Kitchen Garden - December 2017

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH

Last year we officially launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would feature in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we feature another of our talented winners

A hall, a walled garden and heritage apples

Martin Fish visits a walled garden in Lancashire to find a gardening team committed to an environmentally friendly approach to growing

WHAT A YEAR!

This month Stephanie Hafferty reflects on a year of hard work and takes satisfaction from what she has been able to achieve in a relatively short space of time

MAKING CHRISTMAS WREATHS

It has long been a tradition to hang wreaths on doors at Christmas and you can also add a few edible highlights which you may have grown on your plot

ROB'S PLOT Christmas cheer!

It might be a bleak midwinter but Rob Smith is on his plot happily getting on with a range of December tasks

FULL OF BEANS!

Keen to cultivate a nitrogen-rich soil, Jacob Shooter sows a large plot of field beans and reaps a plentiful crop too

A glut of fruit? So what next?

It has been a great year for fruit but what can you do with the burgeoning harvest? David Patch offers suggestions

GROWING ORGANIC VEG ALL YEAR ROUND

Dr Anton Rosenfeld, knowledge officer of Garden Organic, explains how you can have tasty veg to harvest every month of the year

TWO'S COMPANY

Finding themselves on adjacent plots and with lots in common, Nathan and Daniel decided to join forces and so nathanielsallotment was born

GARDENING FOR FOOD SECURITY

KG reader and keen kitchen gardener Susan Smith from Cleveland highlights the importance of UK gardens in feeding the nation during difficult times