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Growing Vegetables, Herbs & Fruit

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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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
May 18th, 2015
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
over 1400 photographs
Pages
512
Dimensions
177x227x36
ISBN-13
9780754830665
Product ID
22839881

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