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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 AUGUST • Stephanie Hafferty is getting ready for next year’s crops, filling spaces, and continuing to harvest

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

BRILLIANT BRASSICAS • Think the growing season ends in autumn? Think again! Plant hardy brassicas now, and you’ll be harvesting delicious, homegrown riches right through winter and into spring, says Benedict Vanheems

OUR TOP PLOTTERS • Last 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 one of our runners-up…

BLOWING ITS OWN TROMBONE • Few vegetables combine novelty and usefulness quite so well as tromboncino. Rob Smith introduces a climbing squash that can be picked young like a courgette, or left to mature for winter use

HERB OF THE MONTH SORREL • It’s underappreciated but easy to grow, and adds a distinctive tang to your food — sorrel is well worth a try

BITTER LEAVES, BIG FLAVOUR • From winter chicons and sugarloaf chicories to colourful radicchios, Martin Fish looks at the different types available and explains how to grow them successfully

PAYBACK PLOT IS A GROWING COMMUNITY • How a Community Payback allotment is feeding families and changing lives

NEMATODES: DON’T STOP IN SPRING • Nematodes are a great way to protect productivity – but remember to apply them twice a year!

PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLE 8 INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE • Stephanie Hafferty explains how mixing crops, wildlife and useful plants can create a more resilient, productive garden - and why forest gardens are one of the most effective ways to put permaculture's eighth principle into practice

WHAT FOLLOWS WHAT? • Don't stop after harvest - keep your plot productive with follow-on crops

THOSE COMMON POTATO PROBLEMS - AND HOW TO AVOID THEM • Dr Anton Rosenfeld from Garden Organic shares advice on tackling spud challenges

GROW YOUR OWN PIZZA • Becky Searle shows how a handful of homegrown ingredients can be turned into delicious pizzas

FORGOTTEN FRUIT TO REDISCOVER • Quince, greengages, mulberries and whitecurrants may have fallen from favour, but David Patch explains why these historic fruits still earn their place in today's gardens

Too much to harvest? • Harvesting carefully-grown crops is now in full swing. But the perennial problem for gardeners is what to do with the surplus? Here's some ideas for when nature just provides too much

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

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SUMMER FIRST AID FOR YOUR VEG PLOT • How to protect crops, prioritise your efforts and keep harvesting when hot, dry weather strikes

YOUR FREE SEEDS: GROW THEM, USE THEM

PROTECTING YOUR PRODUCTIVE PATCH • KG‘s Rachel Graham tests a walk-in fruit cage and transforms a productive but unruly raspberry patch into a space that‘s easier to manage, and keep free from pests

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