Kitchen Garden - March 2010 PDF
Name Digital Magazine: Kitchen Garden
Year: 2010
Issue: March
Country: UK
Language: English
Format magazine: PDF
Pages: 107 pages
Size: 15.4 Mb
About Kitchen Garden:
Kitchen Garden Magazine is the UK's number 1 magazine for growing your own fruit and veg. First Pickings is our monthly round-up of all the latest news and covers everything you need to know from plot to plate.Kitchen Garden is a British magazine dedicated to gardeners who grow their own vegetables, fruit, and herbs. It contains practical tips on planting, tending, and harvesting, along with product information and recipes.
Content issue Kitchen Garden - March 2010 PDF:
NEWS 6 FIRST PICKINGS All the latest news and views form the world of kitchen gardening YOUR PLOT 10 JOBS FOR MARCH Essential tasks for your plot from the KG team 14 UNDERCOVER Sue Stickland's seasonal tips on growing in polytunnel and greenhouse 16 LET THE SOWING BEGIN Try our top tips to getting good results with sowing outdoors or in pots 22 BACK TO BASICS – TOMATOES Your how-to-grow guide with new expert writer, Joe Maiden 25 101 WAYS TO A SLUG-FREE GARDEN Gaby Bartai has plenty of ideas to control slugs organically 30 YOUR LETTERS AND TIPS 32 VEG PLOT ANSWERS Your fruit and veg questions answered 34 READERS’ EXCHANGE Ask a question or help other readers 35 WEBWATCH Helen Gazeley reviews some great gardening-related websites 36 BACKYARD BOTANY – TOMATOES Botanist, Lucy Halliday, on the benefits of eating tomatoes 38 VEG GROWING ON A BIG SCALE Steve Ott visits a veg farmer in Boston, Lincolnshire, to get some growing tips ALLOTMENT LIFE 42 THE BEGINNER'S VEG PLOT NEW SERIES Former professional gardener Graham Uney takes you through the making of a new fruit and vegetable plot 44 GETTING TO THE ROOT Leading showman Medwyn Williams on growing long carrots and parsnips 46 A PLOTTER'S YEAR – NEW SERIES We follow the growing diary of Andrew Tokely on his Suffolk plot 48 TECHNIQUES ON TRIAL – NEW SERIES Joyce Russell looks at traditional gardening tasks. This month making lazy beds 52 AUTUMN CABBAGES PUT TO THE TEST Results of the cabbage-growing trials at the RHS gardens and the varieties given awards ORGANIC GARDENING 54 GROWA TASTE OFWARMERSHORES Tender fruits are fascinating and easy to grow says Bob Flowerdew 58 DIGGING DEEPER John Walker airs his views on the proposed partnership between a garden retailer and the charity Garden Organic 60 REVISION – OR GRAND VISION? Bob Sherman gives Garden Organic's viewpoint on the collaboration with a garden centre 62 GARDEN ON A BUDGET Andy Hamilton has some tips to make your gardening pound go further. This month finding free advice and growing your own hops 64 VEGAN VEG – PERENNIAL PLANTING TIME Lonnie and Richard Morris increase their more permanent crops 66 BUTTERCRAMBE GOES BACK TO ITS ROOTS Emily Webber visits a market garden in Yorkshire that is being restored 70 BEDS FOR BEGINNERS –NEWSERIES Joyce Russell follows a year in the life of a raised bed from creation through to growing different crops each season. 74 SPEARS OF JOY Asparagus: Follow Steve Ott's guide to planting this delicious long-term crop PLUS OFFER on quality crowns 76 MAKING CUTS FOR BETTER TOMS Tomato specialist, Terry Marshall, explains the benefits of tomato grafting 80 NATURE NOTES – ROOM WITH A VIEW Barbara Thompson of Cumbria Wildlife Trust recommends putting up nest boxes SEASONAL RECIPES 82 COLD COMFORT There are plenty of imaginative ways to cook cauliflower, as Christina Maxfield explains WHAT TO BUY 84 IN THE GARDEN SHED This month, some great product ideas for kitchen gardeners 90 THE SEED POTATO STORY Gaby Bartai visits a seed potato producer in the Scottish Borders READERS SAVERS 88 CLAIM YOUR 5 FREE PACKETS OF HERB SEED (just pay pp) 88 SAVE OVER 55 ON KG OFFERS Check out special offers on onion sets, sweet potato slips, Jerusalem artichokes, apple, plum and pear trees, early spring seed collection 94 GIVEAWAYSWORTH OVER 1099 Your chance to win tickets to Harrogate Spring Flower Show, EcoCharlie Natural Slug and Snail Deterrent, de Jager lily bulbs 96 BIRD WATCHING Professional chicken keeper, Caroline Mills, offers some advice on chicken care OTHER FEATURES 86 SUBSCRIBE TO KITCHEN GARDEN 98 NEXT MONTH What’s in store for your April issue of Kitchen Garden 102 MUCK RAKING Edwin Oxlade has the last say on all things growing
