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ELEGANT EDIBLES: THE ART OF TRAINED FRUIT TREES • Neat, productive and full of old-fashioned charm, trained fruit trees are a time-honoured feature of the kitchen garden. Martin Fish shares his expert advice on choosing shapes, training your own trees, and keeping them in good form for years to come

SUN-RIPENED, SHELF-READY • From the Andes to your allotment, tomatoes have come a long way – and Rob Smith shows you how to make the most of them

OUR TOP PLOTTERS • Last summer we launched a competition to find our Top Plotters, with the top three winning some great prizes and all being featured in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we feature one of our runners-up, an allotmenteer from County Durham

SOW NOW, EAT LATER! • This is the ideal time to plan and plant crops for bountiful harvests in winter and early spring. Emma O’Neill, head gardener at Garden Organic, shows you what’s good to sow now, making the most of Organic September

GREEN GOLD • Are you still putting out your grass clippings for garden waste collection? Stop! says Benedict Vanheems. Here are some simple but highly effective ways to put them to fantastic use in the garden or on the allotment

BUILDING A FOOD FOREST IN SCOTLAND • When Katrina and Peter moved to their East Ayrshire garden in 2019 they had no gardening experience – just a desire to live sustainably. Their food forest now feeds the family and supports their autistic son Clayton through the rhythms of nature

SO HOW ORGANIC IS ORGANIC? • Garden Organic’s Anton Rosenfeld discusses how you can be sure what you’re doing in your garden is organic and not harmful to your soil or wildlife

Fungi Foray • Becky Searle shares her tips on cultivating mushrooms at home -and explains why they deserve a place in every veg grower’s toolkit

PUT YOUR PERENNIALS TO BED • Whether your patch is fully mature or you’re just starting out, late summer is a crucial time for perennial veg, and making sure you complete a few simple but important jobs now will ensure strong, healthy growth and great harvests on your plot next year

USE THE HEALING POWER OF HERBS • Nicola Sabin, trustee of The Herb Society UK, explains how easy it is to grow herbs at home – whether in beds, pots or on windowsills – and how to use them in simple teas, remedies and everyday herbal care

A FIELD FULL OF CHARACTERS • There’s something timeless about a scarecrow. Whether they’re stuffed with straw, rigged up with tinsel and old CDs, or dressed like your uncle in his Sunday best, these silent sentinels have been guarding our plots for centuries. From ancient Egypt to the modern allotment, they’ve always had one job – to look menacingly ridiculous enough to keep the birds at bay

PRODUCT REVIEWS THREE JELLY KITS, ONE STICKY VERDICT • I love this time of year. Making jam marks the start of the slowing of the seasons, and is a great way to capture the flavours of the summer. With bumper harvests coming in at the moment, I put a few pieces of jam-making kit to the test

JELLY TIME • A piece of muslin hung from a cupboard door by a piece of string has served me well for decades, but it was time to get more professional. I chose three jelly...