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Grow your own: Sweetcorn

Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
There is nothing more delightful on a warm summer’s evening than eating barbecued home-grown sweetcorn; the juices and melted butter dribbling down your chin. It’s simple to grow your own and a great one to involve children in. You’ll have the kids eating vegetables in no time! Sweetcorn is a type of maize and it produces its cobs of yellow…
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Grow your own: Tomatoes

Fruit & Veg Growing Guides
With so many varieties and the versatility to grow in greenhouses, outside, or even in hanging baskets, when you grow your own tomatoes, there’s a world of possibilities. There are hundreds of tomato varieties ranging from the tiny cherry tomatoes to the huge beefsteak types and all sizes in between. Tomatoes are great value for money because most home-grown fruit…
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How to avoid a plant-astrophe!

Features
A plague on all our plants? Hopefully not, says David Patch, who offers some sound advice on how to keep our precious fruit crops free of pests and diseases. Over the past years, we’ve all had a crash course in virology, understanding more than we ever did (or perhaps ever wanted to) about how infectious diseases can be transmitted. We’ve…
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Podcast 122: Lettuce Talk

Podcast
Lettuce is one the easiest and quickest veg to grow, says Rob Smith. So this month he looks at the range of varieties you can try. (Read by Rachel Atkins, Written by Rob Smith). Listen to the Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast now by searching for us on your favourite podcast app, pressing play on the podcast player in this article…
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Podcast 121: Get to Grips with Grapes

Podcast
This month we tackle a fruit with an undeserved reputation for being tricky. Indoors, outdoors, grow them in a pot; this month David Patch maps out the options for growing grapes in the UK. (Read by Rachel Atkins). Listen to the Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast now by searching for us on your favourite podcast app, using the following links or…
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Podcast 120: Veg for Value

Podcast
With household budgets under strain at the moment, the Kitchen Garden editorial team takes a look at the veg you can grow to save money at the supermarkets! Listen to the Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast now by searching for us on your favourite podcast app, using the following links or by simply pressing play on the podcast player below! Spotify:…
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KITCHEN GARDEN MAGAZINE SCOOPS COVETED MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR ACCOLADE

News, Video
Kitchen Garden magazine, the UK’s best-selling monthly magazine for growing your own fruit and veg, has been named Magazine of the Year in the Specialist Interest category by a prestigious national awards organisation. The Newspaper and Magazine Awards (NMA) held a virtual awards ceremony, due to current Covid restrictions, where Kitchen Garden successfully fended off stiff competition from a number…
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