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Welcome

If you love growing your own food, you’ll surely love the autumn.

TOP JOBS FOR OCTOBER

ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS BY BEN VANHEEMS

UNDER COVER

CLEAR OLD CROPS

WHAT’S NEW

ALL THE LATEST NEWS, PRODUCTS & FACTS FROM THE WORLD OF KITCHEN GARDENING

HAVE YOUR SAY

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QUESTION TIME

GOT A FRUIT OR VEG PROBLEM? ASK KG FOR HELP

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH

Last year we launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would appear in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Meet a Yorkshire couple who maximise their space to great effect

WANT TO BE OUR KG PLOTTER OF THE MONTH?

We are inviting all readers to enter our latest competition to find the 12 plotters who will feature on the pages of Kitchen Garden next year. All you need to do to enter and win some great prizes is fill in a questionnaire and send in some pictures of you and your plot.

NEXT MONTH

IN YOUR NOVEMBER ISSUE OF KITCHEN GARDEN MAGAZINE

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DIGGING THE DIRT

KG reader and keen allotmenteer John Holloway takes a wry look at allotment life in this bi-monthly series

ON THE PLOT WITH THE 3 Mudketeers

The KG team offer chat, tips and gardening gossip

GROW WITH BELLE

PINE CONE BIRD FEEDERS

PEPPERS UNCOVERED

More expert advice from Martin Fish this month plus a tasty green chilli salad recipe from cookery expert, Jill Fish

STORING GALORE

It’s wonderful to preserve your produce and enjoy eating it in the winter months. It also saves you money. Stephanie Hafferty offers some ingenious ways to prepare and store produce

GIVE YOUR SOIL AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER

Garden Organic’s research manager Anton Rosenfeld suggests a greener way to manage soil over winter.

GROW YOUR OWN PICKLING PANTRY

GREAT FOR BEGINNERS

KG’S TOP 5 BROAD BEANS

One of the delights of late spring and summer, broad beans are a must-grow crop, says Tony Flanagan. Pick them at the right level of maturity and they are just delicious!

FLOWERS WITH PURPOSE

It has always been popular to grow some flowers on allotments or veg plots either as crop flowers or as attractants for pollinators. Emma Rawlings takes a look at just a few examples

A PLOT OF ONE’S OWN

This month writer and stylist Ellie Tennant shows us around her Oxfordshire allotment

HOW PLANTS COPE WITH WINTER

Becky Searle looks at how different plants have adapted to winter and what survival mechanisms they have developed

THE WINTER HARVEST

GREAT FOR BEGINNERS

THE CREATURE FEATURE KNOW YOUR SHIELD BUGS

There are certain kinds of bug that you see from time to time and you may be wondering what they are and what they do. Nature watcher Jack Edmonds sheds light on the shield bug

LIVING THE GOOD LIFE WITH URBAN HENS

Living in a town or city? That should be no barrier to keeping chickens, says experienced chicken keeper Sara Ward in this extract from her book Living the Good Life in the City: A Journey to Self-Sufficiency

THE FORAGING ADVENTURE

Hannah Reid takes stock of the abundant harvest that nature generously provides each year for free

HAZELNUTS SEASON BY SEASON

Great to forage but if you want to grow your own hazelnuts, David Patch offers this simple-to-follow guide

WIN A TWO-NIGHT BREAK IN STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

Nothing speaks of active living and making the most

PRODUCT REVIEW GARDENING GLOVES

Keep your hands warm and protected this autumn and winter as you tackle those various tasks in the garden

GIVEAWAYS

TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAYS SEE PAGE 87 OR VISIT THE KG WEBSITE

KG OCTOBER GIVEAWAYS

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AUTUMN BAKES

You can have your cake and eat it too! And for something savoury there’s celeriac and winter squash, courtesy of our regular chef Anna Cairns Pettigrew