Kitchen Garden - November 2013
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YOU & YOUR PLOT - JOBS THIS MONTH:
6 ON THE VEG PATCH
This month plant fruit, rhubarb and garlic, continue winter digging, have a winter clean-up
10 IN THE GREENHOUSE
Maintain greenhouses, clean polytunnels, plant herbs, make late harvests, sow gap-fillers
12 HOT TOPICS
The latest news and comment from the world of kitchen gardening
20 YOUR LETTERS AND TIPS
Learn what other KG readers have been up to and pick up some great first-hand advice
22 HARROGATE AUTUMN FLOWER SHOW REPORT
Hot from the Yorkshire show the KG team reports on fruit and veg growing highlights
32 ON MY PATCH
We visit more keen KG plotters. Plus send us your pictures and win great prizes from Garden-mall.co.uk
34 QUESTION TIME
Regular Gardeners’ Question Time panellist Bob Flowerdew answers your fruit and veg growing conundrums
96 DIARY DATES
Plus full details of seed and young plant suppliers
102 NEXT MONTH
What’s in store for your December issue plus details of your next gift of free seeds
106 LAST WORD
This month gardening entrepreneur Craig Sams explains how

GET GROWING
15 BAcK TO BASIcS… GARLIc
Garlic growing made simple with Andrew Tokely
26 ITALIAN PASSION FOR VEG
Steve Ott visits the model vegetable garden at Royal Horticultural Society Wisley Gardens and meets the expert grower behind its care
38 TRIED AND TASTED?
Joe Maiden grows some of the many bush tomatoes available to discover how they compare for taste and yield
42 USING YOUR FREE SEEDS
Our guide to getting the best from your free leek ‘Porbello’ seeds
46 A FRUIT GARDEN ON YOUR PATIO 
KG’s Emma Rawlings brings you her guide to growing trugfuls of fruit in a small space
51 FRUIT FOR THE FUTURE
Gardening writer Gaby Bartai travels to Invergowrie in Scotland where new fruit varieties have been bred since the 1950s
58 VEG AT A GLANcE
This month we take a seasonal look at growing and storing squashes
60 PLAN YOUR PLOT WITH PIPPA ?
Gardening broadcaster and keen veg gardener Pippa Greenwood takes you through the essentials of planning your plot
64 VEG TROUBLESHOOTER
This month plant pathologist Lucy Halliday explains how to keep your garlic crop healthy and productive
66 LAND OF JAM AND HONEY
Gardening writer Naomi Slade travels to the historic garden of Greys Court in Oxfordshire
73 KEEPING YOUR SOIL HEALTHY ?
In her four-page guide, gardening expert Joyce Russell brings you her six essentials for great soil (and great crops)
77 cOOKING UP GREAT cOMPOST
Want to know the secrets of making great compost every time? Read Emma Rawlings’ four-page special feature which includes some great tips for a successful ‘brew’?

WHAT TO BUY £
50 SAVE 15% ON PATIO FRUIT
84 GARDEN STORE
News of the best new products and services reach the KG offices this month
86 GROWING GUIDES
Helen Gazeley reviews the very best gardening websites
87 KG’s 10 BEST TOOLS 
Before you buy that Christmas present read Joyce Russell’s pick of the 10 best tools to make veg growing easier
91 WIN A WILDLIFE KIT
We join forces with wildlife charity the RSPB to offer four lucky readers the chance to win over £100 worth of wildlife friendly gardening gifts including bird feed and nesting boxes
92 GIVEAWAYS WORTH £1626?
Including new products from GreanBase, storage boxes, electronic labellers and new season seeds from Thompson & Morgan
94 READER SAVERS – save £32! 
A free blackcurrant AND redcurrant bush, together worth £13.90, for every reader (just pay p&p), plus save on soft and tree fruit collections, casseille and rhubarb crowns.