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Kitchen Garden Magazine - UK's No.1 for growing your own fruit and vegetables. KG also offers great monthly give-aways, special gardening offers, recipes, growing tips and much more.

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TOP JOBS FOR FEBRUARY • STEPHANIE HAFFERTY RUNS THROUGH THE ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS

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ON THE PLOT WITH THE 3 Mudketeers

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QUESTION TIME • GOT A FRUIT OR VEG PROBLEM? ASK KG FOR HELP

OUR TOP PLOTTERS • Last summer we launched a competition to find our Top Plotters, with the top three winning some great prizes and the chance to be featured in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we meet our second-placed pair

Know your ABCs PART TWO! • In the second of this two-part series Tony Flanagan reveals more of the new varieties you will find in the 2025 seed catalogues

GOODBYE PEAT, HELLO PEAT-FREE • Peat has been a part of the gardening world for many years but now times have changed. Martin Fish explains how to get the most out of your peat-free compost

BEYOND THE PLOT… CHILLIES & SWEET PEPPERS • So what to do with all those amazing peppers you have been growing? Why not preserve them, says Rob Smith, and enjoy their goodness all year round?

SOW EASY • Are you ready for spring? It all starts with those seeds and the more we can do to improve germination rates, the better our chances for a bumper season. Benedict Vanheems offers some advice to help you up your sowing success

DIGGING FOR DEVON! • Rhiannon Alcock thought gardening was definitely not for her. So who could have foreseen that one day she would go on to found a thriving community project growing food for food banks?

THE BIG (OR LITTLE) PARSNIP GROW-ALONG • Back in December we included a free packet of parsnip seeds with every issue and invited readers to join us in growing the longest root. Here are some top tips to get you started

MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR COMPOST • Dr Anton Rosenfeld from Garden Organic shares some great ideas for ways to use your composted waste effectively

CREATING A POTAGER GARDEN • Creating vegetable beds in patterns with dividing pathways can be an attractive and practical way to grow. Emma Rawlings offers some tips on making a potager

WHAT HEDGING CAN I USE?

HERB OF THE MONTH SAGE ADVICE • Sage has been an important culinary and medicinal herb for centuries but it also comes in a range of leaf colours that makes it a real treat for the eyes (and nose) in borders and pots

OUR FAVOURITE VARIETIES

LOVIN' THE LETTUCE • You can't beat home-grown lettuce for its crunchy freshness says KG deputy editor Emma Rawlings. Here she offers some growing advice for this salad favourite

A TASTE OF SOUTH ASIA • In this extract from her new book Desified, food creator and social media star Zaynah Din offers three delicious ‘desi’-themed recipes using her own homegrown produce

HOW TO GROW… TREE SPINACH • This is a more unusual edible to try on your plot this year – and it adds a splash of pink at the same time

A FOOD FOR ALL SEASONS • This month Becky Searle takes a looks at how the crops we grow relate to our bodies’ nutritional needs, season by season

MODERN TOMATO BREEDING: BATTLING BLIGHT! • This month Rob Smith tracks a number of tomato breeding projects in North Yorkshire that are having great success in developing blight-resistant crops

A wildlife pond is born • Jane Kelly finally got round to making her own pond in the hope that it would attract a variety of wildlife....