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Veg Street: Growing Dinner on Your Doorstep
£10.00£16.10 (-38%)
You don’t need a country garden or an allotment to grow good fruit and veg… This book celebrates the fact that anyone can ‘grow your own’ and that through veg growing you can meet your neighbours and grow your own community too.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Short Books Ltd (7 Mar. 2013) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 224 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1780721129 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1780721125 |
| Dimensions | 19 x 1.8 x 24.4 cm |
by Sybil
The warmest,most inspiring guide to greening your space and your street, whilst sharing the experience with neighbours and new friends.
by Clare
I bought this as I work on some projects that involve planting and growing.
It is a good, well illustrated book with some really good ideas to inspire communities to grow their own and make the most of open spaces of all sizes.
by Richard Nealon
Not only is this book packed with interesting tips, but its beautifully photographed and designed. There are endless gems of advice and I’ll certainly be sending this as a present to all my green fingered friends. Highly recommended.
by VK
A beautiful book with beautiful pictures!
An inspiring example of community spirit!
Great tips on how to grow veg and herbs in
a small city garden.
by Rob
This book has missed a golden opportunity, growing in containers is a brilliant way of gardening but the information and pictures contained in this book was either irrelevant or misleading. I realise that the book was not intended to give any indepth knowledge but what it did give was not inspiring. It is at best an expensive coffee table book. The author has apparently been listening to the ideas of other gardeners and this has just succeded in propagating gardening myths, carrot fly can fly over two feet. I cannot list all the mis- information in this book but Sarah Raven apparently endorsed this book which begs the question did she actually read it
by cdc
Really enjoyed this book. Great, inspiring pics and info. Enjoyed the community aspect, and think this is a great book for all veg street growers, young or old, experienced or not. Will get anyone growing carrots on their windowsill, or squash in suitcases! Perfect for urban gardeners.
by Heron
Have really enjoyed the spirit behind the idea for this project. I live in a street which has mostly second homes in it, so would be quite hard to set up here; however I am sort of doing it in reverse…..I only have a courtyard garden, but ” borrow” two ends of gardens which their elderly owners can no longer manage….I give them vegetables in return….all about sharing land and food AND TALKING TO ONE ANOTHER!! We should run the world like this……
by Drisheeen
Packed with brilliant photographs and helpful advice, ‘Veg Street’ is an inspirational story about how one part of London has been creating streets of convivial, cake-eating, seed-sharing gardening enthusiasts. With its tales of building neighbourliness through planting interesting containers, taking over tree pits and growing mouthwatering produce in urban front gardens, Naomi Schillinger’s book is a reassuring and helpful read for the enthusiatic urban gardener, and for those who are simply thinking about growing veg for the first time. With month by month guidance to getting started and getting on, ‘Veg Street’ is more about encouraging having a go than a blow by blow blueprint. The book is jam-packed with ideas. Reading it has reinvigorated my own interest in getting out and planting. Highly recommended.