Book Description
This book is about how to make your garden productive in a variety of ways, for both expert and gardening novice alike, at minimum cost and in an innovative and self-financing way. For those who know little or nothing about gardening this will start you on your way, for it's not just the physical garden and its ever-changing visual appeal that's exciting, but the journey to that end which holds the real excitement - a journey of discovery and self-fulfilment.
Choosing plants to grow, organising time and space (you don't need much of either!)detering slugs, getting the best from the plants and even how to sell excess plants should you wish (to make money for yourself, a particular charity or cause) are all covered here.
The author writes from real experience, growing plants in the not always ideal location of Ross-shire in Scotland, as he says "if I can do it, anybody can".
Choosing plants to grow, organising time and space (you don't need much of either!)detering slugs, getting the best from the plants and even how to sell excess plants should you wish (to make money for yourself, a particular charity or cause) are all covered here.
The author writes from real experience, growing plants in the not always ideal location of Ross-shire in Scotland, as he says "if I can do it, anybody can".
From the Author
Patrick Vickery also writes a regular monthly article called 'A Gardening Blether' (gardening, anecdotal, humourous)for his local website (Tainonline.com) as well as for a number of gardening websites around the world.
About the Author
Patrick Vickery also writes a regular series of short articles called the "Garden Blether" (gardening, anecdotal, humourous, off-beat)for a number of garden websites and magazines around the world.
Excerpted from In Pursuit of Perrenial Profit - the Pot of Gold at the Bottom of the Garden by Patrick Vickery. Copyright © 2001. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
"Plants are expensive to buy whereas in reality there's no need for this. The plants we buy at Garden Centres up and down the country would cost us pennies if we grew them ourselves...
...But what if we grew these plants easily and cheaply ourselves without the help of a greenhouse or a polytunnel, just in a plot of soil in the back garden or in a neglected flowerbed? ....And if this is easy and cheap to do, then why not grow surplus plants and sell them ourselves?"
...But what if we grew these plants easily and cheaply ourselves without the help of a greenhouse or a polytunnel, just in a plot of soil in the back garden or in a neglected flowerbed? ....And if this is easy and cheap to do, then why not grow surplus plants and sell them ourselves?"
