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

TOP JOBS FOR MAY • ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS BY STEPHANIE HAFFERTY

UNDER COVER

ON THE PLOT WITH THE 3 Mudketeers

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

Kitchen Garden

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

A NEW Kitchen garden! • It's time for sowing and planting in the new garden and while Martin is busy with that, Jill is making a tasty asparagus soup

ASPARAGUS, PEA AND MINT SOUP

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH • Kitchen Garden readers rose to the challenge when we asked for pictures of their plots to appear in the magazine this year. It's time to meet another of our talented competition winners

HITTING THE SWEET SPOT • Welcome to the wonderful world of sweetcorn as Rob Smith takes a look at both old and newer varieties, with some growing advice too

EASY DOES IT! • As the growing season gathers pace there's one thing often in short supply: time! Ever feel like you're chasing your tail? Benedict Vanheems offers some tips to save valuable time and effort

MANAGING WEEDS, NATURALLY • Weeds are never far away but you can keep them at bay without recourse to weedkillers, says Becky Searle

Meet the apple doctor • KG editor Steve Ott chats to Glyn Smith, head gardener for the National Trust's Erddig estate in Wrexham, about his career and love of the garden he has tended for 38 years

A CORNUCOPIA OF COURGETTES • It's time to sow a first batch of tender crops such as courgettes for picking through the summer months. KG editor Steve Ott has some tips for a super harvest

BOOK REVIEWS • We review some of the latest gardening books to have arrived in the KG offices

Banish the bunnies • Rabbits can be a problem on some veg plots especially in more rural areas, and here KG deputy editor Emma Rawlings shows how to create a simple rabbit-proof fence

DISCOVERING GREAT PARTNERSHIPS • In this extract from their new book Living With The Earth Volume 2, Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer, founders of Bec Hellouin farm in Normandy, explain what plant guilds are and how they can help boost your yields

A SPACE APART • Instagrammer James Martin shares his love of gardening and how much it has helped him and his family both mentally and physically under very difficult circumstances

TRY AMARANTH! The dual-purpose veg • Garden Organic's research manager Anton Rosenfeld extols the virtues of amaranth and how to grow it

FLAVOURSOME FRUIT CURRANTS • If you want to plant some soft fruit that is easy to grow and will give you plenty of flavour, how about trying currants? asks David Patch

FLAVOURS TO SAVOUR

PRODUCT REVIEWS PLANTING TOOLS • Many of us will be planting out our precious crops soon if we haven't already done so. Here is a selection of tools and equipment you may find useful

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

GIVE AWAYS • TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAYS SEE PAGE 89 OR VISIT THE KG WEBSITE

GARDEN STORE PLUS * SUBSCRIBER SAVERS • Are you a subscriber to Kitchen Garden magazine? Then visit www.mudketeers.co.uk for details of how you can take advantage of the exclusive subscriber-only deals on these pages!

LIVING IT UP WITH MAY FARE • Nutritious and delicious, that's springtime in the kitchen with broad beans, new potatoes and rocket. More tasty recipes this month from our regular chef Anna...