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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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James Frederick Timothy Arbury; Illustrated by Sally Pinhey
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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.
A beginners' guide to growing wild food in pots, making foraging easy.
The Flowerpot Forager details 30 wild edible plants that can be grown at home in containers with as much effort as you'd put into your tending your herb pot from the supermarket, plus a very simple recipe or two on how to use them—think pink clover lemonade, water mint pesto and dandelion salad. Foraging is a perennially aspirational hobby for gardeners and cooks alike, but it's now entering the mainstream; from supermarkets stocking wild garlic to Fever Tree spiking their tonics with elderflower, wild food is everywhere.
Historically, location has hampered the accessibility of foraging—if you don't live near a wood, riverbed or meadow, it can be difficult to find those lusted-after ingredients in cookbooks and on TV shows. But The Flowerpot Forager is here to solve that.
Known as the guru of no-dig, Charles Dowding has updated his
definitive book on salad-growing in this beautifully illustrated
new edition: how to have tasty salad leaves all year round in a
garden, balcony or windowsill; how to grow micro leaves and how to
serve them in delicious recipes, all using organic or permaculture
principles. Great for food lovers keen to eat tasty food with a low
carbon footprint. This compendium of practical methods for growing
a wide variety of salads throughout the year, will inspire you to
grow your own, whether on a windowsill, in your garden or on the
allotment. Here is all the information you need for productive,
healthy and tasty salads. Learn the subtleties of salad seasons and
virtues of different leaves throughout the year. And when your
table is groaning with the abundance of your harvests, there are
delicious and imaginative recipes by Stephanie Hafferty, exploiting
the fantastic flavours, colour and vitality of home grown salad
leaves.
Charles Dowding draws on his years of experience, to show how easy
it is to start a new vegetable garden. Any plot - whether a
building site, overgrown with weeds or unwanted lawn - can be
turned into a beautiful and productive vegetable area. Charles's
no-nonsense and straightforward advice is the perfect starting
point for the beginner or experienced gardener. The book takes you
step-by-step through: * Planning and early stages * Clearing the
ground * Mulch - what, why, how? * Minimizing digging * Sowing and
planting across the seasons * Growing in polytunnels and
greenhouses It is filled with labour-saving ideas and the
techniques that Charles uses to garden so successfully and is
illustrated throughout with photos and tales from Charles's first
year in his new vegetable garden.
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.
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