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6 First pickings
All the latest news, seeds and products for kitchen gardeners

10 Win a polytunnel!
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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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