Organic Gardening Magazine

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6 NEW SERIES
Tip top toms
Grow your best-ever crop of greenhouse tomatoes with Terry Marshall’s expert help! This month: varieties, timing, and tips and techniques for successful sowing.

16 Wild plots
No fruit, no ponds, and even, on some sites, no flowers? Allotments may be undergoing a renaissance, says Gunars Ulmanis, but are they leaving wildlife out in the cold?

22 Let’s hear it for leeks
Hardy, high-yielding and big on taste: leeks have to be high on anyone’s winter veg list, says Joyce Russell.

26 NEW SERIES
Get the drift!
Hone your scavenging skills and build Toby Buckland’s salvage-chic garden bench.

30 Proof in the eating
The infrastructure of his £250 garden came in on budget – but what of the first year’s crops? Dave Bevan reveals the bottom line.

34 Food for friends
This is the hardest time of year for garden wildlife, and a well-stocked garden and bird table can be a lifeline, says Jenny Steel.

38 Ancient wisdom
John Yeoman sifts a 16th century gardening book – and finds a surprising amount of advice that holds good today.

46 Turning off the tap
‘Peak oil’ – the moment when oil supplies begin to run out – is imminent. So is it wise for organic gardening to be developing along such oil-dependent lines? asks John Walker.

50 Wild harvest
Ann Somerset Miles discovers how Julian Warrender turned a passion for foraging into an award-winning business.
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12 10 things about… Jerusalem artichokes
Christina Maxfield digs up facts, folklore, tips and techniques on our kitchen garden crops.

42 Gardener in the kitchen
Seasonal recipes from Anna Corbett.

44 This month in your garden
Helen Penrose checks off jobs coming up in February.

48 Q&As
Christina Maxfield answers your queries.

49 NEW SERIES
Backyard botany
Lucy Halliday delves into the weird and wonderful world of plant science, starting with the plants that grow homes for their bodyguards.

52 Organic news
John Greenway and Kate Chancellor report.

56 The permaculture plot
Can’t afford that polytunnel just yet? Yes you can, says Paul Jennings – here’s how to build yourself a tunnel for a tenner!

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

62 Tom Petherick’s garden diary
Since the only constant in gardening nowadays is uncertainty, how best to approach a new season? asks Tom.

63 Webwatch
Virtual gardening with Helen Gazeley.

66 Out & about
What’s on for gardeners?

68 Book reviews
The pick of the new titles.

70 Letters
Your news, views and comments.

72 Next month
A look ahead to what’s coming up in the March issue of OG, out February 28.