Product Description

No month-by-month journal has ever made it so easy for the gardener to get the most from their veg plot. Carol Klein and the RHS experts consider every stage in the process. From buying seed, sowing, planting and feeding, to harvesting and effective storage.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5315 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
Best-known for her regular TV appearances on BBC's Grow Your Own Veg, Gardeners' World and Open Gardens, Carol Klein is an internationally renowned gardener. Manchester-born, Carol moved to Devon in the late 1970s with her husband and two daughters. She started propagating plants because she couldn't afford to buy the ones she wanted for her own garden. Friends suggested she sell the spares, so Carol opened a stall in the local market, and eventually she opened her own nursery, which is now a thriving business. Carol has designed four commercial show gardens at Chelsea and won five Chelsea gold medals. For over 200 years, the Royal Horticultural Society, Britain's premier gardening charity, has been promoting horticultural excellence by providing inspiration through its shows, gardens and publications. Funded mainly from membership subscriptions, the RHS provides advice and information to its members, whatever their level of skill.

Customer Reviews

Exactly what I would want for Christmas
I am a second-year allotment holder only just getting down to really understanding what I have taken on, and I love this little book. Firstly, it's a journal with blank pages for you to record everything you do, with a page per week. I am hoping it will last at least five years as I only write a few sentences per week, and that will enable me to compare across the years how well/badly I did, what jobs I was doing at what time, etc.

However it also gives a clear summary of "jobs for the month", and it has seasonal recipes from Carol's collection, and it's also really full of useful info (e.g. pages on "chitting potatoes" and "blanching vegetables" ) which will be a shortcut reminder of all the careful advice contained in the big Grow Your Own book.

However DO note that this isn't that book - I think perhaps the first reviewer on here got confused and that's why his wife was disappointed. This is a much smaller book that you could take with you to the allotment to note down where you planted your onions etc, to fold seed packets and planting plans into (it has a useful orange elastic to keep all that stuff in there too - and a wipeable cover, for muddy fingers...).

Honestly if I got this for Christmas I would be soooo pleased, and it's nice and cheap too!

Grow Your Own Veg Journal
A good addition to Carol Kleins original Grow Your Own Veg book from the BBC series.

Lots of good advice and tips for the first time veg grower. Good photographs showing what your plants "should" look like at varies stages of the growing cycle.

Space for making notes, keeping a diary of what you have planted etc.

I would recomend it for anyone who is thinking of growing their own veg for the first time.

Carol Klein "Rocks"!

Brilliant mothers day gift
My children bought me this book for mothers day. It's great with really practical advice for the beginner veg grower and recipes too. I've already started to record my planting and will be using this for a good few years yet.