Kitchen Garden Magazine - April 2024

In this issue

A NEW KITCHEN GARDEN
Follow KG regulars Martin and Jill Fish as they build a productive plot in their new Lincolnshire garden.

BEDS ON A BUDGET
Gardening expert Ben Vanheems explains how to keep the costs down when making raised beds.

SEED SOWING SPECIAL
KG’s Emma Rawlings answers some common questions on sowing and there’s a pull-out seed sowing chart for your shed wall..

TOP JOBS FOR APRIL

ESSENTIAL TASKS FOR YOUR VEG PATCH AND PROTECTED CROPS

6 mins

QUESTION TIME

GOT A FRUIT OR VEG PROBLEM? ASK KG FOR HELP

4 mins

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

3 mins

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

4 mins

A BEAN FOR EVERY GARDEN

You'll be amazed at just how many varieties of French beans there are, both old and new. Rob Smith takes us on a tour of some of his favourites

5 mins

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

5 mins

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

5 mins

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

3 mins

Kitchen +Garden TOP PICKS

It's time to get growing and you'll need the very best products for sure-fire success this spring. Check out this selection of must-have products from some of our trusted partners, which should be on your shopping list this month

3 mins

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

3 mins

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

5 mins

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

2 mins

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

5 mins

THE CREATURE FEATURE Beauty and the thief

We all know how valuable bees are on the plot - without their pollinating power, our harvests would be pretty pathetic. This month, Jack Edmonds takes a look at some common April plot visitors, the mining bees, and the parasitic nomad bees out to spoil their fun...

3 mins

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...

2 mins

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

7 mins

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Kitchen Garden Magazine Description:

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.The KG team put their heads together to bring you their top 101 tips to help you get your season off to the best possible start and as cheaply as possible. We hope you’ll agree that they are genuinely useful. If you have any of your own you’d like to share, please drop me a line and we’ll feature them in the magazine.