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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.

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Episode 17 is all about June – Emma talks about seeds you can sow in June for summer, autumn and winter harvests and Madeleine from Mad About Herbs explains how to harvest and make use of the elderflowers which are blooming in hedgerows.

Pete helps out with reader’s tips on water-wise gardening and picks out the winner of Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator.

Chiltern Seeds have an enormous selection of seeds, both edible and ornamental, and have been kind enough to donate two gift tokens to giveaway to AKG listeners. If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning, listen to the show for how to enter.


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