August 2013

YOU & YOUR PLOT

JOBS THIS MONTH:

6 ON THE VEG PATCH
It’s time to lift onions, summer prune apples
and harvest plums

9 CONTAINER CROPS ✪
Plant a herb hanging basket

10 IN THE GREENHOUSE
Plan holiday watering, sow winter crops, gather
the harvest

12 HOT TOPICS ✪
The latest news and comments from the world
of kitchen gardening

16 BIRMINGHAM BLOSSOMS
Highlights from Gardeners’ World Live 2013
held at the NEC

20 YOUR LETTERS AND TIPS
Learn what other KG readers have been up to
and pick up some great first hand advice

22 BACK TO BASICS ✪

GET GROWING
Grow one of our most colourful crops with top
tips from Andrew Tokely

26 ON MY PATCH
We visit more keen KG plotters. Plus send us
your pictures and win prizes

28 WHERE STREETS ARE PAVED WITH SWEETCORN
We visit Todmorden in Lancashire where
community gardens have gone to town

34 QUESTION TIME
Regular Gardeners’ Question Time panellist
Bob Flowerdew answers your fruit and veg
growing conundrums

38 TRIED AND TASTED ✪
Joe Maiden looks at six varieties of parsley and
has some advice for growing a great garnish

41 USING YOUR FREE SEEDS ✪
Our guide to getting the best from your free
cabbage and lettuce seeds this month

42 RAINBOW OF HERBS AND FLOWERS
Gardening expert Debbie Cooke encourages us
all to be experimental with colour on our plots

47 HIDDEN HARVESTS ✪
Sue Stickland offers her advice on finding
harvests in some surprising places

52 RAISING THE GAME ✪
Steve Ott with the second in his series on
growing in raised beds. This month, planting.

57 PIPPA’S PROBLEM SOLVER
Pippa Greenwood tackles the common
problem of blossom end rot on tomatoes

58 VEGETABLE TROUBLESHOOTER
Plant pest expert Lucy Halliday explains how to
deal with problems on chard ✪

61 LOVE THE GREAT OUTDOORS ✪
Toby Buckland has a great recipe for success
with outdoor dining

66 FROM POTAGER TO PLATE
Gardening writer Caroline Mills visits Barnsley
House in Gloucestershire, former home of
gardening guru Rosemary Varey

74 HOW TO STRING GARLIC AND ONIONS ✪
A classic way to store your winter bulbs made
easy with advice from Joyce Russell

77 CHiLTERN CHARMS
We travel to the Chilterns to see a beautiful
productive garden and to chat to head
gardener Kevin Watkins

80 EXPERT’S CHOICE
This month KG editor Steve Ott reveals his top
five veg for flavour

82 FRUIT AT A GLANCE ✪
This month we turn the spotlight on plums

96 DIARY DATES
Plus full details of seed and young plant
suppliers that appear in the magazine

106 LAST WORD
More comments from KG readers. This month
Claire Norris of Downham Market, Norfolk

WHAT TO BUY

81 WIN A SET OF TOOLS
Be one of four lucky readers to win a set of
Fiskars top quality gardening tools worth £120

84 GARDEN STORE ✪
News of the best new products and services
reach the KG offices this month

86 GROWING GUIDES
Helen Gazeley and the KG team review the
very best gardening websites and books

88 PRODUCT ROUNDUP… THERMOMETERS
Joyce Russell looks at six thermometers
claiming to help you keep tabs on the
temperature, but which comes out top for
quality and value?

92 GiVEAWAYS WORTH OVER £1854 ✪
This month we have gardening courses,
holiday watering kits, hosepipes, decorative
water butts and pea supports to give to our
lucky winners

94 READER SAVERS ✪
A free goji berry plant worth £9.95, plus save
up to £22 on cabbage and cauliflower plants,
storage sacks, strawberries and onion sets

102 NEXT MONTH
What’s in store for your new look September
issue plus details of your next gift of free seeds