Organic Gardening Magazine

Features

Sow in summer (Read online!)
If you thought it was time to put your feet up, think again... Helen Penrose has a host of ideas for July sowing that will keep you in crops through autumn, winter and beyond.

Getting comfrey
The books assume that every organic gardener has liquid comfrey on tap. That may be a counsel of perfection – but if you know you could be doing more with comfrey, you’re missing out, says Joyce Russell.

The organic problem solver
“We need to let people know that there’s no problem for which there is a chemical cure for which there isn’t an organic one.” Bob Flowerdew shares his manifesto for an organic future.

Have greenhouse, will travel
A new greenhouse can be pricey... and moving a second-hand one takes skill and steady nerves. A reconditioned poly-greenhouse, however, is well within anyone’s reach. Dave Bevan shows us how.

Watch out – there’s blight about
If only we knew when blight was coming, we could be better prepared. We can, says Helen Gazeley; the new Blightwatch service aims to put gardeners ahead of the game.

Heaven scent
Forget the chintzy image of pot pourri, says Ann Somerset Miles; take a modern approach to aromatics using exotica from your garden and greenhouse.

Daisy, daisy...
Look beyond the obvious, says Jenny Steel – hawkweeds, dandelions, Scotch thistle, sneezewort and yarrow are all daisies – and you will delight the bees and butterflies by growing them.

Intensive care
Container gardening is sold hard by the gardening industry, but that very fact should give us pause for thought. Has this resource-hungry way of growing had its day? John Walker investigates.

So who was Henry Doubleday?
Garden Organic changed its name because the old one – The Henry Doubleday Research Association – failed to ring any bells. Gaby Bartai goes in search of the man behind the name.

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Regulars

12 Spinach on a page
Christina Maxfield tells you all you
need to know – on just one page!

26 This month in your garden
Helen Penrose checks off jobs coming up in July.

July cut down to size
What to prune this month, with Paul Hending.

Gardener in the kitchen
Seasonal recipes from Anna Corbett.

Organic news
John Greenway and Kate Chancellor report.

Tom Petherick’s garden diary
This is the month of biennial crops – and they put Tom in mind of a time when the gardening year had a certain order to it.

The permaculture plot
Strategies to reduce watering aren’t thinking big enough, says Paul Jennings. Plan on not watering at
all, and see where that takes you.

Book reviews
The pick of the new titles.

Plot line
Mark Patterson catches up on a little light reading.

Resources
What’s new in the organic marketplace?

Out & about
Upcoming events for gardeners.

Gardening bug
Organics for a new generation, with Gaby Bartai.

Down the garden path
Mat Coward has the last word.

Next month
A look ahead to what’s coming up
in the September issue of OG, out
2 August.