Product Description

This beautifully illustrated follow-up to Andi Clevely's bestseller, The Allotment Book, celebrates the joys of both growing and cooking your own produce. Perfect for the complete beginner or the experienced allotmenteer, The Allotment Book: Seasonal Planner and Cookbook will ensure your crops thrive and your table is laden all year round. Allotment gardening is in the grip of a renaissance, with over 300,000 allotments in the UK and a new breed of allotment enthusiast, whose typical characteristic is that they are not typical. With more young professionals on allotments than ever before, as well families and even groups of friends embracing the vibrancy of allotment culture, people are mucking in to cultivate their own crops. This is the perfect book for those with a passion for the outdoors and a taste for food warm from the sun. Andi Clevely helps you to assess your plot and decide what to grow. Once your plot is up and running, he guides you through the year season by season, reminding you of essential tasks, preparing you for extreme weather, and teaching techniques such as composting and crop rotation.Each section celebrates a particular crop and offers plenty of opportunity for using your produce with tempting recipes as well as ideas for storing and preserving. Contents Include: / Essential growing tips and techniques / Checklists of key tasks and timings -- when to sow, plant, and harvest / Crop focus -- exploring the tendencies and benefits of particular varieties / Eco-friendly suggestions for pest control and disease management. / Ergonomics and safety advice / Tales of successful allotmenteers and allotment culture / Over 100 beautifully photographed seasonal recipes for all occasions

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10748 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Garden News
Armed with your seasonal checklist and the potential for kitchen brilliance, you're left convinced that this will be your most organised, self-sufficient and delicious year yet.

Waterstone's Books Quarterly
Ideal for anyone thinking about an allotment, or even just a back-garden vegetable plot.

BBC Countryfile Magazine
Your bumper harvest is guaranteed.

Customer Reviews

A really good book for the new allotmenteer !
I got my allotment last year and someone kindly bought me Andi Clevely's "The Allotment Book" and also this "Allotment Seasonal Planner".

I'm very impressed with both of them and they compliment each other very well. I can strongly recommend them both if, like me, you're fairly new to growing your own or you need some help in improving your skills. I've looked at a few other similar books too and I think these are about the best I've seen... I was just lucky to be given them.

The Allotment Book tells you how to do the basics and how to get started. The Seasonal Planner assumes you can do these things but helps you organise your work so that you learn to do the most important things at the right time.

The Seasonal Planner also includes some recipe ideas for your fruit and veg which are quite a nice addition, but the book is first and foremost about how to plan your time on the allotment to help you be successful.

Allotment Seasonal Planner
A little bit like Andy Clevely's previous book: "The allotment book" with more recipes. Still a good buy though if you do not own the other one.

Really useful Book
I have gardenened, like many of us for years. Good practical growing information. I had not really looked into many gardening books but this one I beleive is great. I always have surplus of many things and the recipe ideas are really good for changing or presenting in another way, something I had been doing the same for years. I like the planting cycle tables too. Lovely photos.