- Paperback: 191 pages
- Publisher: Mitchell Beazley; 3rd Revised edition edition (18 Mar 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840001526
- ISBN-13: 978-1840001525
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 16 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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- #36 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening > Fruit & Vegetables
- #90 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening > Plants
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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.
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Not always the most popular chore in the gardener's calendar, digging is done for three reasons: to ensure that annual weeds are buried; to introduce manure or compost into the ground; and to aerate the soil. Read the first page
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Not always the most popular chore in the gardener's calendar, digging is done for three reasons: to ensure that annual weeds are buried; to introduce manure or compost into the ground; and to aerate the soil. Read the first page
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180 of 184 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ideal for the novice,
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This review is from: Growing Vegetables (Royal Horticultural Society's Encyclopaedia of Practical Gardening) (Paperback)
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great guide for keen amateurs,
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This review is from: Growing Vegetables (Royal Horticultural Society's Encyclopaedia of Practical Gardening) (Paperback)
We bought this book as we have recently been allocated an allotment and had no clue as to how to get started. This book is very easy to follow with step-by-step instructions, tips and techniques on how to prepare your plot, remove weeds, fertilise it and get started. The diagrams and illustrations are very useful and help bring the information to life. We are looking forward to reaping the rewards of some hard work next year! Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Growing Vegetables (Royal Horticultural Society's Encyclopaedia of Practical Gardening) (Paperback)
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.
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