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Welcome

TOP JOBS FOR FEBRUARY • ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS BY STEPHANIE HAFFERTY

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ON THE PLOT WITH THE 3 Mudketeers • The KG team offer chat, tips and gardening gossip

GROW WITH BELLE MAKE A BUG BOX! • Hi! I'm Belle and I'm here every month to share lots of fun activities for you to do at home, on your own or with your family

WHAT'S NEW? • ALL THE LATEST NEWS, PRODUCTS & FACTS FROM THE WORLD OF KITCHEN GARDENING

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

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

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

MAGNIFICENT MULCHES! • It's a wise gardener who lavishes soil with organic matter. Benedict Vanheems offers an insight into which mulches are best and some tactics for deploying them.

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

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

GROWN TO A FINE ART • Fibre artist Emma Davies tells Sally Clifford how growing her own inspires her creations

You've made your hotbed, NOW GROW IN IT! • Huw Richards shares his experience of creating hotbeds, an ancient method perfect for today's gardener

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

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

HANDLE WITH CARE • Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shares his secrets for success with transplanting seedlings

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

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 Jack Edmonds

SHOOTING STARS • Seed sprouts are the ultimate in easy growing, plus they are some of the most nutritious crops around. Steve Ott offers his top tips for year-round success

FLAVOUR SOME FRUIT GOOSEBERRIES • Gooseberries may have fallen out of favour but certainly not out of flavour, as fruit expert David Patch explains

HOW TO PRUNE: STEP BY STEP

PRODUCT REVIEWS SOIL TESTING • The quality of our soil is a great determiner of the quality of our crops – so why not give your soil the once-over with one of these handy testing products?

GIVE AWAYS • TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAYS SEE PAGE 89 OR VISIT THE KG WEBSITE

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