Kitchen Garden - December 2015
YOU & YOUR PLOT
6 JOBS ON THE VEG PATCH
Winter wash fruit trees, install garden lighting,
plant fruit trees and hedges, harvest winter
vegetables, look for a Christmas gift
10 JOBS IN THE GREENHOUSE
Harvesting hints, sowing and planting guide,
harvest peppers, tend to strawberries
12 HOT TOPICS
The latest news from the world of kitchen
gardening
16 YOUR LETTERS AND TIPS
Learn what other KG readers have been
up to and pick up some great first-hand
advice. Plus enter our fun Spot The
Difference competition
20 QUESTION TIME
Regular Gardeners’ Question Time panellists
Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer
your fruit and veg growing conundrums
94 LAST WORD
This month KG reader Loris Goring explains
how to make changes on our plots to help
keep us gardening as we get older
98 NEXT MONTH
Some highlights to be found in your January
issue plus details of great free gifts
GET GROWING
22 MEET THE WINNERS
We announce who has won the KG Passionate
Plotter Competition 2015
26 ANNE’S TOP 10
In the last of the series Anne raises a smile as
she reveals her top 10 garden sayings
28 BEGINNER’S GUIDE
TO LARGE ONIONS
Get to know your onions with Andrew Tokely,
and maybe even win first prize at your
local show!
34 NEW SEASON, NEW SEEDS
Part one of our look at the very best new seed
varieties on offer for the 2016 season
42 BEE-FRIENDLY KITCHEN GARDEN
Susie Kearley went to explore the wonders of
The Courts formal kitchen garden in Wiltshire
and its colonies of bees
49 GETTING FRUITY IN THE NORTH
Gardening expert John Stoa reveals his
favourite fruits to grow north of the border
54 HARVEST FESTIVAL
Gaby Bartai reports from the Dundee Flower
and Food Festival, where Britain’s top show
growers were celebrating the 2015 season
58 AT A GLANCE – RHUBARB
A KG guide to growing your best-ever sticks
62 SPROUT HEAVEN
Biodynamic gardener Julie Moore explains
how to grow this most nutritious of crops
66 HOW TO MAKE A BIRD FEEDER
KG regular Joyce Russell brings you a
satisfying weekend project that will help keep
your garden birds fed this winter
74 POTATO DE RESISTANCE
Potato grower Laurence Hasson reveals three
new blight resistant spuds for you to try
WHAT TO BUY
70 GROWING GUIDES
Our pick of the best gardening apps, websites
and blogs from the World Wide Web
71 KG BOOKSHELF
Our roundup of some of the best books to buy
for gardeners
78 READER SAVERS
This month claim your free seeds. Also offers
on AGM seed collections, cauliflower seeds,
greenhouse favourites collection, propagators
and plug plant trainers
80 TRIED AND TESTED
The KG team suggest some great Christmas
gifts for gardening friends and family
84 GIVEAWAYS WORTH £1796
This month you could win ladies gardening
clothes, gloves, secateurs, salad crates, stylish
bird houses, breakfast cereals and mugs or
self-heating pet beds
86 GARDEN STORE
News of the best new products and services
to reach the KG offices this month
88 WIN EDIBLE
GARDEN SHOW TICKETS
We are offering the chance to win one of 10
pairs of tickets to the show