Kitchen Garden - July 2022

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PLOTTER OF THE MONTH
We visit the productive family veg plot of Laura Tweedale from East Cheshire.

FROM GRASS TO GORGEOUS VEGGIES
Stephanie Hafferty charts the massive transformation in just a short time on her new plot in West Wales.

MINI VEG FOR SMALL SPACES
KG’s deputy editor Emma Rawlings highlights crops that are ideal for harvesting at their young and tender best..

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH

Last year we officially launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would feature in Kitchen Garden magazine throughout 2022. Here we feature our latest winner

6 mins

EXTENDING THE SEASON WITH LETTUCE

So easy to grow and with so many varieties to choose from, lettuce is a crop you can harvest nearly all year round if you grow successionally. Martin Fish explains

4 mins

FROM GRASS TO gorgeous veggies

It is summer and no-dig gardener Stephanie Hafferty is thrilled by the speed and success of her new plot which only months ago was just a weedy lawn

4 mins

TRIUMPH OVER adversity

Sally Clifford meets a community of growers and showers at one of the country's oldest allotments societies in West Yorkshire

4 mins

ROB'S PLOT SO MUCH TO HARVEST ALREADY!

Rob Smith is starting to enjoy the fruits of his labour with plenty to harvest but at the same time there’s also plenty to sow, and he’s keeping his eye out for pests and diseases

6 mins

THE UPWARDLY mobile munch

Runner beans remain as popular as ever in the veg patch, with many gardeners feeling they are the best flavoured of all beans. KG editor Steve Ott offers his top tips for bumper crops

5 mins

IT'S A KIND OF MAGIC

There's something enchanting about growing veg, says Emma Bailey, and even more so when you involve your children

4 mins

Watering wisely

Water is a valuable resource even in our climate and we can use various techniques in the garden to preserve it, explains Dr Anton Rosenfeld, knowledge officer of Garden Organic

4 mins

FROM LITTLE SEEDS GREAT THINGS GROW

Mark Alexander is a home/allotment gardener with a focus on growing food for his young family. Mark grew up learning about organic farming from his family and from this seed of knowledge grew a passion for growing his own and also seed saving

5 mins

MINI VEG FOR small spaces

If you don't have a lot of room to grow vegetables but want a flavour of home-grown then here are a few crop suggestions and ideas from KG deputy editor Emma Rawlings

4 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.