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OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH
Last year we launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would feature in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here is the next of our talented winners
Pumpkins galore – one of Kim’s favourite crops to grow
KIM TURNER FROM DOWNHAM MARKET, NORFOLK
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You may well have been harvesting for some months now but October is the time when all those longer term lovelies, including the winter squashes, are ripening
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After training as a botanist and gaining her MSc in Crop Protection, Pippa Greenwood spent 11 years in charge of the RHS Wisley plant pathology department. She is the author of countless best-selling books and is a long-standing voice on BBC 4 Gardeners’ Question Time. Here she talks with Daniel Heighes
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Gardens that are alive with bugs – whether beetles or bees – are healthy, beautiful places to be. They’re also more productive. Benedict Vanheems shares some simple tips to give bugs a boost this autumn and beyond
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Janice Hopper takes on a tour of Cawdor Castle in Inverness and finds its stunning gardens rich in symbolism
PEAS PLEASE ME
Growing peas is a must for Rob Smith. Here’s his introduction to growing them, with top tips and some varieties you might like to try
TURN UP THE HEAT FOR MELONS
Nothing shouts summer like a home-grown melon, yet they can be a challenge to grow in the UK climate. All the more reason to have a go, says KG editor, Steve Ott
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In his book Zero-Waste Gardening Ben Raskin shows how much we can make use of our produce by utilising our growing spaces more effectively and eating more of a plant than we do currently. This is an extract from Chapter Two: Taste
SLUGGING IT OUT
When blogger and new gardener Emily Cupit discovered slugs nibbling her lettuces she decided to try out some organic controls to protect them. Here’s what she discovered
GO, GO, GO OCTOBER!
It might not be the height of the growing season but Stephanie Hafferty is still very busy with garlic, green manures, mulching and making a new compost heap using pallets
YOU’ VE BEEN FRAMED!
The UK growing season is short and anything that helps us make the most of it to grow more delicious crops must be welcome. KG editor Steve Ott explores one simple tried and trusted solution
Flavourful fruit for creative cooks
Much of fruit growing centres around the premise of eating the fruit fresh from the tree, but this month KG’s fruit expert David Patch turns his attention to fantastic flavours for the kitchen
FAMILY FYFE
Milly Fyfe lives on a farm in Northamptonshire with her two sons, Angus and Dougie, and husband Andrew. As well as tending to 100 suckler beef cows, 300 breeding ewes, 350ha of land for arable production plus chickens and pigs, the family also maintain a walled garden where they grow fruit, vegetables and flowers
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Pumpkins are soon ready to harvest and with October 26 being National Pumpkin Day, Annabelle Padwick decided to focus on this autumnal beauty
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