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Head gardener Lucy Chamberlain manages a walled kitchen garden within a 100-acre estate. Inspired by its success, she has followed the key design principles in her own, much smaller garden, to create a beautiful and highly productive fruit and vegetable plot.
The addition of any fruit or veg to a garden gets a huge tick in my book. My hope is that last month, fuelled by part one of this series, you put pen to paper and drew up a design a for your dream edible plot. Now it's time to take those plans, whether grand or modest and get started on building your kitchen garden. In this issue I'll explain how to start adding all the fundamental areas to your plot, including the all-important growing spaces, and why a greenhouse is an important investment for your plot.
Getting started
There are two options when it comes to clearing your site - blitz it in one hit or tackle it in bite-sized chunks. Usually the first route is associated with a price tag - clearing ground quickly often requires renting machinery, such as a mini-digger or stump grinder. Unless you have a willing army of friends, you may also want to hire in a skilled gardener or two, especially if your plot needs physically demanding work like the removal of tree stumps or perennial weeds. If you're carrying out the task in stages yourself, be sure to cover over or cultivate any cleared areas as you go, to maintain the upper hand with weeds. Also, make sure you know how to dispose of the waste-it's amazing how much material garden clearance can generate.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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We love June
We're cruising towards midsummer: this is a month full of love and abundance. Wherever you look there will be something in your garden that lifts the spirits and makes you glad to be alive. We have colour to cheer us, we have leaves that still have the bounce and freshness of small puppies, we have the first berries fattening up, there are birds frantically parenting very demanding broods of chicks, the bees are all over the place, it's prime barbecue and picnic season, and we have lawns as lush and green as billiard tables. What a month to fall in love.
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Your wildlife month
The female will usually lay one clutch of up to eight eggs
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An edible garden in pots
Join Lucy Bellamy in creating an edible container garden for all seasons, as she harvests what's ripe now and starts later-season crops
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Garden craft with kids
Fill the summer holidays with fun nature makes for kids, including botanical printed t-shirts, seed sowing in upcycled food containers and a hanging home for beneficial insects. Jaime Johnson and family show you how
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Secrets of a COLOURFUL GARDEN
Using a colour theme is an easy way to give any garden a strong, unified character - Nick Bailey shows you how
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Indoor plants, outdoor treats
Break the rules and give your house plants a summer holiday, with Michael Perry's mixed pot display ideas
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YOUR PRUNING MONTH
The first few weeks of summer are a good time to get spring-flowering plants in shape. Follow Frances' guide for best results
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Gardening for wellbeing
As the pressures of modern living bear down, our outside spaces can provide soothing respite for our minds and bodies, says Arit Anderson
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Your greenhouse guide to A fruitful summer
Get the best from your greenhouse fruit and vegetable crops this summer, with these tried and trusted growing tips from Adam Frost
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Stars of the show
Agapanthus is the perfect midsummer plant, flowering with spectacular blooms from June onwards and, as Monty explains, it loves to grow in a pot