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

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 feature another of our runners-up

PRICKING OUT & POTTING UP • This month Martin Fish offers practical advice and top tips for two essential gardening tasks

BEYOND THE PLOT BEETROOT • If you’re looking for a vegetable that you can preserve well, look no further than beetroot. There are so many different ways you can do this, as Rob Smith explains

CLIMBING HIGH • It’s really hard to beat beans for their good looks and outstanding yields. Benedict Vanheems offers some pointers to pack in the pods this summer

GROWING VEG AND GROWING COMMUNITY • Tanya Bowman joined her local community garden and ended up not just helping to grow veg but also helping to grow the enterprise to involve more people and the wider community

PROTECTING OUR PLANT HERITAGE • Experts at Garden Organic share their experience of looking after three National Plant Collections – and what it takes to secure this horticultural heritage for future generations

The VEG-GROWING VETERANS • The therapeutic and well-being benefits of gardening are well known. Sally Clifford visits a veterans’ allotment, a place where plotters have time to talk and the chance to grow produce for the wider community

GROW FLAVORSOME FENNEL • Florence fennel, with its feathery leaves and white bulb-like stems that have many culinary uses, is a versatile vegetable that’s also an attractive plant to have on your plot

Fresh food for the impatient • Garden Organic’s Anton Rosenfeld shares his tips for quick and easy windowsill greens

GROW A TASTE THAT'S UNFORGETTABLE • Home-grown produce always tastes better but harvesting your first melon is one moment you will always remember. Emma Rawlings has some tips on growing this delicious fruit

Keeping bees A BEGINNER'S GUIDE • Beekeeper and founder of Buzz Box Mark Meadows introduces the world of beekeeping for all to enjoy

OUR FRIEND THE WASP • We often see wasps as a bit of a foe but they are actually of great benefit to gardeners, as Becky Searle explains

SUPERFAST STRAWBERRIES • If planted now, strawberries can be cropping in a mere 60 days. Here’s how!

SLUGS and SNAILS and OLD WIVES' TALES • In this extract from his book The Good Slug Guide, author Jo Kirby casts doubt on who the natural predators of slugs and snails really are. Have gardeners been getting it all wrong?

HERB OF THE MONTH Lemon balm • This month we look at the deliciously scented herb Melissa officinalis that you will love to grow

IT'S A PLUM JOB! • Fruit expert David Patch explains how and when to prune plum trees and experiments with growing one as a cordon, which is not traditional practise

PRODUCT REVIEWS TOOL CARRYING • Having small tools at hand and easily accessible is always a plus when it comes to gardening. Here are some products that are useful for keeping the essentials close by

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