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Heaps of Colour

Hydrangeas offer great structure, huge blooms and late-season colour in semi-shade. Hazel Sillver explains how to grow them and looks at 16 of the best types

Feeding time

Val looks at plants that provide food for caterpillars

Just desserts

Look after your rhubarb and you'll be rewarded with lots of luscious stalks for plenty of summer puds, says Toby

A tale of two tomatoes

Ruth shows how to resurrect leggy seedlings

Quick-growing annuals to sow now

There is still time in late spring to sow quick-growing hardy and half-hardy annuals straight to the soil, says Anne Swithinbank, as she describes the best ones to grow

Keeping it sweet

Bob explains why now is the best time to sow sweetcorn

Create a wildlife patch

Give a little space to nature’s heroes, says Ruth

Autumn daisies

Sneezeweeds are tough perennials, and now is the time to plant them to attract wildlife and fill borders with warm, fiery colour in late summer and autumn, says Hazel Sillver

Say hello to hostas

After disappointments, Ruth gives hostas another chance

Bring me sunshine!

Sow the taste of citrus with cosmos ‘Polidor’, says Ruth

Growing citrus plants

Whether you grow luscious lemons or ornate oranges, Steve and Val Bradley explain how to keep your potted citrus plants in tip-top condition throughout the year

Sparring partners

Val looks at the pros and cons of gardening partnerships

Start thinking about cuttings

Propagation is so easy and satisfying, says Ruth

This week... lilacs

With their beautiful scented flowers, lilacs are an easy-to-grow garden classic

STRAWBERRY GROWING IN POTS AND TROUGHS

Fruit-growing expert David Patch offers some top advice on growing strawberries in containers

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH

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

LEARNING AS THEY GROW

Gardening can give so much to children. Wellbeing expert Annabelle Padwick offers advice to those thinking of setting up a school garden or allotment

PATCHES OF HEAVEN

Garden designer, author and TV presenter Joe Swift talks to On the Grapevine podcast presenter Daniel Heighes about all things gardening, including his new set of guidebooks

EXTENDING THE SEASON WITH CARROTS

Fresh and crunchy, pulled straight from the soil or compost, carrots can be a culinary delight for much of the year, says Fresh and crunchy, pulled straight from the soil or compost, carrots can be a culinary delight for much of the year, says Martin Fish

BRING ON THE garden super troopers

Avoid pesticides by attracting natural helpers to your garden, says Dr Anton Rosenfeld, knowledge officer of Garden Organic

BLOOMS FOR CUTTING, COOKING AND CRITTERS

All flowers have a place in our hearts and on our plots but some have particular merit, as Emma Rawlings explains

ROB'S PLOT All systems GO!

June is a busy month for Rob Smith. Still some planting to do, plenty of watering, checking for pests and harvesting a range of crops

It's a cover-up

Covering bare soil with a material such as cardboard or manure between crop plants is called mulching and it has many benefits, as Joyce Russell explains

A HIDDEN GEM

Kathryn Clover is swept off her feet as she visits Green Broom co-operative farm in Berkshire and finds plenty to write home about

Luscious lilies

Beautiful and hardy, lilies are flowers of mystery and legend. Camilla Phelps explains how you're spoilt for choice when it comes to finding the right lily for your garden

AG's peat-free compost test: Part 3

Overall growth is more even and plants are bushing out after a patchy start

It's a kind of magic

Bob reveals a few plant ‘tricks' to impress children

Focus on... Summer lettuce

Lettuces are the foundation of summer salads — and, with careful sowing, spring, autumn and winter salads, too! Lucy explains how to boost your salad self-sufficiency

The garden's dark star

'Velvet Queen' is a statuesque beauty

The colour purple

If you love purple, plant it now for decadent, bold borders, says Hazel Sillver, as she explains the best combinations when using this stunning colour in your borders