Best Gardening Magazines...?

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

Hi all,

I'm going to ask Santa for a gardening mag subscription, I'm thinking of The Kitchen Garden, are there any better ones?

Thanks! :money:

Marco12452

Not sure what you're after in terms of content rainbow, but the BBC Gardeners World mag is good all round content. Also has quite a few freebie plant / veg / seed offers, sometimes requiring postage though.

Lotus-eater

I think that KG used to be the best, but probably pipped at the post by "Grow your own" now. But really not much in it between them. That's the best of the grow food mags, not sure about any other type.

katiel

I was given GYO as a gift subscription last year, which somehow meant nobody got the freebies offered when you sign up. Other than that, I thought it was a good read with worthwhile cover offers and some good glut recipes. You only need a year's worth though of any I think if you're looking at fruit and veg advice - then they start repeating themselves.

billieboy_2

I bought GYO for a friend's birthday a couple of years ago (and she passed them on to me ) and thought it was very good with good free gifts on the cover.

enrich100

I buy GYO off the shelf and I enjoy using the GYO forum which is great for veg growing, I have a subscription to Garden News, with Garden News its weekly, its only £1, you get lots of free seeds if you need them, it covers Flower veg and fruit, I would find it difficult to say which one prefer as ones weekly and ones monthly

wssla00

I am liking amateur gardening weekly at the mo. It's good as it's weekly and has jobs to do for that week plus info on a certain other project that can be for the year ahead. Also a weekly free seed gift is good. I think I am going to ask for this as a sub for christmas.

Sambucus_Nigra

I think it's very much down to the reader; sometimes GYO is the best but sometimes KG [this month for example] is a fab read; and I have to stop myself from buying this

shegar

I buy Garden News weekly, its very informative, I do like the wildlife page at the back, it keeps you up to date with what to do in the coming week in the garden ...

I buy Gardeners World monthly..

dogstarheaven

I tend to borrow the RHS 'The Garden' and 'Gardening Which' magazines from my library. Newspaper gardening columns in the Times and Guardian and Observer, I've found v. useful as they have regular 'to do' jobs each week, and specific write-ups on a given, in-season topic. Books that are recmd, I borrow too from the library.

[Deleted User]

I chose gardeners world lately and received my first copy today. It is a lovely, comprehensive magazine and I get the first 5 copies for £5