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This book introduces us to the author's top 80 perennial leafy
green vegetables and will be of interest both to traditional
vegetable and even ornamental gardeners. It includes recipes
inspired by local traditional gastronomy. This book takes us on an
original and inspiring adventure around the temperate world,
introducing us to the author's top 80 perennial leafy green
vegetables. We are taken underground gardening in Tokyo, beach
gardening in the UK, and traditional roof gardening in the
Norwegian mountains...There are stories of the wild foraging
traditions of indigenous people in all continents: from the Maori
of New Zealand and the rich food traditions of the Mediterranean
peoples to the high altitude food plants of the Sherpas in the
Himalayas. Around the World in 80 Plants will be of interest both
to traditional vegetable and ornamental. A thorough description is
given of each vegetable, its traditions, stories, cultivation,
where to source seed and plants, and how to propagate it.Sprinkled
with recipes inspired by local traditional gastronomy, this is a
fascinating book, an entertaining adventure, and a real milestone
in climate-friendly vegetable growing from a pioneering expert on
the subject.
The National Trust looks after many of Britain's most important and
beloved buildings - its sheds. They lurk in the shadow of grand
country houses; they brave the elements on the tops of cliffs; they
have inspired famous writers and housed everything from beehives to
birdwatchers. These beautiful, inspiring and eccentric structures
are as individual as their owners. A Victorian coastal shed in
Cornwall is where the Reverend Hawker went to write verse, and
smoke opium. It's also the smallest building cared for by the
National Trust. George Bernard Shaw's shed could be rotated
throughout the day to make the most of the sun, while sculptor
Barbara Hepworth used hers for napping in. Rather than a place in
which to create, many of these sheds are the creation. Alongside
the literary writing dens and horticultural hideaways there are
also floating sheds, coastguards' sheds, artists' studios, summer
houses, beach huts, camping pods, bothies, teahouses, follies and
much more.
James Gregory, a seedsman from the early 1800, describes and
details his methods and experiences of growing onions commercially.
The information contained in the book is just as relevant today to
gardeners with vegetable plots and allotments, as it was to the
commercial growers of the time. His advice on soil types, manure,
sowing and planting, hoeing and weeding will help any vegetable
grower achieve good crops without the use of modern chemical
applications.
It is one thing to produce tomatoes or pumpkins - or any other
fruit or vegetable for the table - as they come into season, but it
becomes another when you realise that most crops in the garden
arrive in gluts with no more to be had for another year unless you
do something about it. This book shows you how to make the best use
of your highly nutritious, home-grown produce. Bob begins in the
garden, showing you how to achieve a more continuous crop as well
as how to extend your harvest. He then steps into the kitchen to
demonstrate the best way to preserve and cook your crop by
bottling, drying, jamming and smoking it. He uses his intimate and
comprehensive knowledge of each crop to advise you on how best to
treat it and store it. Try making fruit leathers, which are great
for kids; freeze your own apple juice so you can have it every day
of the year; experiment with making liqueurs and wines; preserve
nuts in chocolate, and many, many more ingenious ideas.
Today's gardeners want a bit of everything--vegetables, fruit,
medicinal herbs, flowers for pollinators, and even chickens for
eggs. The dream is to build a diverse landscape that serves
multiple functions, but achieving that goal can be intimidating and
overwhelming. Homesteader Leah M. Webb shares her strategy for
implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and
gradually adding more features each year. The Seven-Step Homestead
takes readers through the process with a series of doable steps,
beginning with establishing one or two raised beds of the easiest
vegetables to grow, and gradually building up to the addition of
fruit trees and berry bushes on hugelkulture mounds, a coop full of
chickens, and a winter's worth of storage crops. Step-by-step
photos from the author's own homestead, accompanied by her
hard-earned advice and instruction, make this a one-of-a-kind guide
for anyone who aspires to grow more of their own food.
'Brilliant ... Equal parts irreverent, cheeky and vitally important
... Charming ... Much too valuable to tuck away until the zombies
come ... A gardening manual that you can put to use immediately,
regardless of your situation' Zombie Research Society. Climate
change? Brexit? Screaming brain-biters? Don't lose the plot, this
book can help! Irreverent, straightforward and useful, it shows
even complete beginners how to grow enough of their own food to
survive when Armageddon arrives and imports collapse. Or even if
they don't. A grow-your-own guide for the generation who'd rather
eat compost than watch Gardeners' World, it tells you how to sow
and grow 20 key crops, whether you have two pots, a patio or a
whole allotment to play with. It takes you through what seeds,
tools and other kit you'll need, teaches you how to plan and plant
your site for maximum nutrition, and suggests gardening projects to
get underway while civilization still stands, from growing dinner
in a dustbin to a juice bar on a balcony. All while sticking a
garden fork in the eye of the undead. Gardening for the Zombie
Apocalypse: surviving has never been so much fun.
This fun-filled adventure handbook is bursting with ideas to help
kids discover the great outdoors and get closer to nature. Created
with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), the UK's leading
gardening charity. This beautifully illustrated book is packed fun
activities, handy tips and nature facts to encourage children to
explore the wonderful world around them. Make a wilderness compass
Grow your own herb garden Build a tepee Learn how to read a map
Discover more about plants, trees and wildlife Each page is filled
with inspiring ideas for discovering and exploring plants and
wildlife, with exciting activities for all weathers.
The interest in organic fruit and vegetables has never been
greater. As people grow ever more suspicious of the chemicals used
in food production, more and more gardeners are keen to grow their
own vegetables and fruit while steering away from synthetic
insecticides and pesticides. In this book John Fedor draws on both
his training as a biochemist and his extensive gardening experience
to explain exactly why and how to garden organically. He includes
ground plans for gardens of all sizes, all the information you need
on organic techniques such as soil care and composting, and an
extensive illustrated directory of fruit and vegetables, with
cultural information and recommended varieties. This is a book for
beginners and experienced gardeners alike and set to become the
standard reference manual on organic gardening.
Press your own right at home - homemade oils for cooking and
health. The Complete Guide to Seed and Nut Oils is a comprehensive,
beautifully illustrated and photographed, full-color guide to
growing, foraging, and pressing nut and seed crops to produce
high-quality oils for culinary and other uses. Coverage includes: A
brief history of seed oil extraction Culinary and health benefits
of home-pressed oils versus factory produced oils Presses and other
equipment options for ease, cost, and convenience How-to for
growing, harvesting, processing, and pressing nuts and seeds
Profiles of over 40 nuts and seeds to grow, forage, or source
including hempseed, flax, peanuts, sunflowers, walnuts, okra, and
more. Oil processing, storage, and culinary and other uses Scaling
up for community or small-scale commercial production. Whether you
want to produce oils for cooking, balms and salves,
self-sufficiency and resiliency or for small-scale commercial or
community production, The Complete Guide to Seed and Nut Oils is a
one-stop shop to get you started.
Using seasonal checklists and Charles Dowding's expert no-dig
advice, this month-by-month journal helps you plan bumper harvests
the no-dig way. From tomatoes to basil, carrots to coriander,
Charles Dowding, the UK's leading no-dig guru shows you how to grow
a year's worth of healthy, organic crops while preserving the
soil's integrity in this complete and comprehensive guide. Follow
simple steps to find success, growing more than 35 vegetables and
herbs in a range of easy and accessible projects suited to all
kinds of spaces and environments. Start a no-dig vegetable plot on
virgin or dug ground, improve the soil and become an expert mulcher
and weeder, as well as learning the techniques for intercropping,
companion planting, seed viability and crop succession. This
easy-to-follow step-by-step guide by one of Britain's top gardeners
is illustrated with photos to help you learn how to plan a
vegetable garden, construct a raised bed, sow seed indoors and
outdoors in spring, grow on young crops, protect plants from the
weather and pests through the season and, finally, celebrate the
joy of harvesting. Organised monthly from January to December, this
journal is full of key dates for sowing, staking, harvesting and
storing, as well as time-saving monthly checklists to help ensure a
successful no-dig harvest.
A Produce Reference Guide to Fruits and Vegetables from Around the
World: Nature?s Harvest answers the many questions consumers have
about various fruits and vegetables. Providing basic, clear, and
understandable information for each produce item, this reference
guide gives you a synopsis of the fruit or vegetable, a short
history of the item, the common and uncommon name, what it looks
and tastes like, how it is used, and the time of year it is
available. Information on nutrition, serving sizes, yields, and
optimal storage conditions is also provided. From potatoes to
shepherd?s purse and from grapes to the Clementine tangor, A
Produce Reference Guide to Fruits and Vegetables from Around the
World covers both the familiar and the exotic. Other than the
obvious fruits and vegetables (such as 12 varieties of cherries and
10 different kinds of squash) you?ll also read about herbs,
mushrooms, sprouts, and nuts. A Produce Reference Guide to Fruits
and Vegetables from Around the World is packed with useful
information. From practical advice to interesting trivia, some of
the things you?ll learn include: You should not eat any green parts
of potatoes--it will make you sick. How to classify a
peach--clingstone vs. freestone and white vs. yellow. The Texas
1015 Supersweet onion is named after its recommended planting date,
October 15. Kiwis (originally from China, not Australia) contain an
enzyme that tenderizes meat. Women in China once made a dye from
the skin of eggplants to stain their teeth black. The famous mutiny
by Captain Bligh?s crew was caused by breadfruit. Gourds may have
spread between continents by floating in the ocean, as they can
float in sea water for 220 days without losing seed viability. The
two nuts mentioned in the Bible--almonds and pistachios.As new
methods in farming, storing, and shipping are allowing exotic
fruits and vegetables unheard of a few years ago to becom
With over 300 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the
fruit garden, Tender: Volume II - A cook's guide to the fruit
garden is the definitive guide to cooking with fruit from the
presenter of BBC One's Simple Cooking. 'When I dug up my lawn to
grow my own vegetables and herbs I planted fruit too. A handful of
small trees - plum, apple and pear - some raspberry, blackberry and
currant bushes and even strawberries in pots suddenly joined my
patch of potatoes, beans and peas. These fruits became the backbone
of my home baking, the stars in my cakes and pastries and even
inspired the odd pot of jam. More than this, I started to use them
in new ways too, from a weekday supper of pork chops with cider and
apples to a Chinese Sunday roast with spiced plum sauce. The hot
family puddings and fruit ices we had always loved so much suddenly
took on a delicious new significance.' With over 300 recipe ideas
and many wonderful stories from the fruit garden, Tender: Volume II
- A cook's guide to the fruit garden is the definitive guide to
cooking with fruit from the presenter of BBC One's Simple Cooking.
"Grow Now is an earth manual that applies to everyone, everywhere.
Regenerating life begins with our hands, the soil, and our heart.
Take this book and go outside, stay outside, and transform." --Paul
Hawken, author of Drawdown and Regeneration Did you know you can
have a garden that's equal parts food source and wildlife haven? In
Grow Now, Emily Murphy shares easy-to-follow principles for
regenerative gardening that foster biodiversity and improve soil
health. She also shows how every single yard mirrors and connects
to the greater ecosystem around us. No-dig growing, composting and
mulching smartly, and planting a variety of edible perennials that
attract bees and butterflies are all commonsense techniques
everyone can use to grow positive change. You'll also find detailed
advice on increasing your nature quotient, choosing plants that
cycle more carbon back into the soil, selecting a broader variety
of vegetables and fruits to improve overall soil fertility,
rethinking space devoted to lawns, and adding companion plants for
pollinators to rewild any plot of land. Exquisitely photographed
and filled with helpful lists and sidebars, Grow Now is an
actionable, hopeful, and joyful roadmap for growing our way to
individual climate contributions. Gardening is climate activism!
A one-stop treasure trove from the experts at RHS that covers every
aspect of gardening! Dreaming of having the perfect garden? Does it
have a vegetable patch? Classic borders or flowers to attract
wildlife? A picturesque garden for all to marvel at is achievable
with this gardening guide giving you the vital tools to achieve
whatever you desire for your dream garden. Delve into this concise
and practical guide to find all the gardening ideas and advice you
need to create a spectacular, thriving garden. Here's what you'll
find inside: - A comprehensive guide covering everything from
growing in containers to planting a garden from scratch - Fully
illustrated with detailed step-by-steps and inspirational gardening
ideas - Detailed beginner's guide to garden design, including
step-by-step instructions for simple hard landscaping such as
building a raised bed, creating a pond, or laying a patio - Covers
all aspects of planting styles, including "recipes" to make the
most of different types of plants - Easy-to-follow guides on how to
water, feed, prune and propagate your garden - Advice on
problem-solving and controlling weeds and pests - A chapter full of
Plant Chooser galleries to help you grow the right plant in the
right place at the right time Learn how to plan, sow, plant, and
protect your garden throughout the year with expert tips and
techniques that will see your garden flourish. Discover how to
design with plants by using colour and texture to create
inspirational displays, and keep them at their best with
jargon-free guides to pruning and preventing pests and diseases.
Undertake a new endeavour of DIY landscaping projects, which
include laying your own patio or lawn, or building a raised bed
ready for you to grow your own fruit and vegetables. Choose from a
catalogue of hundreds of different ornamental plants to find
varieties that will thrive in your garden's climate and provide
seasonal interest throughout the year. The Complete Gardener's
Manual is the perfect all-around practical book for gardening
beginners, also for those looking for a step up from a beginners'
gardening book.
Work in partnership with nature to nurture your soil for healthy
plants and bumper crops - without back-breaking effort! Have you
ever wondered how to transform a weedy plot into a thriving
vegetable garden? Well now you can! By following the simple steps
set out in No Dig, in just a few short hours you can revolutionise
your vegetable patch with plants already in the ground from day
one! Charles Dowding is on a mission to teach that there is no need
to dig over the soil, but by minimising intervention you are
actively boosting soil productivity. In fact, The less you dig, the
more you preserve soil structure and nurture the fungal mycelium
vital to the health of all plants. This is the essence of the No
Dig system that Charles Dowding has perfected over a lifetime
growing vegetables. So put your gardening gloves on and get ready
to discover: - Guides and calendars of when to sow, grow, and
harvest. - Inspiring information and first-hand guidance from the
author - "Delve deeper" features look in-depth at the No Dig system
and the facts and research that back it up. - The essential role of
compost and how to make your own at home. - The importance of soil
management, soil ecology, and soil health. Now one of the hottest
topics in environmental science, this "wood-wide web" has informed
Charles's practice for decades, and he's proven it isn't just trees
that benefit - every gardener can harness the power of the
wood-wide web. Featuring newly- commissioned step-by-step
photography of all stages of growing vegetables and herbs, and all
elements of No Dig growing, shot at Charles's beautiful market
garden in Somerset, you too will be able to grow more veg with less
time and effort, and in harmony with nature - so join the No Dig
revolution today! A must-have volume for followers of Charles
Dowding who fervently believe in his approach to low input, high
yield gardening, as well as gardeners who want to garden more
lightly on the earth, with environmentally friendly techniques like
organic and No Dig.
In 1940 Doreen Wallace, prolific novelist, academic, social
campaigner and farmer, wrote a book for Batsford on vegetable
growing, as part of the publisher's iconic Home Front Handbook
series. With its chatty, readable writing style and its beautiful
Brian Cook cover, the book became a wartime classic, invaluable for
everyone growing fruit and vegetables at home to help the war
effort.This reissue of that important book retains all the appeal
of the original. As well as being a great read, it contains a
wealth of information that is still useful for vegetable gardeners
today. It tells you what fruit and vegetables to grow and when, how
and why, how to keep down weeds and pests, explores 'The Vexed
Question of Small Fruit', gives tips on arrangement and rotation of
crops, and even touches on the subject of keeping hens and pigs in
your garden. Full of sensible practical advice mixed with whimsical
musings and a great deal of charm, this book would make a perfect
gift for any gardener.
Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow. Whereas traditional
vegetable plots are largely made up of short-lived, annual
vegetable plants, perennials are edible plants that live longer
than three years. Grown as permaculture plants, they take up less
of your time and effort than annual vegetables do. Martin
Crawford's book outlines the benefits of growing perennial
vegetables: Perennials provide crops throughout the year, so
there's always something that can be used in the kitchen. You avoid
the hungry gap between the end of the winter harvest and the start
of the summer harvest of annual vegetables. Perennial vegetables
are less work. Once planted, they stay in the ground for many
years. They are the classic plants for no-dig gardeners. Unlike
annual vegetables, perennial vegetables cover and protect the soil
all year round. This maintains the structure of the soil and helps
everything growing in it. Humous levels build up and nutrients
don't wash out of soil. (Cultivating the soil for annuals exposes
this humous to air on the surface, causing the carbon to be
released as carbon dioxide.) Mycorrhizal fungi, critical for
storing carbon within the soil, are preserved. (They are killed
when soil is constantly dug for annual vegetables.) Perennial
plants contain higher levels of mineral nutrients than annuals
because perennial vegetables have larger, permanent root systems,
capable of using space more efficiently, and they take up more
nutrients. How to grow perennial vegetables gives comprehensive
advice on all types of perennial vegetable, from ground-cover
plants and coppiced trees to plants for bog gardens and edible
woodland plants: In Part One Martin Crawford outlines why we should
grow perennials. He then explains where and how to grow them in
perennial polycultures, in forest garden or aquatic garden
settings. He outlines how to propagate them, how to look after them
for maximum health and how to harvest them. Part Two is a
plant-by-plant reference of over 100 perennial edibles in detail,
from familiar ones like rhubarb, Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes),
horseradish and asparagus to less common ones such as skirret,
nodding onions, red chicory, Babbington's leek, scorzonera, sea
kale and wild rocket. With beautiful colour photographs and
illustrations and plenty of cooking tips throughout, this book
offers inspiration and information for all gardeners, whether
experienced or beginner.
The perfect season-led book to help you grow the best organic
vegetables, fruit and herbs in a small urban space Many of us are
trying to be more mindful in our approach to eating by choosing
seasonal ingredients, and growing our own fruit and vegetables can
benefit our health, the environment and even our wallet. Written
over a year, City Veg is the candid account of an urban grower from
her productive city plot - the size of two classic 1970s VW camper
vans - with all the triumphs and minor woes that come with a small,
suburban location. From planning and designing the garden in
January to harvesting and using home-grown produce throughout the
growing season, Cinead McTernan takes you on a personal journey
that will entertain experienced growers and share plenty of
practical information with newbie gardeners. With helpful growing
advice, harvesting guides, tips and inspiration for garden
projects, City Veg also includes quick and easy recipe ideas to
help make the most of your bountiful yield.
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