Product Description

This book is a new and significantly revised version of the much acclaimed Charleston Kedding: A History of Kitchen Gardening, which was published in 1996. In that book the story revolved around a fictional kitchen garden, but in this new edition, the author has been able to disclose her main source and her book is all the better for being able to turn on the true story of the kitchen garden at Pyewell Park in Hampshire and its team of gardeners. The amazing secrets of the hotbed, the backsheds and the pineapple frame are laid bare in this extraordinary and delightfully written account of the ups and downs of the kitchen garden.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67327 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Review
exhaustively detailed and utterly fascinating (Organic Gardening )

an enjoyable book for the kitchen gardener, food lovers and those who love their history. If you've never grown your own this will definitely give you the taste for it (Garden Answers )

We have a sense of real plants growing in real gardens and even the garden history seems to come alive within this context ... a smashing book (Journal of the Museum of Garden History )

Journal of the Museum of Garden History, Spring 2006
'This is a smashing book, full of interest'

The Professional Gardener, January 2006
'Susan Campbell has written a wonderful book ... fascinating reading ... a thoroughly enjoyable book that I will revisit frequently.'

Customer Reviews

A history tour through a kitchen garden
This book is a delight to read. Each page unfolds with a little information about the design and evolution of the kitchen garden. It follows the needs of vegetable growers in the early days through to the large estates who grew vegetables that today we only import from outside the UK.
The dedication to the kitchen garden is always close to the surface as you follow in the tour round the kitchen garden. Tips are placed through out the book so new gems are there to make you stop and think how they could be used again in your smaller garden to produce some of the year round bounty that was a real part of the old kitchen gardeners skills.