Editors Intro

Editor's Intro...

I love autumn in the veg garden. True it is sad that the garden is starting to wind down, but there is still a lot to do so that there remains a real buzz about the place.

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News

RHS Garden Tour at Middlethorpe Hall & Spa

RHS Garden Tour at Middlethorpe Hall & Spa

31 August 2010

Join a harvesting and storing masterclass on Saturday 11 September 2010 and treat yourself to a stay in a luxury hotel.

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Make some room at home for The BIG Donation!

Make some room at home for The BIG Donation!

31 August 2010

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is encouraging people to donate BIG to their local Furniture & Electrical Store this September as part of the nation’s biggest ever stock appeal – The BIG Donation.

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Action packed Countryside Live

Action packed Countryside Live

28 August 2010

Archery and alpacas are two of the new attractions which visitors to the 2010 Countryside Live event can enjoy. In addition, a new competition to find Yorkshire’s most talented show jumper makes its debut* as part of the line up for the region’s popular hands on experience of rural life.

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Competitions

Peat-free perfection

CLOSING DATE: Friday, 8th October 2010

KG compTo grow great plants you need a great compost. Now Rolawn, Britain's leading supplier of top-quality turf and topsoils, have entered the compost market with their own tried and tested growing medium.

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Bigger bulbs for better blooms

CLOSING DATE: Friday, 8th October 2010

KG compDe Jager's new autumn catalogue boasts over 620 spring bulbs, including 64 new varieties and reintroductions. Bigger bulbs perform better, and since 1868, de Jager has supplied only top-size, top-quality bulbs.

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Music to your ears

CLOSING DATE: Friday, 8th October 2010

KG compA multi-purpose solar-powered radio, mobile phone charger, LED flashlight and bottle opener - it's everything the roving allotmenteer needs in one package (except possibly a trowel). Available in vibrant green or orange, Etón's Scorpion is ruggedly built for the great outdoors. Its built-in rechargeable battery can be powered by the hand-crank dynamo, solar panel or DC adaptor.

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Features

Back to basics: Broad beans

Back to basics: Broad beans

2 September 2010

It’s time to sow broad beans – one of our most valuable and easy to grow hardy crops. Joe Maiden takes you through the simple steps you’ll need to follow to grow great crops for harvesting from May to October next year.

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Blogs

Fruit picking on Wimbledon Common by Helen Babbs

30 August 2010

Let’s begin with blackberries. A couple of weekends ago we scootered from north London way out west to Wimbledon Common and picked berries in the hot late afternoon sun. Later we stewed them with some bramley apples and brown sugar into a violent purple broth that was tangy on the tongue and stained lips a faint, inky blue.

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Know your poison by Naomi Slade

Know your poison by Naomi Slade

24 August 2010

With a long-standing interest in plant toxicity and botany in general, and regularly fielding questions about this from friends and acquaintances I was pleased to receive a copy of Elisabeth A Dauncey’s new Poisonous Plants book, published by Kew

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Current Issue: October 2010

Issue October 2010

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• Meet a future generation of allotment gardeners
• Preserve your home-grown produce
• Visit the UK's best vegetable plots both big and small
• 10 free* strawberry plants for every reader
• Win £1600 worth of prizes to give away in this issue
• Save up to £49 with our reader offers
• What do Jamie Oliver, Boris Johnson, Joe swift and Raymond Blanc have in common?

PLUS: Make your own cider... Forage for fruit... Grow a taste of Italy... Chickens... Great veg from raised beds... Your gardening questions answered... Latest news...

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