Product Description

Here is a gardening book with a difference; a complete grow-it, cook-it guide to fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables. Pick a crop and this comprehensive A-Z handbook will guide you step-by-step through every stage of choosing varities, planting, growing and harvesting. There are tips for making the most of your fabulously fresh ingredients in your cooking. There are also dozens of tempting recipes for preserving a glut of produce as delicious chutneys, jams, wines and more. Whether you've got an allotment or just a backyard plot, a raised bed or a container, you can grow fresh, nutritious and healthy seasonal food. There's lots of advice on growing organically so that you know exactly what you're putting on your plate. And, when you can measure your food miles in metres from plot to pot, you can be sure that you're helping the environment too.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #205312 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
Review from The Daily Telegraph - A comprehensive A-Z handbook that guides you through every step, from choosing varieties through planting, growing, harvesting and using up seasonal gluts with delicious recipes. --The Daily Telegraph

Review from BBC Gardens Illustrated - A slightly old-fashioned but reliable guide to growing, cooking and preserving food. --BBC Gardens Illustrated

Review from Birmingham Post - Food From Your Garden & Allotment is just about the only book most of us will need when it comes to growing fruit and vegetables at home. It is a truly comprehensive book, but always approachable, easy to understand and a pleasure to read. Its style is direct, tremendously informative, inviting and friendly. --Birmingham Post

Pick a crop and this comprehensive A-Z handbook will guide you step-by-step through every stage of choosing varieties, painting, growing and harvesting. --Country Kitchen

Pick a crop and this comprehensive A-Z handbook will guide you step-by-step through every stage of choosing varieties, painting, growing and harvesting. --Country Kitchen

Customer Reviews

Food from your Garden and Allotment
An excellent book which tells you how to grow and then cook or preserve your produce. Highly recommend.

Most informative book ever!
Saw a 1975 version of this book at my uncles house, was really impressed. I bought the new up to date version and was even more impressed. This is so informative from seed to cropping to freezing and recipes. A must have for every wannabe fruit and veg gardener what ever size of plot you have.

Allotment
Good book purchased for a niece who has just taken over an allotment and cannot wait for the spring to get digging.