The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Vegetables, Volume 7 - The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Vegetables (Hardcover)

This guide from the experts of Kew Royal Botanical Gardens is filled with tips and advice to help you grow your best vegetable garden ever! In this book Kew's Kitchen Gardener, Helena Dove, combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty to make a comprehensive and informative guide with all you need to know to master theart of growing vegetables. She shows how to grow some of the most popular staple crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, radishes and rocket, and also some more unusual and exciting choices such as oca, tomatillo, seakale and yacon. She gives easy to follow instructions on how to be a successful vegetable gardener, plus 12 exciting projects to try throughout the year including forcing rhubarb, creating an asparagus border and growing in raised beds. From sowing, to planting young plants, to hardening off and harvesting, find out what you need to do and when, to produce the most magnificent harvests. All the advice is underpinned by the expertise and authority of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and illustrated from Kew's world-famous botanical collection. With this book, you wil be able to reap a rich bounty of delicious vegetables from just a few packets of seed and some fertile ground! This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing Herbs and Guide to Growing House Plants.

General

Imprint:	Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Kew Experts
Release date:	March 2020
Authors:	Helena Dove • Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Dimensions:	210 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-0-7112-4278-4
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Fruit & vegetables Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Specialized gardening methods > Container gardening Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Plant life: general > General Books > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Fruit & vegetables Books > Gardening > Specialized gardening methods > Container gardening
LSN:	0-7112-4278-X
Barcode:	9780711242784

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Sun, 29 Mar 2020 | Review by: Kelly H.

This is a wonderful addition to the Kew Gardener’s series. This one focuses on growing vegetables, and oh my word, did I learn so much! I understand now why my carrots were stunted, my oregano died and my potatoes grew. If you’ve been confused by why you followed the simple instructions on the side of a seed packet or the plant pot from the gardening shop and your veggies didn’t thrive, this is for you! Each vegetable gets it’s own page explaining the kind of vegetable, where to grow it, how to grow it and other interesting elements about it. It’s detailed, clear and insightful. Additionally, there are several practical how-to pages for home vegetable growing projects. It also includes general vegetable growing information such as crop rotations and what to plant when. I’ve not been able to put into action much of what I’ve learnt yet but I look forward to, if you are trying to grow your own veggies, this is one to read! It’s a five out of five on the enJOYment scale and highly recommended!

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