This guide from the experts of Kew Royal Botanical Gardens is filled
with tips and advice to help you grow your best vegetable garden
ever! In this book Kew's Kitchen Gardener, Helena Dove, combines
practical elements with inspiration and beauty to make a comprehensive
and informative guide with all you need to know to master theart of
growing vegetables. She shows how to grow some of the most popular
staple crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, radishes and rocket, and
also some more unusual and exciting choices such as oca, tomatillo,
seakale and yacon. She gives easy to follow instructions on how to be
a successful vegetable gardener, plus 12 exciting projects to try
throughout the year including forcing rhubarb, creating an asparagus
border and growing in raised beds. From sowing, to planting young
plants, to hardening off and harvesting, find out what you need to do
and when, to produce the most magnificent harvests. All the advice
is underpinned by the expertise and authority of the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew and illustrated from Kew's world-famous botanical
collection. With this book, you wil be able to reap a rich
bounty of delicious vegetables from just a few packets of seed and
some fertile ground! This book is from the Kew Experts series, in
which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic
Kew Gardens offer up advice and information as well as suggesting
handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles
include: Companion to Medicinal Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs,
Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing
Roses, Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees,
Guide to Growing Herbs and Guide to Growing House Plants.
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The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Vegetables
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780711242791
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter