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.

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TOP JOBS FOR MARCH • Stephanie Hafferty sets out the key early spring jobs, guided by weather, soil and timing

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SALAD DAYS • Struggling with salads? Benedict Vanheems reveals all you need to know to grow leafy salads successfully from spring to the height of summer – even when the weather turns hot, and pests try their luck!

OUR TOP PLOTTERS • Back in the summer we launched a competition to find our Top Plotters, with the top three winning some great prizes and all being featured in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we meet our third-placed plotter…

TRY WASABI IN A SHADY SPOT • Rob Smith looks at how wasabi can be grown for its punchy leaves in the cool, shady corners where other edibles struggle

ROOTING FOR A GREAT START • Martin Fish explains how to get carrots and parsnips off to a strong, straight start, whether you're sowing outdoors or under cover

SAVE UP TO £8 ON ASPARAGUS PLANTS

HERB OF THE MONTH LOVAGE Levisticum officinale • Meet a powerful, old-fashioned favourite which definitely earns its keep, bringing height and structure outside on the plot and a delicious, deep taste to the kitchen

LIVING WITH SLUGS • Anton Rosenfeld of Garden Organic looks at practical ways to manage slugs by working with, rather than against, nature

PLANNING FOR A GREAT YIELD • Stephanie Hafferty explores number three of the 12 permaculture principles, explaining how it can help us produce more abundant gardens and allotments

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ITALIAN INFLUENCE • Lawrence Owen of Ebenezer Cottage Garden shares how Italian flavour-led growing, no-dig methods and a 10-metre greenhouse shape a calm, productive kitchen garden – and why taste will always come before yield

Start saving water now • With drier summers becoming the norm, now is the ideal moment to set up simple, practical ways to capture and store rainwater for the months ahead. In this exclusive extract from her new book The Productive Garden Stephanie Hafferty explains how to do it and offers some simple DIY solutions to help

UNSEEN HEROES OF SUPER SOIL • Becky Searle reveals how the life in your soil that you can't easily see can be encouraged to quietly improve plant health and productivity

GIVEAWAYS • TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAYS SEE PAGE 67 OR VISIT THE KG WEBSITE

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BERRY DIFFERENT • David Patch's guide to easy-to-grow, lesser-known fruiting shrubs that are as decorative as they are delicious to eat

LIGHT AND BRIGHT • From tall shelving to grow-light systems of different sizes, we compared a range of indoor grow lights using sunflower seedlings grown in identical conditions, to see which genuinely deliver uniform, healthy growth – and which fall short

READER OFFERS • EXCLUSIVE SAVINGS TO HELP MAKE YOUR MONEY GO FURTHER

USING WHAT'S READY NOW • Anna Cairns Pettigrew shares four flavour-led recipes using early spring spinach and stored beetroot – simple, flexible dishes for what's likely to be available...