Kitchen Garden Magazine

Inside this month

• 30 PAGES FOR ORGANIC GARDENERS

• Gardening on a budget

• Over £1160 in giveaways

• James Wong - naturally cures your ills naturally

• Grow kohl rabi and radish

• REDCURRANTS - grow your own

• READ ONLINE: Our growing guides

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Kitchen Garden Offers

All our great monthly KG offers are now ONLINE!
Highlights this month:

Easy grow salad leaves
Enjoy the taste of fresh and tasty salad leaves through the summer
Just pay £1.89 p&p

Super express salad leaves
Fast growing varieties that will brighten the look and taste of autumn and winter salads
20 plants just £9.95

Latest news

Helen's Blog - updated 21 June

My year of edible, aerial gardening:  June 2009

It’s the longest weekend of the year, it’s getting late but it’s still just about light.  I’m not long back from a rather bloody (but wonderful) RSC production of Julius Caesar and have been finding watering the plants very soothing, as a dusk duvet wraps itself around the roof
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News from Malvern

Ann Somerset Miles, who wrote regularly for ‘Organic Garden & Home’ for ten years, reports on the magic of Malvern, and on a couple of new products that will be of interest to ‘Kitchen Garden’ readers...
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FEATURE: A taste of Italy

Shrewsbury may not be Sorrento but that doesn't stop Luigi Valducci growing some delicious Mediterranean varieties on his plot
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Kitchen Garden Newsletter

The June edition of the Kitchen Garden newsletter is out now and you can read it free online. In it we bring you all the latest news from the world of kitchen gardening and keep you up to date with the great features and offers to be found in the magazine and here on the Kitchen Garden website.

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KG-TV - Video clips

NEW VIDEO SERIES
Kitchen Garden editor Steve Ott, and deputy editor, Emma Rawlings offer a series of short demonstrations and tips from their own raised bed plot in Grantham.

• Episode 6: Lifting Leeks [View episode]

• Episode 5: Lifting Leeks [View episode]

• Episode 4: Sowing Carrots [View episode]

• Episode 3: Sowing Peas [View episode]

• Episode 2: Sowing sweetcorn [View episode]

• Episode 1: Prep. seed beds [View episode]

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Jobs for August

If nature follows the script August should be a month of harvesting and watering as crops languish in the summer sun. Let’s hope so! In the meantime there are lots of other jobs to get on with too, including sowing winter crops and summer pruning trained fruit. Sue Hoy brings you a roundup of the top jobs for the month
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Digitally design your dream garden

Whether you are looking to design a garden from scratch or simply want to take a fresh approach to your existing garden, the Wacom Bamboo Fun will let you visualise how it will look without getting your hands dirty.

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Roll out the barrel!

Launched in 2008 to supply restored whisky and bourbon barrels as water butts, The Barrel Company are now rolling out some lovely additions to their range.

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Showtime in Yorkshire

Enjoy an end-of-season day out at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, which takes place at the Great Yorkshire Showground. An independent show, it has the enviable reputation of being ‘the friendly show’...

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Dog Rocks

Many fruit and vegetable gardeners also love their lawns and many more are also keen dog owners. For them the constant nuisance of burnt patches from dog urine, can be a real pain.

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Garden the eazi way

Eazitools is a company with a mission: to reduce the stresses and strains that we gardeners endure. We have three sets of eazitools, each worth £150, to give away.

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No more ants

The popular range of nematode pest controls from Nemasys has now added ants to its hit list. We have 25 packs of No Ants to give away.

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Avoid kitchen sink dramas

There’s nothing quite like vegetables fresh from the garden – but they tend to come indoors complete with soil, outer leaves and the odd slug or two, all of which end up in the kitchen sink.

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Extend your garden – upwards!

Take your gardening to a new level! A green roof can brighten up an overlooked garage, extension or shed roof.

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An original take on seeds

Why not grow something different in your kitchen garden this year – perhaps from Italy, Spain, France or Germany?

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Cutting edge for hedges

The ECHO DHC-30 is the world’s first battery-operated commercial-grade hedgetrimmer. Ideal for both domestic and professional use.

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Reader Savers - only on the KGShop

Every month Kitchen Garden magazine features many special deals for our readers.
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