Organic Garden & Home Magazine

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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

12 LETTERS

IN THE GARDEN

16 GROW GREAT VEG!
ON THE COVER
Joyce Russell shows how to make the most of the autumn leaf fall in your garden

20 101 WAYS TO SAVE MONEY
ON THE COVER
Gunars Ulmanis offers top tips to keep the credit crunch at bay in your garden

24 BACK TO BASICS
ON THE COVER
Gaby Bartai gives the lowdown on a hot, hot compost heap

28 GYO PLANT SUPPORTS
ON THE COVER
Ann Somerset Miles shows how you can raise the stakes

32 THIS MONTH
October’s gardening and
growing calendar

34 STARTER FOR 10
ON THE COVER
Christina Maxfield digs up facts and folklore on our kitchen crops. This month she looks at kohlrabi

38 IT’S SHOWTIME!
John Walker offers part two of his report from Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

42 17TH-CENTURY HERB GARDEN
Anna Parkinson shows how imports from America impacted on the British herb garden

44 TRIED AND TESTED
Jenny Leighton looks into ways you can barter your fruit and veg

46 BACKYARD BOTANY
Lucy Halliday explores the weird and wonderful world of plant science

48 PESTS AND DISEASES
ON THE COVER
Paul Hending offers some timely advice

50 TOOL CARE
ON THE COVER
Mike Clark begins the first part of a new series looking at tool maintenance

54 YOUR BEST-EVER TOMATOES
Terry Marshall looks at keeping your tomato crop going into the autumn

56 TWENTY QUESTIONS
ON THE COVER
Sarah Lawson interviews head gardener, Katie Tippens, at Garden Organic Ryton

63 WEB WATCH
The best of the web with
Helen Gazeley

WILDLIFE GARDENING

58 A BIRD’S EYE VIEW
Gunars Ulmanis continues his series on garden birds with a look at robins

60 GO WILD!
ON THE COVER
Jenny Steel offers advice on encouraging bumblebees into your garden

GREEN

64 DIGGING DEEP
John Walker talks about the sunlight you run your garden on

ORGANIC LIVING

66 MEET THE SPECIALISTS
This month Ann Somerset Miles goes behind the scenes to look at organising a village flower show

68 FRESH AND LOCAL
ON THE COVER
Seasonal recipe inspiration from Gaby Bartai

70 NATURAL WORLD
ON THE COVER
Sarah Lawson visits a Lincolnshire couple to find out how beekeeping fits into their version of the good life

EVENTS

74 OUT AND ABOUT
What’s on this month

NEXT MONTH

80 OCTOBER’S OG
Look ahead to what’s coming up in the October issue of OG, out 30 October