Organic Gardening Magazine

Inside the Magazine

Magic pumpkins
mini to monster

Sunny gardens
make insects go wild!

Step by step
a cloche with class

How green
are the RHS shows?

Weeder’s digest
top 12 techniques

and so much more!

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Editor's Welcome!

I’m writing this from Shetland, where we’ve staged a strategic retreat after a difficult winter in Glasgow. We left behind a spring already well advanced – the daffodils were old news – and arrived here this morning to the first glimpses of gold amidst the huge blocks of green leaves which line the road north. The inhabitants of the northern isles plant daffodils by the thousand, their defiant blaze of glory heralding the return of the light.

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A cloche with class

You can’t have too many cloches… but where looks and size matter, the cost can be prohibitive. Toby Buckland turns his hand to making his own.

Does your cloche have class?

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This month in your garden

Anna Corbett provides the essential guide to work in your May garden.
May is here, bringing the first taste of early summer, but also the risk of lingering low temperatures, and in some areas even frost. British weather is nothing if not unpredictable! Be prepared to protect vulnerable plants in the garden, and to keep a close eye on seedlings and new plantings.

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Organic News

Local food now on the funding menu

Local Food, a new grants programme funded by the Big Lottery Fund, opened for applications on 17 March. The £50-million programme is aimed at making locally grown food accessible and affordable to local communities, and will look to distribute grants to a variety of food-related community projects across England.
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Chief Scientist acknowledges food shortage

It is so little mentioned (outside the pages of OG and like-minded publications) as to be almost a secret that global food shortage threatens to become a drastic threat to human survival. So applause for our new Chief Scientist, Professor John Beddington, who has put it on record not only that the threat exists, but that it rivals climate change in severity.

In a speech to a sustainable development conference in Westminster on 6 March, he said a 50 per cent rise in food output was needed to cope with population growth and other challenges, and that research was urgently needed to find ways of increasing the efficiency of agricultural production per unit of land.
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Planting for the long haul

It’s all too easy to put the seed packets back in the drawer come May, says Mike Clark – but now is the time to sow the brassicas that will keep you fed through winter ’09.

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Smile – it’s pumpkin time!

They look great, grow like magic and are delicious in the depths of winter – pumpkins have to be the ultimate feel-good crop, says Joyce Russell.

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