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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.
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.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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!
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!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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"!
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"!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is quite a heavy book for it's size. It should be used as an aide memoir, not as a grow your own reference book. There are others for that. But there is room to make your notes, and useful reminders and tips for growing.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
As good as new.
I bought this book as 'used but in very good condition'.I knew that I liked the book itself as I have one most years and on that basis obviously like it. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Pat.L
first time growing your own
I bought this book as it was recommended to me. I am so glad I bought it as I have used it throughout last Summer and over the Winter periods. Read more
Published 16 months ago by netty
Grow Your Own Veg Journal - a great gardening diary
This will be a very useful way of recording what I do as I do it, so in the coming year will be able to modify it for the better. Read more
Published 17 months ago by janesch
Misses the point becaue it's to big.
To be useful this book needs to be pockets size, bit it isn't. Instead it's of a size where you may as well take a how to grow veg book and a notebook with you. Misses the point.
Published 24 months ago by N. Booth
Mistaken purchase
I was a bit dissapointed with this purchase although it was my own fault. I thought it was the grow your own veg manual and not the journal so therefore I can not give a true... Read more
Published on 21 April 2010 by D. Reehal
Not the book I needed
I was looking for thorough and in-depth advice on growing your own veg. Instead I got a book with very good pictures, few tips and some recipes??? Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2010 by L.P.
Excellent Companion
Great companion to grow your own veg by Carol. Don't expect masses of new information, just a good way of presenting it.
Published on 20 Feb 2010 by Peter Bruch
Ideal companion for a new allotment holder
My partner and I are just creating a new allotment and I bought this as a present for her to keep track of what we are doing.
She's very pleased with it and so am I. Read more
She's very pleased with it and so am I. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2010 by J. B. Bird
Grow Your Own Veg Journal
I bought this as a birthday present for my best friend a year after my nephew bought it for me. It's a really handy book, great for making notes or for just dipping into week by... Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2010 by Ms. Julie C. Hobbs
A great little book
........for taking down the allottment and keeping handy in the shed. Just the right size with all the right information we needed to start organising our new allottment.
Published on 7 Jan 2010 by Mrs. L. P. Grant
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