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[Flummery]

I get the online version of GYO too. Very useful.

[bluemoon]

I've bought (and kept) every issue of GYO and was about to take out a subscription when they started to offer, as an introductory gift, a book that I already own. It seemed like a waste so I held off. Going to organise it today though. As for the competitions.....I've entered all those too and never won a thing!

[lainey lou]

I've kept all mine too, on a shelf in the downstairs loo, OH spends so much time in there thought he might pick them up and get interested!

[scarey55]

"The Rival Magazine" has recently started doing a 'digital' subscription, where you download the magazine onto your computer, it's about a third of the price of a UK subscription. This looks like a fantastic idea for the 'overseas' buyer, and I hope GYO jump on the bandwagon really soon

Amen to that

[SarzWix]

I get the online version of GYO too. Very useful.

Where have you found that Flum? If you click on "Subscribe" on the home page, it doesn't give you any option for an E-Magazine...?

[Alison]

Where have you found that Flum? If you click on "Subscribe" on the home page, it doesn't give you any option for an E-Magazine...?

Was going to ask them same question, get a newsletter by e-mail but that's all.

[wormlady]

Um, I probably wont be very popular but I subscribe to Organic Gardening which I quite like. Its probably quite similar to GYO but Ive never seen GYO in the shops so Ive never had a chance to look at it so I cant compare the two. Theres another one called Kitchen Gardening too.
OG has free seeds giveaways (organic of course) and has a two page spread on things to do in your garden/allotment this month, recipies, news on all things organic, recently had a bunch on info on blight resistant spuds (sarpo mira) and so on.
Anyone at GYO want to send me a freebie copy to see if I can be converted??!
Is GYO organic or just regular gardening?

[Flummery]

Where have you found that Flum? If you click on "Subscribe" on the home page, it doesn't give you any option for an E-Magazine...?

I can't remember? I had an option when I signed up for the real mag and I said YES, Well you would wouldn't you? I wonder if the Admin people (the admirable Dave for e.g.) could point people in the right direction?

[Flummery]

Was going to ask them same question, get a newsletter by e-mail but that's all.

Doh - it's a bummer being old. The home page always has the articles and you can click the links to get full write-ups etc. That's what I meant. Seems magazine-like to me.

[Two_Sheds]

We get Amateur Gardening every week (as well as GYO every month).
AG is good, lots of different topics, good on "how to", a cookery page, some good younger female writers ...
on the neg side however, some of the writers are pretty anti-organic, anti-Monty etc. And their free seeds are fairly pants.

[rustylady]

Got to be Grow Your Own. I've got a subscription and look forward to receiving it every month. Free seeds are a bonus, and thankfully most of the GYO ones are veg. Also get Amateur Gardening - good light read, but last year's free seeds were all fairly obscure flower seeds which I didn't want to grow.

[multiveg]

Um, I probably wont be very popular but I subscribe to Organic Gardening which I quite like. Its probably quite similar to GYO but Ive never seen GYO in the shops so Ive never had a chance to look at it so I cant compare the two. Theres another one called Kitchen Gardening too.
OG has free seeds giveaways (organic of course) and has a two page spread on things to do in your garden/allotment this month, recipies, news on all things organic, recently had a bunch on info on blight resistant spuds (sarpo mira) and so on.
Anyone at GYO want to send me a freebie copy to see if I can be converted??!
Is GYO organic or just regular gardening?

I also subscribe to OG and used to subscribe to KG. I find GYO a bit too glossy to read, though I did buy the Feb 2008 issue. Sometimes I find with subscribing to a magazine is that I am not all that eager to read it when it comes through the letterbox - its the conscious decision made to buy a magazine makes me more eager to read it (and am disappointed if I can't buy it that day - which is often what happened with OG as the local WHS didn't stock it, now they do). From another thread- its also how relevant the issue is to there and then - good to see Feb issue means Feb, though Feb issue of OG covers January!

[smallblueplanet]

We only subscribe to GW (via Tesco clubcard deals) but had Febs issue of GYO bought me. Perhaps it seems an odd thing to say say but I thought the font size was a bit small for comfortable reading? Also didn't warm to the layout, don't know why, one of those things. I prefer KG, but don't buy that atm either.