in containers first

Quick crop guides • The Kitchen Garden team, comprising editor Steve Ott, deputy editor Emma Rawlings and staff writer Tony Flanagan, give their tips on growing some of their favourite crops

Under cover • A greenhouse or polytunnel is a real asset to any kitchen garden. Emma Rawlings looks at why and offers some tips on using them

SOWING CROPS UNDER COVER

POLYTUNNELS VERSUS GREENHOUSE • Which is best? Well you can’t compare easily but generally the pros and cons are as follows:

CONTAINER GROWING

BRASSICAS ARE THE BEST • This month we feature the winner of the My Best Crop category in our 2019 Plotter of the Year competition. Meet green-fingered Carl Walters from West Sussex

A CUE FOR THE GREAT OUT DOORS • You don’t need a greenhouse to grow delicious cucumbers. Colin Randel, member of the RHS Vegetable Trials Assessment Forum, reveals the best varieties for outdoor growing

WHAT IS AN AGM?

ALL ABUZZ on the plot • It’s all go on the plot as Stephanie Hafferty starts sowing but finds time to listen to the birdsong and the busy bees

GOOD EXERCISE

IN APRIL I AM SOWING…

QUIRKY CROPPERS • Bored of beetroot? Tiring of tomatoes? Fed up with French beans? Then grow something completely different, downright eccentric even! Benedict Vanheems offers some less-than-usual crops to try

FOOD FOR YOUR EARS • We chat to online gardener Richard Suggett from Littlehampton, West Sussex, otherwise known as The Veg Grower Podcast.co.uk

SEARCH OUT RICHARD’S GREAT ONLINE PAGES

BY POPULAR DEMAND • On Derby’s Ashbourne Road and District Allotments there seems to be no end to the demand for small spaces for newbie allotment gardeners to put down some roots, as Potty Plotter Elaine Crick explains

ELAINE’S TOP TIPS

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