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EASY DOES IT!
As the growing season gathers pace there's one thing often in short supply: time! Ever feel like you're chasing your tail? Benedict Vanheems offers some tips to save valuable time and effort
A NEW Kitchen garden!
It's time for sowing and planting in the new garden and while Martin is busy with that, Jill is making a tasty asparagus soup
OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH
Kitchen Garden readers rose to the challenge when we asked for pictures of their plots to appear in the magazine this year. It's time to meet another of our talented competition winners
Meet the apple doctor
KG editor Steve Ott chats to Glyn Smith, head gardener for the National Trust's Erddig estate in Wrexham, about his career and love of the garden he has tended for 38 years
TRY AMARANTH! The dual-purpose veg
Garden Organic's research manager Anton Rosenfeld extols the virtues of amaranth and how to grow it
HITTING THE SWEET SPOT
Welcome to the wonderful world of sweetcorn as Rob Smith takes a look at both old and newer varieties, with some growing advice too
DIGGING THE DIRT PARSNIP WARS
All's fair in love and war, as John Holloway recounts the friendly rivalry he shares with fellow allotmenteer Joe
FLAVOURSOME FRUIT GROWING IN CONTAINERS
Want to grow fruit in pots on your patio or in your backyard? Top tips and advice this month from fruit expert David Patch
ASPARAGUS TIPS
Asparagus can be expensive to buy in the shops, but given a little space and time, it’s easy to grow this gourmet treat in your own back garden. Here’s how...
Paying it forward
We meet Ross Pearson, a gardening writer and horticultural lecturer from Northumberland, who was inspired and helped by his grandfather and now passes on his experience to the next generation of gardeners
HARD TO BEET
Tony Flanagan offers a whistle-stop guide to growing this much-loved root and picks out some varieties you might like to try
FLOWERS TO feast on!
In this extract taken from A Floral Feast: A Guide to Growing and Cooking with Edible Flowers, Foliage, Herbs and Seeds, Carolyn Dunster focuses on three beautiful and popular annuals
HUW'S HEROES!
This month Huw Richards explains a method of organising your choice of crop varieties - with reliable stalwarts on the one side and those offering something more demanding on the other
MIND THE GAP
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shows you how to plug the 'hungry gap' in spring and have ready supplies of home-grown food all year round
MAKE YOUR OWN TOPSOIL
Becky Searle explains the complex nature of soil, its principal constituents and how it is structured. She also shows how easy it is to create your own
BEDS ON A BUDGET
Setting up and filling raised beds doesn't come cheap. But there are ways of keeping the cost relatively low, as Benedict Vanheems demonstrates
OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH
Kitchen Garden readers really rose to the challenge when we asked for pictures of their plots to appear in the magazine this year. It’s time to meet another of our 12 creative and talented Plotter of the Month winners
A NEW Kitchen garden!
Having made a start on clearing the ground, Martin Fish now sets about creating the raised beds and placing his compost bin in the right spot. Meanwhile, Jill serves up something sweet and deliciously tangy
QUESTION TIME
GOT A FRUIT OR VEG PROBLEM? ASK KG FOR HELP
TOP JOBS FOR APRIL
ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS
One in a million
For many species, including wasps, lacewings and small birds, aphids are the bread and butter of survival; nutritious, defenceless and plentiful. Jack Edmonds takes a closer look at their amazing lifecycle
A tuber full of potential!
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shares his advice for growing this unusual root vegetable, which can be eaten like a potato
PEAT
This month Becky Searle explains why peat and its preservation are so important and offers advice on peat-free composts
POLYECO
THE ULTIMATE GROWING SPACE
TOMATOES
From garden classics to modern marvels, Rob Smith surveys the wonderful world of one of summer's most popular crops
OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH
Our annual competition to find 12 readers and their plots to appear in Kitchen Garden magazine had a great response. Meet another of this year's creative and talented winners
Kitchen garden!
This month Martin Fish begins a new series documenting the development of a kitchen garden at Ivy Cottage in Lincolnshire, his and Jill's new home. Plus another tasty recipe from Jill
THE VEG THAT KEEPS ON VEGGING
This month Becky Searle sings the praises of perennial vegetables and encourages you to find a space for them on your plot
LIVING THE DREAM!
A summer temp job at a garden centre was the starting point for Steph Young's journey to veg growing enthusiast and avid Instagrammer
HANDLE WITH CARE
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shares his secrets for success with transplanting seedlings