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Books > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Fruit & vegetables
This is a guide to planning a kitchen garden and cultivating a wide
range of fruits, vegetables and herbs, from sowing and planting
through to harvesting and storage. It also describes the different
cultivation needs of various crops, including the training and
pruning of fruit trees, and routine husbandry, such as weeding,
feeding, mulching and the prevention and control of pests and
diseases.
Dig into eco-gardening and cultivate your green thumb. Discover how
to care for the planet while you care for your garden. This is your
no-fuss guide to planet-friendly gardening. Do you want a beautiful
and productive garden that won't cost the earth but don't know
where to start? This wildlife gardening book for beginners will
introduce you to all aspects of sustainable gardening. It includes
a wide selection of recommended plants including trees, climbers,
and wildflowers, to help encourage local biodiversity in your
garden. Whether you're growing in pots on your patio or have a
fully-fledged garden, this organic gardening book explores
everything you need to know to create your own eco-garden. Discover
how to minimise garden waste and make soil-building compost. Learn
how to do your bit to reduce your carbon footprint and make a
positive contribution to slowing down climate change. You don't
have to be a horticulture expert to get started, this indispensable
reference book will take you through every single step! It
includes: - Tips on how to turn your outdoor space into a refuge
for local wildlife - Packed with practical, jargon-free know-how
and simple gardening techniques - Easy-to-follow format to help
grow your gardening knowledge Let It Grow! Gorgeous, full-colour
photography provides plenty of inspiration and
environmentally-friendly ideas. Expert tips and step-by-step
instructions on every page guide you on how to be more sustainable
and why it's important. Grow Eco Gardening covers everything you
need to work in harmony with nature. It's the perfect book for
beginner gardeners who want to do their bit for the climate.
Complete the Series: Make your green-fingered dreams a reality with
the Grow series from DK. Learn how to brighten up even the
trickiest areas in Grow Containers, or discover how to prune your
garden in Grow Pruning & Training. Alternatively, there are
more titles to explore such as Grow Easy Veg and Grow Houseplants.
From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley
Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it. The book is a
favourite not only for its assemblage of garlic and farming lore
but for what it tells us about how to live a satisfying life. This
beloved book, first published in 1992, is now available only from
the University of New Mexico Press.
The best of Dick Raymond's vegetable gardening wisdom--his
proven methods for raised beds, wide rows, and other simple
techniques that promise a bigger harvest with much less work--is
here in one comprehensive guide. Raymond covers everything from
preparing the soil to starting plants, stopping weeds, caring for
your garden through the season, and even storing your bounty in a
root cellar.
There's no denying that growing your own food is good for the
pocket, good for the environment and hugely rewarding for the soul.
In The Edible Garden, Gardeners' World's Alys Fowler will take you
one step closer to self-sufficiency by showing how to grow edible
crops and flowers in any garden - even a small suburban back
garden! 'Quirky is the word that springs to mind when leafing
through this book ... it is for anyone who has dreamt of the Good
Life but despaired at their lack of land' -- Countryfile Magazine
'A handsome book' -- The Times 'An indispensable go-to gardening
book' -- ***** Reader review 'I absolutely love this book and it's
just my sort of gardening' -- ***** Reader review 'Beautiful and
inspiring' -- ***** Reader review 'The best gardening book I have
ever read - so useful for a beginner!' -- ***** Reader review
'Inspirational' -- ***** Reader review
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In this timely book, Gardeners' World's thrifty and resourceful
Alys Fowler shows that there is a way to take the good life and
re-fashion it to fit in with modern day living. Abandoning the
limitations of traditional gardening methods, she has created a
beautifully productive garden where tomatoes sit happily next to
roses, carrots are woven between the lavenders and potatoes grow in
pots on the patio. And all of this is produced in a way that mimics
natural systems, producing delicious homegrown food for her table.
And she shares her favourite recipes for the hearty dishes, pickles
and jams she makes to use up her bountiful harvest, proving that
no-one need go hungry on her grow-your-own regime. With beautiful,
specially commissioned full colour photography, step-by-step
recipes, directories of crops and flowers to grow and accessible,
practical advice, The Edible Garden will encourage everyone to
chuck out the old gardening rules and create their own haven that's
as good to look at as it is to eat!
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.
Now that you've mastered gardening basics, you want to enjoy your
bounty year-round, right? Homegrown Pantry picks up where beginning
gardening books leave off, with in-depth profiles of the 55 most
popular crops including beans, beets, squash, tomatoes, and much
more -- to keep your pantry stocked throughout the year. In-depth
profiles highlight how many plants to grow of each crop for a
year's worth of eating, and which storage methods work best for
specific varieties. Author Barbara Pleasant culls tips from decades
of her own gardening experience and from growers across North
America to offer planting, care, and harvesting refreshers for
every region and each vegetable.
This is a practical directory of garden produce with over 250
photographs. It is a comprehensive guide to vegetables, fruit and
herbs, with advice on how to grow them in a healthy and
chemical-free environment. It offers practical introduction
illustrates the basic gardening materials and techniques you will
need for successful organic gardening, helping you to grow
beautiful and tasty produce for your kitchen. It offers guidance
for choosing reliable varieties of vegetables and fruit, combined
with tips on cultivation, after-care, harvesting and storing, as
well as dealing with any common pests and diseases you may
encounter. It is lavishly illustrated with over 250 inspirational
and practical photographs, including step-by-step sequences
demonstrating gardening techniques, luscious vegetable and fruit
photographs, and over 25 hand-painted artworks. Creating and
maintaining a working garden that is both safe and natural is
becoming an increasingly common ambition among gardeners. This
helpful guide contains directories of vegetables, fruit and herbs,
each providing information on recommended varieties, their
cultivation requirements, sowing, planting, harvesting and storage
needs. From apple trees to rhubarb, a wide range of plants are
covered. With its stunning photographs and a superbly well-informed
text by award-winning authors, the book is the perfect guide for
first-time growers and experienced gardeners wishing to transform
their garden into a healthy, organic plot bursting with goodness.
The sweet potato is at present grown in more than 100 of the
independent countries of the world. Most of the producer nations
are situated in the tropical developing world where a high
proportion of the poorest people live. Increasing recognition of
the potential which sweet potato holds for combating food shortages
and malnutrition has resulted in intensified research efforts to
enhance production and consumption. This book reviews our knowledge
about the varied aspects of the sweet potato as a human food and
animal feedstuff. This volume will be found practical and
informative by all those involved in food and nutrition sciences,
especially but not exclusively in developing countries. These
include research workers in food or agriculture, dieticians,
nutritionists, food technologists, students, planners and policy
makers.
Most gardeners think that when the first frost hits, the vegetable
gardening season is over -- but that's all about to change! In "The
Year-Round Vegetable Gardener," Nova Scotia-based gardener and
writer Niki Jabbour shares her secrets for growing food during
every month of the year. Her season-defying techniques, developed
in her own home garden where short summers and low levels of winter
sunlight create the ultimate challenge, are doable, affordable, and
rewarding for gardeners in any location where frost has
traditionally ended the growing season.Jabbour explains how to make
every month a vegetable-gardening month. She provides in-depth
instruction for all of her time-tested techniques, including
selecting the best varieties for each season, mastering the art of
succession planting, and maximizing the use of space throughout the
year to increase production. She also offers complete instructions
for making affordable protective structures that keep vegetables
viable and delicious throughout the colder months. What could be
more amazing than harvesting fresh greens in February? Jabbour's
proven, accessible methods make this dream possible for food
gardeners everywhere.
Whether your idea of gardening is a tomato plant on your fire
escape or a pumpkin patch in the garden, Homegrown is the ultimate
guide to growing your own food and eating it, too! With clear and
uncomplicated illustrations, author Heather Hardison guides readers
through the process of planting, growing, harvesting,and preparing
more than 25 of the tastiest, easy-to-grow vegetables and small
fruits-such as spinach, kale, artichokes and pears-and cooking them
into seasonal, clean and delicious offerings-including Fava Bean
Crostini, Tomato and Watermelon Gazpacho, and Parsnip Hummus. Using
Homegrown's tips for stocking your own unprocessed pantry, growing
your own herbs and pickling and canning the last of your bounty,
anyone can learn to eat from the ground up. Part cookbook, part
gardening guide, Homegrown is the perfect excuse to start a small
container garden, cook a few seasonal dishes and see where it takes
you!
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