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
From the gardening and green marketplaces

12 Letters

 

IN THE GARDEN

16 How to...
ON THE COVER
Joyce Russell shows how to make a seasonal planter from hazel

20 Tried and tested
ON THE COVER
Jenny Leighton shows how you can waste not want not with composting toilets

24 Back to basics
ON THE COVER
Gaby Bartai concludes her three-part series on composting

28 This month
November’s gardening and growing miscellany

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

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

34 How dangerous is your garden?
ON THE COVER
Gunars Ulmanis looks at keeping safe in the garden in the first of a two-part feature

38 Tool care
ON THE COVER
Mike Clark addresses the maintenance of powered garden machinery in the second of his four-part series

41 Web watch
The best of the web with Helen Gazeley

46 17th-century herb garden
ON THE COVER
Anna Parkinson shows how to make the most of herbal winter warmers

48 Your best-ever tomatoes
ON THE COVER
Terry Marshall looks at indoor ripening

50 Pests and diseases
ON THE COVER
Paul Hending offers some timely advice on November’s nasties

52 It’s showtime!
John Walker offers a round-up of what Tatton Park Flower Show had to inspire greener gardeners

 

WILDLIFE GARDENING

56 Go wild!
ON THE COVER
Jenny Steel shows how you can create a haven for insects over the winter

60 A bird’s eye view
Gunars Ulmanis continues his series on garden birds with a look at dunnocks

GREEN

62 Digging Deep
John Walker looks at the fight to win our hearts and trowels

64 Living greener
ON THE COVER
Sarah Lawson finds out more about life in the UK’s first earth-sheltered, self-sufficient ecological housing development

ORGANIC LIVING

68 How we used to eat
ON THE COVER
Keith Gregson takes some growing and eating inspiration from our prehistoric ancestors in the first of a new series

70 Fresh and local
ON THE COVER
Seasonal recipe inspiration from Gaby Bartai

72 Meet the specialists
This month Ann Somerset Miles offers some advice on marketing your own business

EVENTS

74 Out and about
What’s on this month

NEXT MONTH

80 December’s OG
Look ahead to what’s coming up in the December issue of OG, out 27 November

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