There is nothing like growing your own vegetables. The excitement of sowing a seed, seeing it come through the soil, growing it to harvest and then eating it is one of life's great thrills. You do not even need a garden to grow vegetables as a seedtray, an old plastic milk bottle, a takeaway food box or really any container that can provide a minimum depth of soil for the relevant crop can reap its rewards. In this book Christine Walkden tells you how to grow vegetables simply, even if you only have a window box or a window sill, and for those who have never tried before she highlights what may go wrong and how to avoid common mistakes. In these economically difficult times, growing your own veg is an attractive option for gardening novices as well as those with some experience.
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`Christine Walkden...has a no-nonsense and down-to-earth approach to gardening'
--Garden News 22/3
--Garden News 22/3
About the Author
Christine Walkden is best known for her own BBC series, Christine's Garden, broadcast in 2007. Since then she has gathered a small cult status due to her no-nonsense approach to gardening. Christine is the resident gardening expert on the One Show, has presented BBC's Gardeners World and is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's Gardener's Question Time, and various other tv and radio programmes and is a past winner of the Garden Writers' Guild Radio Broadcasting Award. She has written A Year in Christine's Garden - The Secret Diary of a Garden Lover ), The Houseplant Almanac and has a column in Amateur Gardening magazine. Christine also appeared as a guest on the December 2008 special of Shooting Stars.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Christine Walkden ( Patron - Rossendale Incredible Edible (IER), ROSSENDALE, Lancashire, UK )
No-nonsense Vegetable Gardening
Christine Walkden is well-known as BBC TV's `One Show' garden `guru', BBC Radio Four's `Gardeners' Question Time' - but in Lancashire also as the Patron of the public vegetable-growing project, Incredible Edible Rossendale (IER).
A sensibly-sized 165 pages in semi-hard covers which should wipe clean of compost or garden soil, this book covers all that an amateur vegetable gardener in England will need to know.
Two cautions: Christine gardens further south than Lancashire these days and on sandier soil than our mainly clay soils, so some advice may need to be `adjusted' for weather and soil type, and secondly, this book may seem a bit `scary' to the new gardener. But do not worry over these concerns: the worst likely to happen in the first case is that you have sown too early, and the crop fails to start, but as Christine says in the book, in one of her `tips', "if at first you don't succeed, sow again!" - but a couple of weeks later. The second point is a bit more of a concern, but - don't panic: reading her `Getting Started' simple `question and answer' section on page ten will clarify what you need to attend to, and where to find it in the book.
So for example, `site selection' may not seem to apply to you with maybe only a small paved patio area thinking "I haven't much choice where to plant", but read it anyway - and she will make you think about where the winds come from, which corner has sun all day, which wall will reflect heat back to the plants, and so on.... Read more ›
No-nonsense Vegetable Gardening
Christine Walkden is well-known as BBC TV's `One Show' garden `guru', BBC Radio Four's `Gardeners' Question Time' - but in Lancashire also as the Patron of the public vegetable-growing project, Incredible Edible Rossendale (IER).
A sensibly-sized 165 pages in semi-hard covers which should wipe clean of compost or garden soil, this book covers all that an amateur vegetable gardener in England will need to know.
Two cautions: Christine gardens further south than Lancashire these days and on sandier soil than our mainly clay soils, so some advice may need to be `adjusted' for weather and soil type, and secondly, this book may seem a bit `scary' to the new gardener. But do not worry over these concerns: the worst likely to happen in the first case is that you have sown too early, and the crop fails to start, but as Christine says in the book, in one of her `tips', "if at first you don't succeed, sow again!" - but a couple of weeks later. The second point is a bit more of a concern, but - don't panic: reading her `Getting Started' simple `question and answer' section on page ten will clarify what you need to attend to, and where to find it in the book.
So for example, `site selection' may not seem to apply to you with maybe only a small paved patio area thinking "I haven't much choice where to plant", but read it anyway - and she will make you think about where the winds come from, which corner has sun all day, which wall will reflect heat back to the plants, and so on.... Read more ›
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By I. Hoe
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This book does exactly what the title suggests - a down to earth (forgive the pun)guide that's easy to follow for the beginner who wants to grow vegetables successfully. Helpful pictures and diagrams are clear and supplement the straight talking text providing enough information to get on with the job without overwhelming the reader. But having said that, as someone who's been trying to grow vegetables successfully for longer than I care to remember, I found it a very useful quick reference book, too, with a range of useful tips from Christine that were new to me.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Fourbuns
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Exactly what it says in the title! Down to earth advice. I wish it had been published a year or so ago as it also covers a lot of the syllabus for the RHS Advanced modules!
Its an excellent reference book.
Its an excellent reference book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By maggid
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Christine makes gardening look easy and fun .Very good for reminding us lapsed gardeners who are starting again of the things we have forgotten and giving new ideas .For people who are starting out a very easy book to follow and find the info you are looking for.Good for larger gardens or as in my situation now smaller raised beds in a confined space ,of how to plan, which vegetables to grow when and guidelnes on the best for containers or garden. A good all round book.No-nonsense Vegetable Gardening
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By WelshJanet
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I bought this book for my mum who is a keen gardener. She told me the difference between this book and some of the other celebrity gardening books is that Christine is down to earth and straight forward. She doesn't ponce about trying to impress but just shares her knowledge practically. If you are interested in no-fuss vegetable gardening then I would recommend this.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent book on this subject and highly recommended for anyone contemplating 'growing their own'whether in a field, allotment, garden. or a plant pot !!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Geoff RG
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Forget the TV, GQT etc. This is about vegetables! Books are getting better at communicating even if the subject matter remains much the same.
There have been many good veg books, but this one benefits from being well-presented and clearly laid out. Ideal for people with small plots; allotment holders have a huge area surrounded by similar plots where progress can be compared and advice shared, which makes things a lot easier in many ways. But most of us have a private space that is far too small on the one hand, but maybe more than we can cope with on the other. Christine's own garden is just that; not a 'TV demo patch', but space she's put to good use as best she can.
It does simplify a lot of the traditional big-plot prize-winning talk. For example, the 3-year rotation is softened to 'what you can reasonably manage to do', and here the advice not to grow long-season crops like sprouts is fundamental; it is all too easy to follow traditional advice, only to find in November a row of brassicas waiting to mature when you are told to rough-dig their patch, hoping for 'a deep fine frost-weathered tilth' for the root crop when actually it was well firmed back in May to stop the sprouts blowing and will become even more compacted as you stomp around harvesting them through to March. You don't have to grow everything, just grow what you can and enjoy it.
I took the RHS general certificate course some years ago, and I know that this book is accurate and practical, aimed at people who enjoy gardening and eating their own produce. It does have some good technical stuff in it, so you can use it progressively, starting with the basics and the 'tips' (which are often short-cuts drawn from deep technical knowledge ) and gradually learning and improving.... Read more ›
There have been many good veg books, but this one benefits from being well-presented and clearly laid out. Ideal for people with small plots; allotment holders have a huge area surrounded by similar plots where progress can be compared and advice shared, which makes things a lot easier in many ways. But most of us have a private space that is far too small on the one hand, but maybe more than we can cope with on the other. Christine's own garden is just that; not a 'TV demo patch', but space she's put to good use as best she can.
It does simplify a lot of the traditional big-plot prize-winning talk. For example, the 3-year rotation is softened to 'what you can reasonably manage to do', and here the advice not to grow long-season crops like sprouts is fundamental; it is all too easy to follow traditional advice, only to find in November a row of brassicas waiting to mature when you are told to rough-dig their patch, hoping for 'a deep fine frost-weathered tilth' for the root crop when actually it was well firmed back in May to stop the sprouts blowing and will become even more compacted as you stomp around harvesting them through to March. You don't have to grow everything, just grow what you can and enjoy it.
I took the RHS general certificate course some years ago, and I know that this book is accurate and practical, aimed at people who enjoy gardening and eating their own produce. It does have some good technical stuff in it, so you can use it progressively, starting with the basics and the 'tips' (which are often short-cuts drawn from deep technical knowledge ) and gradually learning and improving.... Read more ›
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
my order
the book contains no nonsence gardening and items you can use that wont cost the earth lots of pictures so you know what its suppossed to look like,would reccomend this book esp to... Read more
Published 17 months ago by sue
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well presented
This is a great book if you are starting out. It has useful ideas and covers all the standard veg, but I would have liked to have seen a bit more variety in the veg she covers.
Published 20 months ago by nfb
5.0 out of 5 stars
No-nonsence Vegetable Gardening
Such sensible advice which can be followed by the least able vegetable gardener - makes one feel that you might actually manage to grow your own !
Published on 28 April 2011 by Jackie Arnot
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