Organic Garden & Home Magazine

Word of mouth

6 News
From the world of gardening and the environment with Sarah Lawson and John Greenway

10 Resources
Products from the gardening and green marketplaces

13 Letters

In the garden

16 Grow great veg!
Joyce Russell shows how to dry your seasonal gluts

20 Reuse and recycle
Toby Buckland shows you how to train unruly brambles

24 It’s showtime!
John Walker offers a round up of what Hampton Court had to offer greener gardeners this year.

28 This month
September’s gardening and growing calendar

30 Back to basics
Gaby Bartai begins a new three-part series on composting

34 Your best-ever tomatoes
Terry Marshall looks at the tomato-grower’s friend - comfrey

36 Starter for 10
Christina Maxfield digs up facts and folklore on our kitchen crops. This month she looks at peppers

39 Web watch
The best of the web with Helen Gazeley

40 Autumn propagation
Paul Hending shows ways to create new plants from old in your September garden

42 17th-century herb garden
Anna Parkinson shows how to brighten your garden with medicinal late-summer blooms

44 Pests and diseases
Paul Hending offers some timely advice

47 Backyard botany
Lucy Halliday explores the weird and wonderful world of plant science

Wildlife gardening

48 Hogs away
Gunars Ulmanis talks about caring for Lucky, his disabled hedgehog

52 Go wild!
Jenny Steel demonstrates how you can create a cornfield of colour in your garden

56 A bird’s eye view
Gunars Ulmanis continues his series on garden birds with a look at redwings and fieldfares

Green

58 Digging Deep
John Walker discusses the merits, or otherwise, of celebrity gardeners

Organic living

60 Fresh and local
Seasonal recipe inspiration from Gaby Bartai

62 Organic Fortnight
Sarah Lawson visits Sally Jackson from The Pink Pig to celebrate September’s Organic Fortnight

66 Meet the specialists
This month Ann Somerset Miles visits Cave’s Folly Nurseries in Malvern

69 Sense of place…
Sarah Lawson talks about EU regulations that could be the saviour of our local food heritage

73 Over the garden fence
What’s worth talking about this month

Events

74 Out and about
What’s on this month

Next month

81 October’s OG
Look ahead to what’s coming up in the October issue of OG, out 25 September