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We may still be a long way from making those spring sowings, but I still get excited about the start of a new year. There are soil preparations to be made, seed lists to sort and seed potatoes to buy. To help celebrate the new season we have a great new feature for you this month.

Gardening writer Graham Strong is well respected for his great knowledge of growing your own. In this issue he starts a new 12-part series on beginning a new plot from scratch, starting with the inevitable weed clearance to picking your first harvests. I just know you are going to enjoy following his progress.

We also have some top advice on kick-starting your new potato crop, beating tomato blight and getting the most from your free chilli pepper seeds. Love apple pies? Then you’ll want to read our expert’s tips on selecting a cooking apple variety for your garden (p26).

Finally, turn to page 36 – where you’ll discover the winners of our Passionate Plotter and Wonky Veg competitions!

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CONTENTS

EXPERT ADVICE TO HELP YOU GROW GREAT FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

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40 YOU

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6 ON THE VEG PATCH ✪

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This month Joyce Russell takes over our jobs on the plot feature. Joyce is busy tending to leeks, preparing bean trenches, sorting seeds and lifting celeriac

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KG regular Martin Fish moves into the greenhouse and polytunnel from this issue and is having a winter clean up, preparing the soil for spring crops and pruning grapes

12 WHAT’S NEW?

The latest news, comment and advice from the world of kitchen gardening

14 YOUR LETTERS AND TIPS

Learn what other KG readers have been up to and pick up some great first-hand advice

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20 KG PROBLEM SOLVER

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This month our experts solve readers’ problems with standard and sweet potatoes, plums and crab apples

66 86 NEXT MONTH

Some of the highlights to be found in your February 2019 issue plus news of great free gifts

98 LAST WORD

KG reader Tim Britton describes his journey into the world of champion leek growing

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Some more great homegrown meals from your seasonal veg cooked up by our resident chef Anna Cairns Pettigrew

GET GROWING 16 ON THE PLOT WITH THE THREE MUDKETEERS

Our intrepid trio are planting broad beans, resprouting veg and cooking up a one-pot meal.

Pg 92 48 FEED YOUR SOIL ✪

KG editor Steve Ott takes a looks at ways to boost your soil for the season ahead

52 FAST FORWARD YOUR SPUDS! ✪

16 CHRISTMAS QUIZ ANSWERS

Veg expert Ben Vanheems looks at simple ways to get your earliest potato harvest ever

18 CUT FLOWERS ON THE PLOT

57 SLUGGING IT OUT

This month easy-growing nigella

22 GROWING ONLINE

Our pick of gardening social media and websites

26 THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE COOKING APPLE ✪

No other country in the world grows apples purely for cooking. Fruit expert David Patch explores the long history of UK ‘cookers’

31 THE CULTIVATED PLOT ✪

Sally Cunningham looks at non-chemical ways of reducing your slug and snail problems

61 BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO AN OLD GARDEN

Gardening writer Wendy Pillar visits the beautiful walled kitchen garden of West Dean in Sussex

65 FOLLOW THAT STAR

Sally Cunningham takes a look at Spiked Star of Bethlehem, an asparagus alternative

88 WHAT TO BUY

66 MEET THE BLOGGERS

74 GREAT READER OFFERS – SAVE OVER £18! ✪

We reveal the winners of our hotly contested 2018 competition to find Britain’s keenest veg growers plus results of the wonky veg and art competitions

69 CELEBRATING A NEW YEAR! ✪

80 NEW GARDEN STORE

40 FIRE UP YOUR PROPAGATOR!

76 HOW TO… AVOID TOMATO BLIGHT ✪

82 GREAT GIVEAWAYS WORTH OVER £704

83 RAISING YOUR GAME ✪

88 TRIED AND TESTED – GARDENING SCISSORS

In the first part of his new series, Graham Strong gets his new plot into shape for spring sowings

36 PASSIONATE PLOTTER ✪

KG editor Steve Ott brings you his growing guide to chilli peppers

43 BRINGING THE JOY TO VEG GROWING ✪

Wendy Pillar travels to Ireland to meet one of her all-time heroes, veg gardening legend, Joy Larkcom www.kitchengarden.co.uk

This month we meet Hayley Moisley, a young blogger with a bright future in the world of allotment gardening

KG chef Anna Cairns Pettigrew has some delicious and colourful recipes for home-made party dips

Allotment guru Rob Smith looks at ways to avoid the perennial problem of tomato blight

Joyce Russell has an innovative idea to help you pack more trays of seedlings into your garden or plot this spring

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TASKS FOR YOUR VEGETABLE PATCH IN JANUARY BY JOYCE RUSSELL Photos by Ben Russell

GET THE BEST OUT OF LEEKS STEP 1: Even hardy leeks can suffer in a cold winter. Some plants start to soften and others bolt. If left to their own devices, plants develop a hard core and a large flower head. Get the best out of leeks by nipping out any flower spikes as soon as you spot them.

Remove any plants that have started to rot.

STEP 2: Use a fork to ease plants out of the ground. You don’t have to get all of the roots but it is best to get a good clump on each plant.

Dig a shallow trench and put the lifted leeks into it. Plants can go close together (leave a gap of 5cm/2in) as they won’t grow from here on.

Fill the trench in so roots are buried in damp soil.

STEP 3: Plants can be pulled out of the trench as needed. Roots will take up enough moisture to keep plants firm.

Plants will store in this way for several weeks. Slice up the middle of the leeks, lengthwise, and wash before using to remove any bits of soil – garden leeks always seem to have more flavour than shop-bought ones.

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SORT SEEDS Check old packets of seed before setting out to buy more. Check dates on open packets and check if there are enough seeds in them for your needs. Seed deteriorates once the pack

is open, but most seeds do okay for a second year.

Exceptions are carrots, parsnips, peas and beans, where I would buy new seed each year – these seeds are slow to germinate and you lose precious time if they fail. Most

brassicas germinate well for several years after opening and salad leaves are sown thickly so you can get three years of crops even if a few don’t germinate. Keep good packets and replace ones that are past their best.

REMOVE SNOW

Shake snow off cloches and covers if there is a heavy fall, or if snow is forecast to lie for more than a day. Plants suffer if light levels are reduced for too long and stems may break under the heavy weight.

FEED ONIONS AND GARLIC

Use a high-potash feed on autumn-planted onions and garlic. This sustains strong growth in the coming weeks. Wood ash is a good option, although this is quite alkaline so best used on acid soils. Seaweed-based fertilisers provide the nutrient boost that these crops need.

SOW NOW

Early peas and broad beans, lettuce, salad leaves, perpetual spinach – under cloches in mild areas or with added heat.

PLANT NOW

Broad bean and pea plants under cloches outdoors. Fruit bushes and trees if ground isn’t frozen.

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Brussels sprouts, leeks, kale, winter and spring cabbage, celeriac, cauliflower, Swiss chard, winter lettuce, salad leaves, swedes. www.kitchengarden.co.uk

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HARVESTING HINTS

There are plenty of January crops and there’s something special about a home-grown winter feast. The secret to keeping the harvest going is to know how and when to pick. Some plants, like cauliflowers and sprouts, are fairly obvious – harvest when they are full-grown and at their best. But leafy crops like salad greens, kale, spinach and chard can drop large leaves in cold weather and they only make good growth in the spring if smaller leaves are left to grow to feed the plant. Pick a few leaves from each plant, even with lettuce, and don’t strip any plant.

Rows may look scruffy, but they crop for longer.

Check all supports and ties on tall plants. Canes can break in a gale and string made from natural fibres will rot after a few months’ exposure to rain. Knock in new posts if needed and replace worn ties. Late winter gales can soon flatten precious plants.

ATTEND TO TOOLS

Make a list of which tools need attention and what supplies will be useful in the year to come. It’s a good idea to fix mowers and to sharpen shears etc. before they are needed. There’s time before everything kicks into action but it is always good to be prepared.

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START A DIARY LIFT AND EAT CELERIAC

These plants are surprisingly hardy, but they do deteriorate if left in the ground too long.

‘Roots’ develop hollow areas and brown streaks that make them less easy to use.

This doesn’t have to be anything fancy but you do need a new notebook each year. Write in all that you do in the garden and when you do it. List what varieties you grow and how well they perform, along with a note on weather conditions. You may think you will remember from one year to the next, but a diary is an instant reminder if you forget.

WASH POTS This is the time of year when you regret putting all those unwashed pots in the shed.

Choose a fine day, sit in the sun and wash them all at one go. Use a brush to get in corners and give a good scrub so disease isn’t carried forward into new-season plants. Spray with water to wash off any suds and leave the clean pots to dry in any sun.

SEED POTATOES Early varieties start to appear in garden shops around the middle of January.

Buy when you see them and look after them yourself, rather than leaving them to produce long white shoots in bags on a display stand. Choose seed potatoes that are about the size of an egg if you can. If they are much smaller then there may not be enough nutrients in the potato to get shoots and roots off to a good start. If they are much bigger then you may need to cut seed potatoes in half – exposing the flesh to disease spores – in order to get enough seed to plant from each bag.

Stand the potatoes in boxes with the sprouting end (eye end) up. Egg boxes work well to keep them in position. Put in a light, cool, frost-free place and leave to ‘chit’ until short, green shoots grow.

CLEAR AND TIDY

Get outdoors on any fine day and get all in order for the busy months to come. Sweep paths, trim edges and repair any structural flaws.

REMEMBER CHARD

Rainbow chard brings a flash of colour to the winter garden. Harvest stems to use as needed and remember to order seed if you want to grow this easy and tasty crop next winter.

CLOCHES FOR PEAS AND BEANS Prepare trenches and put cloches on top now so you can sow seeds underneath in a week or two. Coverings warm the soil underneath and they can stay in place until you are ready to sow and grow.

CHECK FENCES AND GATES

Look carefully around the perimeter fence.

Mend gaps and holes if you can. Tracks in snow may reveal which animals visit your garden – try to keep the unwanted ones out. Oil and mend gates too so they don’t drag, squeak or sag on hinges.

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FEED FRUIT TREES It may seem early to think about feeding fruit trees when they are still dormant and a good few weeks off bursting out leaves. The thing to bear in mind is that most feeds take a few weeks to get into the ground in a usable form that roots can take up and some feeds take several months to get to that point. So if you want a good nutrient supply for your fruit, right through the months of setting and swelling and ripening ready for harvest, then now is the time to get some feed on the ground.

Scatter concentrated organic feeds thinly and always follow instructions on the packet as to amount. As a

rule of thumb, fruit tree roots extend the same distance around the tree as the branches do above. You can also use manure, seaweed or a compost mulch to get nutrients down to the roots. Few gardeners spread this out as far as the branches on a mature tree, so opt for a combination technique – put mulch in a onemetre circle around the base, then scatter organic fertiliser in an arc beyond that. If rain isn’t forecast, water well to make sure the goodness washes down to soil level.

Keep dogs away too – they are attracted to ingredients like fish, blood and bone and will lick up half of what you apply. www.kitchengarden.co.uk

■ Clear out the last of any winter crops that have now finished, chop them up and add to the compost heap.

■ Prune back tall shrubs and overhanging branches on trees that cast shadows on the greenhouse.

■ Check perennial herbs in pots and if the compost is starting to dry out, give them a little water.

■ Make sure you’ve got your seed order in if you buy from a mail order company, to get the varieties you want.

■ Check garlic cloves that were started into growth in pots last autumn and keep them just moist.

■ Tidy pots and seed trays and dispose of any that are broken or no longer used.

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A NEW GREENHOUSE: PREPARATION

January is one of the least productive months in the greenhouse and polytunnel when it comes to harvesting crops, but it’s a time when there is lots of preparation to do ready for the new growing season.

Making sure the glass in the greenhouse or polythene on the polytunnel is clean is something that needs doing before the main growing season. A bucket of warm, soapy water and a car-washing brush is ideal to scrub off dirt and algae which will instantly allow more light to new crops in spring. While you’ve got the bucket of warm water, it’s also a good idea to give the propagator a good wash down to remove dirt and fungal spores to help seedlings get off to a healthy start. www.kitchengarden.co.uk

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PREPARE THE SOIL Making sure your border soil is in good condition is vital to get good crops year after year. Regardless of whether the soil is clay or sandy, the addition of organic matter will greatly improve the soil structure and help to create a healthy, fertile soil that drains well, but at the same time retains moisture and nutrients. This can be in the form of home-made garden compost, well-rotted manure, spent mushroom compost or bagged soil conditioner.

Having cleared the beds, I like to spread several inches of compost on the beds and fork it in, but if you use the no-dig method, leave it on the surface. If this is done annually, your soil will get better and better each year.

HARVEST POTATOES IN POTS

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New potatoes can be harvested in December and January, from late seed potatoes that were planted in containers back in August. These will have made strong growth in late summer and early autumn, but when the weather turned cold in November, the foliage would have died down. By trimming down the yellow stems and allowing the compost to almost dry out, the small tubers will keep in good conditions in the compost, as long as the pots are not allowed to freeze. In a greenhouse or polytunnel they are usually fine, especially if covered over with some fleece for protection. You then simply knock out the contents and harvest ‘new’ potatoes as you need them through the winter.

Grape vines are great for growing under cover where they benefit from the added warmth and longer growing season, which helps ripen the grapes in late summer and early autumn. Vines are vigorous and to keep them trained and under control they need regular pruning in the growing season and again now, while they are dormant.

Winter pruning basically consists of cutting back last year’s growth to a couple of buds to the main framework of permanent branches. It needs doing by the end of January before the sap starts to rise in the vine, otherwise the wounds will bleed sap.

Any loose, flaky bark on thick stems can also be scraped off as it provides a hiding place for insect pests.

■ It’s surprising how hardy many salad leaves are and very often they will carry on producing leaves all through the winter months. Growing a mixed selection in trays or shallow bowls gives you the flexibility of being able to move them around to the warmest spot in the greenhouse and you can also better control the moisture around their roots.

■ Make sure you are ready for sowing seeds next month by buying some new multipurpose compost. Keep the bags dry and a couple of weeks before sowing take the bag into the greenhouse to allow the compost to gradually warm up.

■ To get ahead on pest control, make sure you have a good tidy up to remove any old foliage or debris that might be providing winter hiding places for insects, and use a brush to clean out any nooks and crannies in the greenhouse frame.

■ January and February are often the coldest months, so keep some garden fleece handy to drape over plants when the temperatures are sub-zero.

■ If you haven’t already got one, buy a maximumminimum thermometer to hang in your greenhouse or polytunnel so that you can monitor the highest and lowest temperatures over a 24-hour period.

POT STRAWBERRY PLANTS For an early crop of strawberries in May and June, now is the time to bring some plants undercover to start them into growth. Strawberries need a period of cold weather outside to break their winter dormancy, but when brought undercover in mid to late January, they soon start to wake up and make new growth. Last year’s runners can be lifted from the garden, or new plants in www.kitchengarden.co.uk

small pots can be potted into larger containers or hanging baskets using good quality compost. Keep the compost moist and stand the pots on a bench in a light position.

Even without any artificial heat, the plants will flower and produce delicious fruit a few weeks earlier than plants growing in the garden.

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ALL THE LATEST NEWS, PRODUCTS & FACTS FROM THE WORLD OF KITCHEN GARDENING

For more on slugs & snails see p57

A scientific study by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has found that some of the traditional remedies thought to deter slugs and snails are totally ineffective. Lettuce that was protected with copper tape, horticultural grit, pine bark mulch, wool pellets and egg shells incurred the same damage as lettuce where there was no deterrent in place at all.

One hundred and eight lettuces were sown in a series of pots and raised beds at the charity’s John MacLeod Field Research Facility in Wisley and treated with alternate control methods, including no control at all. The lettuces were grown for six weeks before being harvested and the leaves of each lettuce examined using a leaf area meter that calculated the proportional damage. Lettuces planted in the ground were found to be more susceptible to slugs, with 5.7% of each eaten on average. This compares to just 0.2%

According to a recent survey of 1492 UK adults, 53% judge their garden based on their neighbour’s.

The survey conducted by garden furniture company Alfresia.co.uk found that 71% of British residents would make improvements to keep up with their neighbour’s garden updates.

Garden dining sets are the most copied outdoor updates, with 69% stating that this is one of the key areas of inspiration they take from those living close by. This was followed by plants and flowers, at 55%, and one in 10 have even resorted to making an excuse to visit their neighbour in order to get a better view of their outdoor space.

Those living in Oxford are the most likely to get garden envy (75%), followed by those living in Newcastle (68%).

of those in pots, which, despite this advantage, still yielded less crop.

The ready availability of lettuces at ground level is thought to have helped minimise damage to pots.

Dr Hayley Jones, entomologist at the Royal Horticultural Society, said: “Our study reveals that many gardeners could be wasting time and money by turning to home remedies in a bid to protect their prized plants.”

For more information about garden slugs and snails as well as other pests and diseases, visit www.rhs.org.uk

IT’S JUST OUTREDGEOUS! How about sowing a lettuce that was first grown on the NASA space station and was eaten by the astronauts?

‘OutREDgeous’ is a red romaine variety which has a sweet flavour and a crunchy texture, suitable for picking as a baby leaf or a mature plant. Seeds available from www.suttons.co.uk

Tickets are available for this year’s RHS Flower Shows in London (April 8-10), Cardiff (April 12-14), Malvern Spring Festival (May 9-12), Chelsea (May 21-25), Chatsworth (June 5-9), Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival (July 1-7) and Tatton Park (July 17-21).

For further information about all of the 2019 RHS Flower Shows, and for full details of how to buy tickets, visit www.rhs.org.uk/ shows or call 0844 995 9664.

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RECORD-BREAKING PUMPKIN ON SHOW

Twin brothers Ian and Stuart Paton from Pennington in Hampshire are prolific record breakers when it comes to pumpkins, having previously broken UK and European records.

Their 174 stone (1105kg) pumpkin broke their previous UK record of 162 stone (1028.7kg), set in 2017.

The brothers tended to their pumpkins for four hours per day and used 100 gallons of water; at peak times the pumpkins increased in weight by 60lb (27.2kg) per day.

But this still leaves them short of the current world record which stands at 187 stone (1190.49kg) set by Belgian grower Mathias Willemijns in 2016.

Pea variety ‘Champion of England’ was grown by Charles Darwin in the mid-1800s and was even mentioned in his book The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. Now this variety has been saved from extinction by horticultural charity Garden Organic in association with Dobies seed company and is available to buy.

The variety fell out of fashion in the 1970s when mechanised harvesting took over. As a result this taller-growing type of pea began to disappear from seed catalogues. Fortunately, Garden Organics’ Heritage Seed Library saved this variety from disappearing forever in 1975.

‘Champion of England’ produces tall, productive plants with well-filled pods of seven to 10 peas and crops very well.

To purchase seeds visit: www.dobies.co.uk.

ORGANIC FOOD & REDUCED CANCER RISK A recent study carried out by Paris University concluded that a diet high in organic food was associated with a significantly reduced risk of cancer. The diet of nearly 70,000 adults was monitored over a period of seven years (2009-16). Reduced risks were specifically observed for post-menopausal breast cancer and all lymphomas.

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BRISTOL POTATO DAY & SEED FAIR JANUARY 13.

Windmill Hill City Farm, Philip Street, Bedminster, Bristol.

Potatoes, seeds, onion sets, fruit trees and bushes, cafe; 10am-1pm. Beans & Herbs and Pennard Plants www. windmillhillcityfarm.org.uk

GRAFTING FRUIT TREES JANUARY 12, FEBRUARY 9.

Brogdale Farm, Faversham, Kent. Grafting to produce maiden trees, change or add varieties to mature trees; 10am-1pm. Book on 01795 536250 www. brogdalecollections.org

RUSLAND POTATO DAY JANUARY 20. Greenodd Village Hall, near Ulverston, Cumbria. About 90 potato varieties, veg seeds, fruit; 10am-3pm. 07884 430732 www.brighterblooms.co.uk

For a full list of shows, festivals, events and courses this month please visit our website www. kitchengarden.co.uk and choose the Diary Dates category.

PLEASE NOTE We have made every effort to ensure these details were correct at the time of going to press, but recommend you check with the organisers before travelling.

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ALLOTMENT SOLACE

Since July 2016 I have been on long term sick from work and have found solace in my allotment. Being short of money to buy Christmas presents, I delighted my friends and family by turning my allotment produce into jams, preserves, pickles and chutneys. I then made them into Christmas hampers using pretty baskets garnered from local charity shops. Eat your heart out Fortnum & Masons! They were so popular that it will be a yearly tradition from now on!

Linda Whinney, Norwich TONY SAYS; And what lovely presents they are too, Linda. Just shows what can be done on a small budget.

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Who said growing tomatoes was tricky?

Every year I carefully tend my toms, feeding them homemade nettle broth, gathering seaweed on my trips to the coast for an extra treat, pinching out, staking, rotating them towards the sun and assisting with pollination using a tiny brush. But look at this beauty growing in a crack against the wall. I spotted it early in the summer and left it as an experiment. No feeding, pinching or staking – there must be 4lb of toms on there!

Talk about feeling redundant!

Liz Burnett, Leeds TONY SAYS: How dare it! These plants must learn to obey!

Send us your tips and pictures and if your letter is published you will get a £10 Dobies voucher. If you are lucky enough to have yours chosen as our Star Letter you will get a £25 voucher. Your voucher will be sent out with a Dobies catalogue and you can choose to spend your winnings on a fabulous range of seeds,

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I thought you might be interested to see the bean support that my daughter made for me following the instructions in your magazine. She is studying engineering at university and is presently on a placement in industry so has a lot of free time on her hands in the evenings and at weekends. She also made me a planter with my allotment number written on it, a small willow fence and a storage bench for plant pots, designed by her too.

Valerie Surguy, Middlesex

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