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TOP JOBS FOR SEPTEMBER • TASKS FOR YOUR VEGETABLE PATCH BY JOYCE RUSSELL

THREE STEPS TO BETTER AUTUMN AND WINTER HERBS

ON THE VEG PATCH

PESTS AND PROBLEMS

IN THE GREENHOUSE

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

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THOUGHTS ON HORSE MANURE

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

GROW WITH BELLE • MAKE NATURAL PAINTS WITH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Mudketeers’ Club • If you are, that makes you a member of our Mudketeers’ Club, a dedicated website for subscribers ONLY. www.mudketeers.co.uk includes exciting offers, brand new seed variety trials, competitions and unique features just for you.

A TASTE OF EASTERN PROMISE

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

THE PILGRIM PLOTTERS • Martin Fish visits Boston in Lincolnshire, with its historic links to the Pilgrim Fathers, and finds a thriving community of growers with a concern for health and well-being at its core

TIME TO GET HERB SAVVY! • Why spend money on dried herbs when you can dry your own? Julie Moore shows you how

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

Prizes and sponsors • Each of our 12 winners will receive the following kindly given by our sponsors.

WANT TO BE OUR KG PLOTTER OF THE MONTH? • How would you like to be featured on the pages of Kitchen Garden magazine in 2022? We are inviting all readers to send in some pictures of their plots to be published next year

GIVING IT BACK WITHGREEN MANURES • Sustain the quality of your soil with green manures. Dr Anton Rosenfeld, knowledge officer of Garden Organic, surveys the options

Foraging from home • In this extract from her new book, keen forager Anna Locke encourages us all to look at our gardens in a new way, to embrace our weeds and reconnect with nature in a way many have forgotten

BAGGED AND BOTTLED! • For Stephanie Hafferty September is about preserving the harvest for winter use but also encouraging biodiversity in the garden

Rooting for liquorice • With its distinctive flavour, liquorice is one of those tastes you either love or hate. It comes from the root of a Middle Eastern herb called Glycyrrhiza glabra and Emma Rawlings explains how to grow it

FRENCH PERFECTION! • Harvesting beans of all sorts is one of the joys of summer, but none are easier to grow, faster to crop or more abundant than French beans - so says KG editor Steve Ott

STEVE’S TOP TIP

STEVE’S TOP TIP

FAVOURITE VARIETIES

A future garden with roots in the past • Garden Organic, the national horticultural charity, has opened the doors on a new organic demonstration and learning garden. We take a tour with head gardener Emma O’Neill

VISIT THE GARDEN

CHERRIES • Who would have known there are so many varieties of cherry, each a delicious nugget of tangy sweetness? Fruit expert David Patch knows... and here are his top picks

A PINK WHEELBARROW and a passion for gardening • During lockdown M T O’Donnell put her time to very good use, writing blogs, setting up a bi-monthly digital magazine and making videos, as well as creating a full and productive garden

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