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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Fruit & vegetables
This book is aimed at the majority of us who live in terraced
houses, high rise flats, town houses and semi-detached properties
with a small garden and often nowhere to grow but the patio. It
shows how to make the most of pots and planters; how to plan for a
reasonable yield; and how never to run out of at least something to
special eat. You might not have all the space in the world, but you
can enjoy all the flavour in the world. With the step-by-step
instructions in this book you will be able to grow, nurture and
harvest your own fruit, vegetables and herbs in a range of pots and
containers, including recycled ones such as plastic milk bottles,
and kitchen sinks.
Written by RHS experts with more than 50 years of combined growing
experience, RHS Grow Your Own Veg & Fruit Year Planner provides
the life-changing advice that gardeners need to grow a year-round
supply of healthy fruit and vegetables for their table. The book
starts with planning what to grow and where to grow it, whether
that's an allotment, a series of containers, raised bed or veg
patch, then how to get the best from your soil, and how to get
started. Next, in season-by-season chapters, the book takes the
reader from sowing to harvesting with simple, clear instructions
that will help them stay on top of the challenges and joys of a
productive garden. From apples to asparagus, raspberries to
radishes, this book will show how to apply age-old techniques to
get the most from your plot.
Gardening for Everyone is a sustainable guide to growing vegetables
in five simple steps: planning, building, planting, tending and
harvesting. With the same wisdom and stunning aesthetic as Simply
Living Well, Julia's beautiful new book is a guide to creating and
growing a garden simply and sustainably with profiles of essential
vegetables and herbs, ecological tips, and fun and creative
projects. Growing food in your backyard (or even on a porch or
windowsill!) is one of the simplest and most rewarding ways to
nourish yourself, be self-sufficient and connect with nature in a
hands-on way. Here sustainability expert Julia Watkins shares
everything you need to know to grow your own vegetables, fruits and
herbs, as well as wildflowers and other beneficial companion
plants. The book covers all the nuts and bolts of creating and
caring for your garden - planning, building, planting, tending and
harvesting - followed by a deeper dive into the plants themselves:
demystifying annuals vs. perennials, cold-weather vs. warm-weather
veggies, and profiles of favorite crops. Throughout, Julia offers
tips for creating an eco-friendly and sustainable garden (such as
vermicomposting, no-till 'lasagna' gardening, and attracting
pollinators), plus some fun and unexpected hands-on projects like
how to build a bean teepee, make wildflower seed paper, and enjoy
refreshing herbal lemonade ice pops.
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.
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