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June 2008 contents
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2008
Issue 128 -May | Buy back issue
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2007
Issue 123 -December | Buy
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Fruit OTM | Jobs | Undercover | Nuts!
Issue 122 -November | Buy back issue
Fruit OTM | Jobs | Undercover | Under wraps
Issue 121 -October | Buy back issue
Fruit OTM | Jobs | Undercover | Eggplants
Issue 120 -September | Buy back issue
Fruit OTM | Jobs | Undercover | Cloved in magic
Issue 119 -August | Buy back issue
Fruit OTM | Jobs | Undercover | Preserving II

News
6 First pickings
All the latest news, seeds and products for kitchen gardeners
10 Win a polytunnel!
Enter our competition
Your plot
12 Jobs for June
Our guide to the essential tasks to do on your plot in early summer including fruit special
20 Grow some mini onions
Andrew Tokely's guide to growing salad and pickling onions
26 Leafy but not lettuce
Sue Stickland looks at some alternative salad crops to grow
30 Your letters
32 Veg plot answers
Here is the place to get all your fruit and veg questions answered
34 Readers' exchange
Ask help from other readers or offer your solutions
40 KG Allotment competition
Get your entries in and be in the running to win some great prizes
44 Head gardener's trade secrets
This month Tina Hammond from Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk
46 The story of onions
Our monthly guide to the heritage of our most popular vegetables
47 KG Quiz
48 Themed veg plots – hang up your fruit and veg
Creating specialist kitchen gardens – this month growing fruit and veg in hanging baskets
54 The taste of summer
Jim Arbury, the RHS fruit expert gives his tips on growing strawberries
60 Keep your fruit trees healthy
Tips on keeping tree fruit pests and diseases at bay
64 Fruit for small spaces
Head gardener of Normanby Hall, Sue Hoy, suggests some tips on training fruit trees for small gardens
68 Stake your claim on woody stems
Toby Buckland on putting prunings to good use
72 Anything goes
Pam Deschamps offers her experiences of creating a potager
Reader's garden
36 Caribbean crops in the heart of Slough
Allison Wragg meets two plotholders who have their roots in the West Indies
Organic gardening
78 Grow your own string and just about everything else
Bob Flowerdew can make use of anything in his garden even blanketweed!
82 Caring for your crops
Bob Sherman of Garden Organic explains why he doesn't need pesticides to keep his crops healthy
84 Keeping whitefly at bay naturally!
Julian Ives looks at biological controls for this troublesome pest
Allotments
76 Catch the judge's eye
Medwyn looks at growing a more unusual show bench veg – kohl rabi
What to buy
87 KG Bookshelf
Review of the latest kitchen garden books
90 In the garden shed
Products to make kitchen gardening easier
Reader savers
93 Giveaways worth over £1000
94 Save over £54 on special KG offers
94 Free strawberry runners (just pay p&p)
Seasonal recipes
96 Summer strawberry special
Roxanne Warrick suggests two delicious strawberry recipes
Wildlife / Birds & bees
98 The future of gardening
Helen Babbs of London Wildlife Trust looks at the decline in our gardens and other green spaces
102 Feeding your peckish hens
Our expert poultry keeper, Laurence Beeken advises on feeding chickens
104 Keep your bees healthy
Gerard Baker looks at keeping the dreaded varroa mite in check
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101 Muck raking
Edwin Oxlade has the last say on all things growing
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