Organic Gardening Magazine

Features

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

10 Resources
From the gardening and
green marketplaces

13 Letters

16 BACK TO BASICS
Gaby Bartai continues her look
at soil nutrients

20 Grow great veg
ON THE COVER
Joyce Russell shows how to create a
great drying cupboard to help with the seasonal gluts

24 This month
August’s gardening and
growing calendar

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

30 It’s showtime!
John Walker offers a round up of what Gardeners’ World Live had to offer greener gardeners

34 REUSE AND RECYCLE
ON THE COVER
Toby Buckland shows you how to make a home-made irrigation system

37 Web watch
The best of the web with
Helen Gazeley

38 17th-century garden
Anna Parkinson shows the best ways of keeping your August herb garden watered using some age-old techniques

40 Pests and diseases
ON THE COVER
Paul Hending shows how to fight
for your fruit this month

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

44 Your best-ever tomatoes
Terry Marshall looks at lycopene and
its role in tomato ripening

 

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Regulars

46 A bug’s life
In the last of this series Gunars Ulmanis looks at ladybirds and the increased threat from the harlequin

52 Go wild!
ON THE COVER
Jenny Steel goes on the wing with
summer butterflies

56 A bird’s eye view
Gunars Ulmanis continues his series on garden birds with the goldfinch

58 Digging Deep
John Walker looks at growing
your own biofuels

60 SEASONAL EATING
Inspirational recipes from Gaby Bartai

62 Health and healing
ON THE COVER
Sarah Lawson visits a BTCV Green Gym in Wakefield to see how an allotment is changing the lives of the volunteer gardeners

66 Me and my…
ON THE COVER
Lisa Buckland investigates battery hen rescue

70 Meet the specialists
This month Ann Somerset Miles meets author Geraldene Holt

72 Out and about
What’s on this month

80 September’s OG
Look ahead to what’s coming up in the September issue of OG, out 28 August