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Visit the top allotment site in Britain

■ Great advice to help your allotment thrive

■ Join the quince revival

■ New seeds for 2009

■ Make the most of mushrooms

■ The garlic lover's guide - top tips for sure-fire success

■ Save over £37 with our great offers

■ Use nature to control your pests

■ Delicious recipes

■ 35 essential tasks for November

■ Is home-grown really cheaper?

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Jobs for November

Jobs for the month
It can seem as if winter is well and truly on its way in November, yet the occasional sunny day, just crisp enough to keep you comfortably warm as you work, can be a real joy. There is still plenty to do in tending to overwintering crops and the fruit garden is a busy place, too, this month

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Latest news

Steve Ott, EditorWhen it comes to the crunch, veg is tops
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As I write this in mid-September, the papers are full of doom and gloom with predictions that up to 500,000 people could be about to lose their jobs in the UK. Let’s hope the pundits have got it wrong, but at least those of us who have already bought-in to the advantages of growing our own produce at home or on the allotment, can feel the benefit to our pockets as the downturn bites. Not that I’ve always agreed that growing our own is cheaper.
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Editor's blog - Updated 5th September

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In the KG pantry

In the KG pantry

NEW SERIES

Ever wondered what to do with your surplus produce? KG's resident cook, Roxanne Warrick, suggests ways of storing your bumper harvests

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Giveaways & Competitions

The perfect garden companion

Never feel lonely in the garden again with this Touch DAB/FM Hand Held Digital Radio. Not a fiddly knob or dial in sight...

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The gift of gardening

If you are looking for the perfect gift to give green-fingered grandparents for Grandparent’s Day in October, look no further than the great range of gardening videos from Dancing Bee.

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Care for your skin

Two great new products have been launched by skincare experts Periproducts, which can help gardeners to both clean and protect their hands.

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Try Something new - fifteen £20 vouchers to giveaway..

Suffolk-based seed and young plant specialists, Thompson & Morgan can always be relied upon to come up with some tempting new veg varieties every year and as you will have seen in our round up starting on page 74, this year is no exception...
We have 15 £20 vouchers to give away and these can be spent on any seeds featured in the 2009 catalogue

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Shield your plants - easy to fit roller blinds

A perennial problem in the greenhouse both during the spring with new seedlings and summer with mature crops is how to shade them effectively. Now a new West Country-based company called Saburo Products has come up with a simple and elegant solution – easy-to-fit roller blinds.

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Go for oak - A large Single Tier Oak Water feature...

Following the success and popularity of the recycled and restored oak barrels to water butts, The Oak Barrel Company has introduced some decorative oak garden products to its range. All recycled and restored by its team of craftsmen and carpenters in Shropshire, The Oak Barrel Company is able to deliver direct to customers all over the UK. We have one large Single Tier Oak Water feature retailing at approx £300 including delivery

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