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TOP JOBS FOR DECEMBER • ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS BY BEN VANHEEMS

PLANT NEW FRUIT STEP BY STEP

PESTS AND PROBLEMS!

TEND TO FRUIT

UNDER COVER

FORCE CHICORY

LIFT AND STORE ROOTS STEP BY STEP

MAKE A TOOL RACK

KEY JOBS FOR DECEMBER

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

SEED SAVING, CORIANDER AND CABBAGE

‘SUNGOLD’ SIMPLE SOUP

NEVER ENDING!

GROW WITH BELLE • MAKE SEED PAPER CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS

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

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

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

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH • Last year we officially launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would feature in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we feature another of our talented winners

A hall, a walled garden and heritage apples! • Martin Fish visits a walled garden in Lancashire to find a gardening team committed to an environmentally friendly approach to growing

WHAT A YEAR! • This month Stephanie Hafferty reflects on a year of hard work and takes satisfaction from what she has been able to achieve in a relatively short space of time

MAKE A SIMPLE STAND FOR MICROGREENS • You don’t have to grow outside for a nutrient-rich crop. Try microgreens indoors, says Joyce Russell, and why not make something to stand them on too?

HOW TO USE THE MICROGREEN SYSTEM

SOME TIPS

MAKING CHRISTMAS WREATHS • It has long been a tradition to hang wreaths on doors at Christmas and you can also add a few edible highlights which you may have grown on your plot

CHILLI AND GARLIC WREATH

ROB’S PLOT Christmas cheer! • It might be a bleak midwinter but Rob Smith is on his plot happily getting on with a range of December tasks

A WOODLAND OF edible treats • Communities have the power to create some amazing projects when they work together and one such venture in the town of Buckingham led to the creation of a forest garden that is open for all to enjoy. Kathryn Clover visited to find out more

GROWING ORGANIC VEG ALL YEAR ROUND • Dr Anton Rosenfeld, knowledge officer of Garden Organic, explains how you can have tasty veg to harvest every month of the year

TWO’S COMPANY • Finding themselves on adjacent plots and with lots in common, Nathan and Daniel decided to join forces and so nathanielsallotment was born

NATHANIELS ALLOTMENT

Kitchen Garden Christmas GIFT GUIDE • Stuck for a gift for a gardening friend or relative? We’ve pulled together a super selection of inspirational gift ideas from some of our most trusted advertisers

EQUIP YOURSELF FOR HEALTH THIS CHRISTMAS

BEAUTIFUL PLANTS DELIVERED

FULL OF BEANS! • Keen to cultivate a nitrogen-rich soil, Jacob Shooter sows a large plot of field beans and reaps a plentiful crop too

10 WAYS TO… Help wildlife • In the first of our new top tips series we focus on caring for the wildlife in your garden. Here are some simple ways to help repay creatures big and small for all the help and pleasure they provide throughout the year

A glut of fruit? So what next? • It has been a great year for fruit but what can you do with the burgeoning harvest? David Patch offers suggestions

MAKING NEW DISCOVERIES • One of the many advantages of growing your own...