Product Description

This text provides the techniques needed for growing both popular and more unusual vegetables, including salad greens, brassicas, roots and tubers, onions and herbs. It treats each vegetable concisely with guidance on preparing the soil, sowing, transplanting, tending, harvesting and storage.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69759 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Ideal for the novice
This colourful and concise book explains in suitable detail the methods for growing all types of vegetables, including less common varieties such as horseradish and okra. The book also contains sections about vegetable fruits and herbs. It begins with the basics of growing vegetables: appropriate tools, preparing the soil. Watering, compost, manure and fertilisers are all given attention, as are the best sowing techniques. Each vegetable is discussed, along with useful tips relevant to each. A practical month-by-month guide for the gardening year is also included. The only drawback for the environmentally-friendly gardener is that it does not emphasise organic techniques enough, for the environment-conscious gardener.

Get back to the Good Life
This book is really helpful for those who are starting out with an allotment or a vegetable patch in the garden. This book is practical and full of useful information. It never confuses you yet neither does it over simplify things. Suitable for readers of all ages who want to try this relaxing pastime for themselves.

' The Good Life'
Having decided,due to ill health, to quit my job and retire early to my parents homeland i found myself with a huge plot of land and no idea what to do with it,and after watching a re-run of and old tv series of 'the good life' decided why not grow my own and attempt at being at least partially self sufficient.
Never having grown anything, except a bean stalk at school many years ago,I browsed through endless titles until I came across this one and have so far found it invaluable ,it tells you everything you need to know from what equipment you will need to how ro test and prepare soil,building your own compost bins as well as which seasons vegetables grow, when to sow, when to seed and the type of soil types they are happier in. If like me you have never grown your own and want to start I highly recomend this title.