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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.

Welcome

TOP JOBS FOR OCTOBER • ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS BY BEN VANHEEMS

UNDER COVER

ON THE PLOT WITH THE 3 Mudketeers

GROW WITH BELLE

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QUESTION TIME • GOT A FRUIT OR VEG PROBLEM? ASK KG FOR HELP

PEPPERS UNCOVERED • More expert advice from Martin Fish this month plus a tasty green chilli salad recipe from cookery expert, Jill Fish

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 a Yorkshire couple who maximise their space to great effect

WANT TO BE OUR KG PLOTTER OF THE MONTH? • We are inviting all readers to enter our latest competition to find the 12 plotters who will feature on the pages of Kitchen Garden next year. All you need to do to enter and win some great prizes is fill in a questionnaire and send in some pictures of you and your plot.

PLUS • All readers who are picked to be our Plotter of the Month 2024 will each receive a great bundle of prizes

THE QUESTIONNAIRE 2024

STORING GALORE • It's wonderful to preserve your produce and enjoy eating it in the winter months. It also saves you money. Stephanie Hafferty offers some ingenious ways to prepare and store produce

GIVE YOUR SOIL AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER • Garden Organic's research manager Anton Rosenfeld suggests a greener way to manage soil over winter

GROW YOUR OWN PICKLING PANTRY • Get pickling to maximise your harvest, says Rob Smith. Here's a selection of fruit and veg you could try

KG'S TOP 5 BROAD BEANS • One of the delights of late spring and summer, broad beans are a must-grow crop, says Tony Flanagan. Pick them at the right level of maturity and they are just delicious!

FLOWERS WITH PURPOSE • It has always been popular to grow some flowers on allotments or veg plots either as crop flowers or as attractants for pollinators. Emma Rawlings takes a look at just a few examples

A PLOT OF ONE'S OWN • This month writer and stylist Ellie Tennant shows us around her Oxfordshire allotment

HOW PLANTS COPE WITH WINTER • Becky Searle looks at how different plants have adapted to winter and what survival mechanisms they have developed

THE WINTER HARVEST • Award-winning journalist Kim Stoddart explains how to carry on growing delicious edibles over even the coldest, darkest months of the year

TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL WINDOWSILL EDIBLES

FURTHER INDOOR EDIBLES OPPORTUNITIES

THE CREATURE FEATURE KNOW YOUR SHIELD BUGS • There are certain kinds of bug that you see from time to time and you may be wondering what they are and what they do. Nature watcher Jack Edmonds sheds light on the shield bug

SHIELD BUGS YOU MIGHT SPOT

OTHER BUGS TO LOOK OUT FOR

LIVING THE GOOD LIFE WITH URBAN HENS • Living in a town or city? That should be no barrier to keeping chickens, says experienced chicken keeper Sara Ward in this extract from her book Living the Good Life in the City: A Journey to Self-Sufficiency

URBAN HENS – KEEPING CHICKENS IN LONDON

THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF KEEPING CHICKENS

THE FORAGING ADVENTURE • Hannah Reid takes stock of the abundant harvest that nature generously provides each year for free

HAZELNUTS SEASON BY SEASON • Great to forage but if you want to grow your own hazelnuts,...