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Books > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Fruit & vegetables
Do you love living in the city but dream about growing your own wholesome fruit and vegetables? South Africa’s organic gardening guru, Jane Griffiths, shows you just how easy it is to achieve a flourishing food garden, no matter how small your space.
Jane’s Delicious Urban Gardening is packed with inspirational ideas and practical information on all aspects of urban eco living.
In her trademark sensible and easy-to-follow style, Jane provides a wealth of tips and suggestions for:
- growing organic vegetables just about anywhere – from containers to edible walls, from raised beds to rooftops, from community gardens to neglected pavements
- planting and maintaining a space-efficient urban orchard
- converting an existing lawn or tennis court into an instant edible oasis
- keeping urban bees, hens and aquaponic tanks
- harvesting rainwater and recycling grey water
- introducing solar power into your home
- converting a chlorinated swimming pool into a wetland-filtered haven.
Illustrated with hundreds of beautiful colour photographs, Jane’s Delicious Urban Gardening is essential reading for anyone wanting to live a more sustainable, productive and healthy lifestyle in the city.
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Pears
(Hardcover)
James Frederick Timothy Arbury; Illustrated by Sally Pinhey
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R54
Discovery Miles 540
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The second book by this author. The first was a true life,
historical story of a families tragedies and triumphs. This is a
romp through Rural England, a land of allotmenteers and would be
naughty councillors. Of good triumphing over not so good.
Grow your own citrus and subtropical fruit with help from Meredith
Book's "All About Citrus and Subtropical Fruit." From detailed
descriptions of over 70 varieties of citrus and 275 varieties of
subtropical fruits, you are bound to find the best type for your
garden. And don't forget the easy-to-follow care instructions that
will ensure a bountiful harvest.
The book entitled "Modern Vegetable Varieties and Production
Technology" is compilation of almost all the varieties developed
from various SAUs, research centres and private seed companies,
their characteristic features and the production technology
involved in raising the vegetable crops. The book also contains few
introductory chapters regarding the different vegetables grown in
India, their area and production, nutritional aspect of vegetables
and research done in the field of vegetable till date. The book
consist of three introductory chapters viz., (1) vegetable crops,
(2) nutritional importance of vegetable and (3) vegetable research
in India -a brief background the other part of the book consists of
nine chapters viz., (1) solanaceous vegetables (2) okra, (3) cole
crops (4) cucurbitaceous vegetables (5) peas and beans (6) bulb
crops (7) root crops (8) leafy vegetables and (9) asparagus (10)
Hi-Tech vegetable production technology. Each of these chapters
includes the vegetable varieties and production technology of
respective crops. This would be helpful to the teachers,
scientists, students, extension workers and farmers of this country
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