Kitchen Garden - February 2024

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YOUR LETTERS AND TIPS
KG readers share their experiences and offer their top tips for better crops.

KG PLOTTER OF THE MONTH COMPETITION
Meet Sarah Sanderson, the latest of our talented winners, and tour her lovely Cheshire plot.

CAULIFLOWERS UNCOVERED
This month top grower Martin Fish reveals the secrets of growing this challenging crop.

CAULIFLOWERS UNCOVERED

More expert advice from Martin Fish on one of the more difficult veg to grow, while Jill serves up a delicious cauliflower and mustard soup

3 mins

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH

Last year we launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would appear in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Meet another of our creative and talented winners

4 mins

THE VEG THAT KEEPS ON VEGGING

This month Becky Searle sings the praises of perennial vegetables and encourages you to find a space for them on your plot

5 mins

CARROT GOLD

Rooted in tradition, bursting with flavour and with so many varieties to choose from, carrots are a must-grow veg in Rob Smith's garden

5 mins

GROWN TO A FINE ART

Fibre artist Emma Davies tells Sally Clifford how growing her own inspires her creations

5 mins

LIVING THE DREAM!

A summer temp job at a garden centre was the starting point for Steph Young's journey to veg growing enthusiast and avid Instagrammer

7 mins

HERITAGE APPLES A growing legacy

Kirsty Williams visits the heritage fruit tree nursery of Tom Adams and finds a fascinating range of once-forgotten apple varieties now available for the home gardener

4 mins

HANDLE WITH CARE

Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shares his secrets for success with transplanting seedlings

3 mins

LET'S GET SORTED!

This month Jane Kelly considers the range of resources you can call on when planning your garden and recording what you do in it

5 mins

Ladybird, ladybird...

If there's something green, sucking leaves and wood, who you gonna call? Well aside from lacewing larvae, parasitic wasps, rove beetles and predatory midges, you might want to call a ladybird. And ask it to bring some friends, says nature watcher

6 mins

FLAVOURSOME FRUIT GOOSEBERRIES

Gooseberries may have fallen out of favour but certainly not out of flavour, as fruit expert David Patch explains

6 mins

DIGGING THE DIRT POO BARE

There's something quite malodorous in the air down on John Holloway's allotment site... but maybe that's a good thing

2 mins

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Kitchen Garden Magazine Description:

Kitchen Garden Magazine - UK's No.1 for growing your own fruit and vegetables. KG also offers great monthly give-aways, special gardening offers, recipes, growing tips and much more.The KG team put their heads together to bring you their top 101 tips to help you get your season off to the best possible start and as cheaply as possible. We hope you’ll agree that they are genuinely useful. If you have any of your own you’d like to share, please drop me a line and we’ll feature them in the magazine.