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ON THE PLOT WITH THE 3 Mudketeers • The KG team offer chat, tips and gardening gossip
GNOME GROWN With Daucus Grow sunny sunflowers • A flower every child and adult adores is the sunflower. Its beaming yellow flowers tower above everything else and it is relatively easy to grow.
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Damping off • Your guide to common pests, diseases and other problems affecting your crops
GROWING ONLINE • We dig into the world wide web to harvest great websites, blogs and tweets
POT CARROTS
Long live the perennials • Rob Smith takes a look at vegetables that you plant once and then keep on cropping for a year or more
NOVELTY VEG
PERENNIAL KALE
TAKING DAUBENTON KALE CUTTINGS
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Grow tomatoes galore! • This month KG editor Steve Ott offers his top tips on growing a UK garden and greenhouse favourite, the tomato
FAVOURITE VARIETIES • This is almost impossible since there are so many to choose from and varieties that are ideal for different uses. Here are just a few of my more recent favourites.
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Samphire SALT OF THE EARTH • Though hard to come by commercially, samphire is a crop that you can grow yourself. KG reader Tom Hall-Martell explains
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PLOTTING TOGETHER • This month we feature the winner of the My Friends and Family Plotting category of our 2019 competition
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DWARF BEANS ON TRIAL • Colin Randel reports on the latest AGM dwarf bean trials held at Wisley in 2019
WHAT IS AN AGM?
DWARF BEANS ON THE HIGH STREET
HOBBITS, HOBBITON AND HORTICULTURE • In his antipodean peregrinations Martin Fish may not have stumbled on any hobbits, but he did discover their very English cottage gardens and plenty of fruit and veg
Spring is on its way! • It’s March and Stephanie Hafferty is noticing definite signs of spring in her garden and is looking forward to getting sowing, but there is still some harvesting to do
THIS MONTH
RHUBARB AND SWEET CICELY LIQUEUR
SPINACH HUMMUS
YOUR FREE SEEDS • Get the most from your seeds free with Kitchen Garden magazine this month
Out on bales • Vegetables growing out of straw bales? Yes, it’s really a thing! Straw bale gardening is becoming more popular with kitchen gardeners looking to save time, energy and money. Try it and prepare to be amazed, promises Benedict Vanheems
GRASPING AT STRAW
HOW TO CONDITION A BALE
HOW TO PLANT A BALE
Prodigious palms • Palm trees are not just a pretty picture, says Sally Cunningham, as she discovers that the flowers of the Chusan palm are actually edible
ONE TO TRY Dream peppers • If you’re looking for a pepper plant that produces lots of fruit and is pleasing on the eye too, says Tony Flanagan, why not try ‘Lemon Dream’ and its sister plant ‘Tangerine Dream’?
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