Kitchen Garden - September 2016
YOU YOUR PLOT
6 ON THE VEG PATCH
Harvest sweetcorn, beans and courgettes, plant
spring cabbages and strawberries, harvest and
store onions, summer prune apples.
10 IN THE GREENHOUSE
Plant onion sets, harvest aubergines, sow pak
choi, combat powdery mildew
12 HOT TOPICS
The latest news, comment and advice from the
world of kitchen gardening
14 YOUR LETTERS & TIPS
Learn what other KG readers have been up to
and pick up some great first-hand advice
18 QUESTION TIME
Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer
your fruit and veg growing conundrums
48 ENTER OUR PASSIONATE
PLOTTER COMPETITION 2016
Why not enter our best plot and container
competition and win some great prizes?
52 YOUR FREE SEEDS
Get the best from your free gifts
97 NEXT MONTH
Some highlights to be found in your October
issue plus details of great free gifts
106 LAST WORD
Former superintendent of the Royal Parks
turned TV gardening celebrity, Jim Buttress,
GET GROWING
20 ON THE PLOT WITH THE
THREE MUDKETEERS
Learn what the KG team have been up to this
month and pick up some great top tips
24 SERVING THE COMMUNITY
Visit a very special walled garden in Ripon
which aims to make life better for the less
fortunate in the local area
30 BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO CAULIFLOWERS
A KG pocket guide to growing this sometimes
unappreciated, yet highly colourful cabbage
family member
34 MAKE IT! NEW
Our new series highlighting cost-saving DIY
projects to make your gardening easier
36 GET GOING WITH BLUEBERRIES
Broadcaster and author Anne Swithinbank
offers her top tips on growing this delicious
soft fruit
40 RADISH ‘CRUNCHY MIX’ ON TEST
Steve Ott reviews a colourful new radish mixture
42 ENJOY THE HARVEST
Gardening expert and author Naomi Slade
explains how to pick and care for your ripening
tree fruit
54 DISEASES DON’T HAVE TO BE DEADLY
Plant pest and disease expert Pippa
Greenwood profiles some important plant
diseases and explains how they can be beaten
58 FRUIT AT A GLANCE
KG’s Steve Ott reveals some of his favourite
apple varieties for your patio and garden
63 APPLE CIDER VINEGAR
– THE NATURAL ALL-ROUNDER
Biodynamic gardener Julie Moore extols the
many virtues of apple cider vinegar and offers
her recipe for DIY success
68 GLUT BUSTERS
Gardening expert Ben Vanheems offers ways
to ensure that you never waste another berry
or bean from your hard-earned harvest
74 FLOWERS AMONG THE FENNEL
For deputy editor Emma Rawlings allotment
growing doesn’t just mean fruit and veg. Here
she looks at some popular flowers to add
colour and life to your plot
80 MAKE A COMFREY PRESS
Ever wondered what is the easiest way to
make your own rich liquid feed? Joyce Russell
shows you how
WHAT TO BUY
84 TRIED AND TESTED
This month the KG team put a range of
popular loppers through their paces in time
for the pruning season
88 GARDEN STORE
News of the best new products and services
to reach the KG offices this month
90 READER SAVERS
Claim your free blackberry ‘Reuben’ plant
worth £12.95 plus save on winter lettuce
and spring cabbage plants, jostaberries and
blueberries
92 KG INSTANT SAVERS
Save on a range of great gardening
products with our exclusive deals
including high-rise planters, Haxnicks
gardening products, orders from Pippa
Greenwood.com and state-of-the-art food
dehydrators
94 GIVEAWAYS WORTH OVER £2348
This month you could win power tools for your
autumn clean up, robotic vacuum cleaners,
micro-drip irrigation kits and tickets to the
London Homebuilding and Renovating Show
102 DIARY DATES
Great things to see and do this month
give us his views on veg gardening today