This is a step-by-step guide to kitchen and allotment gardening with 1400 photographs. It shows you how to design a kitchen garden, with plans for a range of gardens of all shapes and sizes, including potagers and large-scale vegetable plots. It includes directories of all the main vegetables, herbs and fruit, with expert advice on cultivation, crop rotation and the best varieties to choose from. It features step-by-step practical advice on the best tools to use, preparing the soil, sowing, transplanting, propagation, training, harvesting and storage, as well as on all aspects of cultivating vegetables and herbs, and planting, pruning and propagating fruit trees. Growing your own produce is highly rewarding, and this book gives you all the knowledge you require to plan and plant your own crops. There are detailed sections on how to design a variety of kitchen and herb gardens. Beautiful plans and clear planting lists provide the inspiration to create vegetable plots, potagers, fruit gardens and container gardens.The book explains how to choose vegetables, herbs and fruit to suit different locations, the best way to lay out a garden, and how to grow and maintain everything from broccoli and potatoes to lavender and raspberries. With over 1400 photographs, this is a reference manual for all allotment gardeners.
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Practical advice on growing your own produce whether you have a large garden, allotment or a container, from planning and planting to cultivation and cropping.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780754830665
Publisert
2015-05-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Lorenz Books
Vekt
1443 gr
Høyde
227 mm
Bredde
177 mm
Dybde
36 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
512

Biographical note

Richard Bird is a full-time gardening author who has written numerous books on fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit. Jessica Houdret has grown herbs commercially, and written articles and books about the ways they can contribute to health and well-being.