Gardening
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The Self-Sufficiency Garden: Feed Your Family and Save Money
Eat homegrown food all year round and save money on your weekly shop by following a simple plan for self-sufficiency.
Huw Richards and Sam Cooper have spent the past two years planning and trialing their self-sufficiency garden in a 10x13m plot, and now they’ve worked out the perfect formula. Grow six portions of nutritious veg a day per person following their month-by-month growing plan, which is realistic and flexible with cost, space, and time in mind. Follow this carefully curated year-round growing plan to yield six portions of veg per person per day, plus batching and preserving recipes!
Whether you are looking for cost-effective ways to put food on the table and feed your family, a fan of Huw’s YouTube videos and would like to try out the recipes for yourself or a gardener who would like some guidance on how to grow your own food, this book will be great for you.
With this gardening book, you will be able to:
-Learn about Huw’s self-sufficiency ethos, goals and approaches to growing food
-Create your garden and learn how to build all the growing spaces you will need, such as hotbeds and polytunnels
-Follow month-by-month planting plans with guidance on key tasks throughout the year and different seasons
-Perfect your growing skills with sowing, weeding, watering and composting.
-Discover useful kitchen tips for meal prep, storage, and preserving ideas along with base recipes so you can make the most of your crops.
-Find recipes for delicious dishes including soup, curry, tray bakes and salads + dressingsFollow Huw Richards and Sam Cooper’s tried-and-tested methods and save money while enjoying homegrown food all year. If you are interested in learning more or want more books by Huw Richards, check out these titles: Veg in One Bed, Grow Food For Free, and The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook.
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Cactus For Dummies: How to Grow and Care for Cacti: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond
Looking to cultivate the perfect cactus garden but not sure where to start? Look no further than “Cactus For Dummies” by Olivia Clarke. This comprehensive guide offers everything you need to know about growing and caring for cacti, from selecting the right species for your climate to providing the perfect amount of water, light, and nutrients.
With easy-to-follow instructions, “Cactus For Dummies” is the ultimate resource for both beginners and seasoned gardeners. Learn how to identify different types of cacti, propagate new plants, and even create beautiful arrangements using these hardy desert plants.
Author Olivia Clarke is a seasoned horticulturist with over 20 years of experience in growing and caring for cacti. Her passion for these unique plants shines through in every page of “Cactus For Dummies,” making this book a must-have for anyone looking to add a touch of the desert to their garden.
So whether you’re a novice gardener or a seasoned pro, “Cactus For Dummies” is the only guide you need to cultivate a thriving cactus garden. Get your copy today and start growing!
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Allotment Gardening For Dummies
Allotment Gardening For Dummies is a lively, hands-on guide to getting the most out of your allotment. Whether you’re interested in eating fresh, saving money, getting exercise or enjoying wholesome family fun, this is the guide for you. The step-by-step advice takes you through all the stages in the process, from securing an allotment and preparing your plot, to choosing what to grow and enjoying the benefits of abundant fresh food and a sociable and healthy hobby. With over 50 handy line drawings, plus information on how to grow organic and advice on storing and cooking the food you grow, this guide really does have it all!Allotment Gardening For Dummies includes:
Part 1: Getting to Grips with Allotment Gardening
Chapter 1: What Are Allotments All About?
Chapter 2: Getting hold of an Allotment
Chapter 3: Getting StartedPart 2: Preparing for Allotment Success
Chapter 4: Deciding What to Grow, When
Chapter 5: Preparing Your Plot
Chapter 6: Keeping Your Soil Healthy
Chapter 7: Keeping Your Plants Healthy
Chapter 8: Growing OrganicPart 3: Growing a Few of Your Favourite Vegetables
Chapter 9: Going Underground
Chapter 10: The Staples
Chapter 11: Growing Leafy Greens
Chapter 12: Planting Peas, Beans and Other Pods
Chapter 13: Growing More Exotic VegPart 4: Extending Your Allotment Repetoire
Chapter 14: Growing Wholesome Herbs
Chapter 15: Growing Fruitful Fruit
Chapter 16: Nurturing Flowers on an AllotmentPart 5: Getting the Most Out of Your Allotment
Chapter 17: Involving Children Around the Allotment
Chapter 18: Hobnobbing with Allotment Society
Chapter 19: Growing Giant VegPart 6: The Part of Tens Chapter
Chapter 20: Ten Common Accidents and How to Prevent Them
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£13.20£16.10Allotment Gardening For Dummies
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Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Royal Party: Celebrate A Royal Weekend
Peppa and her friends have been invited to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee garden party, but when they get there things start going wrong! Can Peppa save the day?
This lovely new story will be a royal hit for Peppa fans of all ages, It’s a perfect storybook to share at home in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee!
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Royal Gardens of the World: 21 Celebrated Gardens from the Alhambra to Highgrove and Beyond
A sumptuous exploration of 21 of the world’s most celebrated royal gardens, from the formal splendour of Versailles to the organic, sustainable Highgrove.In mainland Europe you can journey from the formal splendour of Het Loo in the Netherlands and Fontainebleau in France to the Baroque World Heritage Site of the Royal Palace of Caserta in Southern Italy. Further afield still lies the Taj Mahal in India and the Peterhof Palace in Russia.
Each featured garden will include the history, plantings and evolution of the garden as well as plant portraits of key plants and information about the design and layout of each. Countries included are: England, Scotland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, India, Bali and Japan.
This inspiring global selection of royal gardens is a perfect gift for any gardening enthusiast or armchair traveller and takes the reader on a journey of architecturally significant houses and their classic gardens as well as providing planting ideas that range from modest to grand, simple to ornate.
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RHS How To Garden When You’re New To Gardening By The Royal Horticultural Society & RHS Gardening Through the Year By Ian Spence 2 Books Collection Set
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image Shall be Dispatched Collectively:RHS How To Garden When You’re New To Gardening By The Royal Horticultural Society & RHS Gardening Through the Year By Ian Spence 2 Books Collection Set:
RHS How To Garden When You’re New To Gardening:
ISBN-10 : 0241336651
ISBN-13 : 978-0241336656
Creating a garden that you can enjoy and keep looking beautiful all year round is easier than you think! With the expertise of the Royal Horticultural Society, you’ll find simple step-by-step instructions, with clear images to help you create your dream garden, no matter the size and scale.Get to know your garden and choose plants that will grow well in particular soil types and conditions year after year. From growing root crop to cutting back ivy, this book gives you lots of simple garden ideas and projects that you can do yourself. Even if you’ve never sowed a seed or pulled a weed, RHS How to Garden When You’re New To Gardening contains everything you need to kickstart your new outdoor hobby!RHS Gardening Through the Year:
ISBN-10 : 0241315611
ISBN-13 : 978-0241315613
This RHS book will make gardening easier by providing helpful guidelines and realistic advice, so you can plan out your time efficiently and effectively. Packed with beautiful photo galleries that showcase each month’s “Star Plant”, you’ll be inspired to have your own garden blooming throughout the year! Explore more than 350 different varieties in the A-Z illustrated plant directory. Discover top tips to guide you with clear, easy-to-follow gardening advice and illustrated step-by-step projects and gardening ideas. This fully updated edition includes brand-new visual galleries that showcase a garden throughout the year, with inspirational ideas for achieving colour schemes, your favourite scent, or striking foliage in your garden.Read more
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At the Bottom of My Garden BSL Activity Book: British Sign Language | Pre-School | EYFS | Home Learning | Minibeasts Topic (Rhyme and Sign)
Designed with little ones in mind, this lovely Activity Book has been created to complement and extend learning for our Teach Early Years award winning ‘Rhyme and Sign’ Adventure, At the Bottom of My Garden.
With an emphasis on appropriate early learning that is fun and practical, Little Signers Club award winning resources are perfect for British Sign Language beginners of all ages.
There’s lots to explore in this minibeast themed Activity Book; it supports your signing journey with activities that are enjoyable and embed learning inclusively.
- Fingerspelling: dexterity and an inclusive, lifelong, skill that can also help older children to remember and recall spellings more ably.
- Colouring: develop fine motor skills, improve co-ordination and concentration, aid colour recognition.
- Spot and Sign: matching images, signs and words to support early literacy and comprehension.
- Circle Time: supporting everyone to join in, even with little verbal confidence.
- Topical signs: helping everyone retain and recall words more easily, reinforcing learning and developing a bigger word bank.
- We’re not just… strategies that support early years communication development
Supporting the EYFS
(Early Years Foundation Stage)- Communication and Language
- Understanding the World
- Personal, Social & Emotional Development
- Physical Development
- Expressive Arts and Design
Large, fun, coloring pages for young children with familiar friends from the At The Bottom of My Garden story book.
Learn to sign and fingerspell Ant, Bee, Butterfly, Caterpillar, Frog, Fly Grasshopper, Ladybird, Slug, Snail, Spider, Worm.
Ages 2 – 6
Ideal for learning at home, all Early Years settings, pre-school, reception, key stage 1, SEND, EAL
- mini-beast theme
- BSL graphics and fingerspelling alphabet
- hand / eye co-ordination
- fine motor skills
- language + literacy foundations
- letter recognition
- attention and observation
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Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
‘Captivating. Will change the way you think about the natural world, and your place in it’ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
In Feral, George Monbiot, one of the world’s most celebrated radical thinkers offers a riveting tale of possibility and travel in the wild
How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space beyond? That our mild, polite existence sometimes seems to crush the breath out of us? Feral is the lyrical and gripping story of George Monbiot’s efforts to re-engage with nature and discover a new way of living. He shows how, by restoring and rewilding our damaged ecosystems on land and at sea, we can bring wonder back into our lives. Making use of some remarkable scientific discoveries, Feral lays out a new, positive environmentalism, in which nature is allowed to find its own way.
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The Gingerbread House in Mistletoe Gardens: The perfect festive, feel-good romance from Jaimie Admans for 2023
The perfect cosy and uplifting romance to curl up with this winter!
In Mistletoe Gardens a legend exists: anyone who kisses underneath the mistletoe will be guaranteed another year of love…
When local baker Essie Browne discovers that Mistletoe Gardens is to be demolished in January, she’s determined to save the place she loves so much. So Essie proposes building a life size gingerbread house to bring in the crowds…just how hard can it be?
Well, quite hard actually. Essie can bake gingerbread blindfolded, but she hasn’t got a clue how to build an actual house with it! She needs help – and fast!
Enter local builder, Joss Hallissey. Essie is convinced that with Joss’s help they can pull this off. There’s just one tiny problem: Joss hates Christmas, gingerbread, and… well, just about everything else too.
Joss the Grinch makes it clear that her idea is ludicrous and pointless, but he reluctantly agrees to help with her plan.
Will the gingerbread house be enough to save Mistletoe Gardens? Or will Essie’s chance for a magical kiss under the mistletoe be lost forever?
Perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Kat French and Caroline Roberts!
Readers LOVE Jaimie Admans!
‘This book really captured my heart and filled it with so much joy, I just couldn’t put the book down. I can’t wait to get stuck in to more of Jaimie’s books.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Highly recommend this as a perfect escapist read, once I had started I couldn’t stop and read it in almost one sitting.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Thank you Jaimie for another amazing book.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Oh wow Jaimie Admans has done it again. I laughed, I cried whilst trying to work out the mysteries within the story.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘I loved this book! Clear your diary for an afternoon or two in the garden and get reading…’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Jaimie Admans books always manage to grab you from the first page, and this wonderful book is no exception. I was drawn in by the magical, otherworldly atmosphere of the story.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Pests, Diseases and Disorders of Garden Plants (Collins Photo Guide)
Essential for all gardeners, horticulturists, teachers, students and naturalists, this is a practical, highly-illustrated guide to dealing with the pests, diseases and disorders that commonly affect fruit, vegetables, trees and ornamental garden plants.
A revision of the highly acclaimed Collins Guide to Pests, Diseases and Disorders first published in1981, the book now features completely updated text, the addition of several new pests and diseases that have become important in the last decade, and an impressive full colour plate section with over 600 photographs.
The Introduction provides general information about garden hygiene and plant care and control, including an assessment of pesticides and chemicals. Special attention is given to the increasing importance of biological control in gardens.
•The A-to-Z of Symptoms lists all the common garden plants, and describes likely causes of problems with leaves, shoots, flowers, fruit and buds, with cross-references to the detailed entries in the main section of the book.
•Pests are arranged by groups of closely related organisms. Problems such as eelworms, slugs, snails, aphids and birds are all dealt with.
•Diseases are organised on the basis of symptoms such as rusts, smuts, cankers and rots.
•Disorders, like mineral deficiencies and genetic abnormalities, are grouped under the main factors causing them – mechanical, climatic, nutritional etc.Read more
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RHS Pests & Diseases: New Edition, Plant-by-plant Advice, Keep Your Produce and Plants Healthy
Have you got a plant with a problem and don’t know how to fix it? This unrivalled practical reference is all you need to nurse it back to health.
Drawing on the expertise and authority of the RHS, RHS Pests and Diseases has been carefully conceived to help you make a correct diagnosis and find the most effective cure. This brand new edition includes helpful new entries detailing how to cope with the latest prevalent problems, and how to adhere to current best practice and new legislation on chemical control. Look up possible ailments in the plant-by-plant listings; make a visual identification from the extensive gallery of symptoms; then follow detailed advice in the A-Z directory to remedy the issue. With a focus on growing for food and an emphasis on organic solutions, RHS Pests and Diseases will help your garden stay productive, attractive, and in the best of health.Read more
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Self-sufficiency For Dummies Collection – Growing Your Own Fruit & Veg For Dummies/Keeping Chickens For Dummies UK Edition
Become self-sufficient at home with this great two book collection.
Self-sufficiency For Dummies Collection includes Growing Your Own Fruit & Veg For Dummies and Keeping Chickens For Dummies UK Edition.
• From planning a planting calendar to feeding and caring for new plants, Growing Your Own Fruit & Veg For Dummies shows readers how to grow the tastiest fruit and vegetables all year round
• Offering expert advice to the reader straight from the River Cottage ‘Chicken Whisperer’, so whether you’re looking to raise chickens for eggs, meat, or just the entertainment value and fun Keeping Chickens For Dummies is the perfect place to start
Fresh eggs, vegetables and fruit – straight from your garden. Get started with these great two books today!Read more
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The Essential Allotment Planner with 2024 Diary: An Indispensable Journal for Allotment Holders and Vegetable Growers
Plan and record your veggie successes and failures through the year with this indispensable Allotment logbook and journal.
With diary sections, planning pages and plenty of space to scribble your notes, this Essential Allotment Planner is beautifully designed and illustrated throughout to help you get the most out of your vegetable plot. This large sized Allotment journal is full of useful pages for you to write and record your seed sowing successes (or not!) throughout the gardening year.
It includes:- A full 2024 diary with plenty of room to write and list your jobs for each week
- 5 Plot rotation plans for each season with space to record your sowing, transplanting and harvesting dates
- Monthly, seasonal and end of year review sections to help track pests and diseases, the weather and your vegetable victories and flops!
- Comprehensive seed sowing calendar
- Allotment plans for the start and end of the year
- Full of handy little tips to get you through the growing season
- The allotment planner is a generous 7 x 10 inches and is beautifully illustrated throughout
- A useful and practical gift idea making a great Christmas present for any keen vegetable grower
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SowHow: A modern guide to grow-your-own veg
When you’re growing veg for the first time it can be hard to know where to start and even more difficult to find inspiring advice that isn’t completely incomprehensible…
Enter SowHow – the innovative grow guide for the modern gardener. With its fresh, bright design and clear-cut know-how, this clever little book provides all the expert advice and encouragement you need to get growing.
You’ll find entries on 30 easy-grow vegetables to sow throughout the seasons, from kale to runner beans and carrots to cucamelons, plus ideas for herbs, edible flowers and advice on cultivating your own cocktail garden. SowHow breaks down the key steps of sowing, planting and harvesting each featured vegetable into understandable bite-sized chunks using straightforward language and smart infographics. Plus, the essential start-up advice covering everything from top tools and cunning crop rotations, to uncomplicated compost and the lowdown on mulches, will make you a pro in no time.
Complete with simple cooking suggestions, shrewd storage info and creative gardening hacks, this unique, comprehensive companion will transform your grow space into a hot bed for leeks, beets and all your other veggie friends. So whether you are looking to fill a garden, an allotment, or a patio pot, get going and grow with SowHow.
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£11.90£12.30SowHow: A modern guide to grow-your-own veg
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Close to the Veg: A Book of Allotment Tales
Close to the Veg A truly original book about vegetable growing, written as a personal narrative. Full descriptionRead more
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Vegetables in a Small Garden: Simple Steps to Success (RHS Simple Steps to Success)
Simple steps to gardening success, from the experts at the RHS.
Follow RHS gardening tips and know-how on growing vegetables in a small space. You’ll discover everything from inspirational small garden ideas and organic gardening techniques to finding the best site, choosing the right seeds, growing veg in pots, and protecting against pests.
For more step-by-step gardening advice, pick up other titles from this series.
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Incredible! Plant Veg, Grow a Revolution
Incredible! reveals how one town decided to take control of its own future – with vegetables. The future looks bleak. The economy’s in the doldrums. We’ve lost faith in politicians and big business. Over all that looms the threat of climate change – extreme weather is already sending shock waves through global food supplies. But a once-forgotten Yorkshire mill town is spreading a new story of hope…This is the tale of an extraordinary local food movement that has become a worldwide phenomenon. Told by Pam Warhurst, co-founder of Incredible Edible Todmorden, and writer Joanna Dobson, the book invites readers into a humorous, inspiring and often moving series of stories that brought people together through the simple method of planting vegetables in public places. People have found that when they put edible plants in their front gardens, they get to know their neighbours, building a community one conversation at a time. When they grow fruit trees at school, children learn life skills. And when market traders stock local produce, they build business networks. Incredible Edible Todmorden has sparked similar projects across the world – and it could be your story, too! Incredible! Plant Veg, Grow a Revolution has an international audience, appealing to anyone who cares about the environment, gardening, community, education or local enterprise.Read more
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Gardeners’ World: 201 Ideas for Growing Fruit and Veg
There is nothing quite like home-grown produce. Whether it’s a crisp apple, freshly picked on a summer’s day, or a handful of hardy vegetables and herbs to keep you going through the winter months, the benefits of growing your own crops are endless. Which is why the experts at Gardeners’ World magazine have compiled this collection of their most useful tips for making the most of your garden or allotment.Whether it’s pointers on how to get started or expert hints for the seasoned gardener, 201 Ideas for Growing Fruit and Veg is packed with useful gardening know-how. From simple projects for growing veg in small plots, to inspired ideas for ensuring that your crops grow successfully year on year, you will find here a wealth of advice, all gathered from the years of gardening experience of the team at Britain’s biggest-selling gardening magazine.
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Home-Grown Harvest: Delicious ways to enjoy your seasonal fruit and vegetables
More than 150 recipes for making the most of your home-grown fruit and vegetables – from warming soups and bakes to vibrant summer salads and tangy preserves.
There is nothing as satisfying as growing your own produce – home-grown fruit and vegetables, picked and used at the height of freshness, are more tasty and nutritious than any supermarket offerings. Not only that, but they also cut down on food miles and can be a far more budget friendly way to eat. Home-grown Harvest is a celebration of the bounty you can grow in your garden, back yard or even windowbox. Cultivating your own fruit and vegetables does not have to mean eating the same dishes days in a row to use up produce. Instead, this book will show you how to use creatively what you grow in an array of exciting combinations. Simply organised, the book makes each vegetable or fruit the star of its own chapter, providing a wealth of different recipes to use up any gluts you may have (from the garden or a trip to the farmers’ market). From fresh dishes such as Triple Tomato Risotto with Basil or Strawberry Tiramisu, to preserves and chutneys, which can be stored for future use, each recipe is selected because it is rich in fresh produce. With handy tips and hints for preparing vegetables, and beautiful photographs throughout, Home-grown Harvest is an invaluable guide to cooking seasonally and eating very well indeed.
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The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Vegetables: The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Vegetables (7) (Kew Experts)
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.
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RHS Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener: Old, new, common and curious vegetables to grow and eat
A beautifully illustrated manual of great-tasting vegetables and their history, cultivation and preparation.Read more
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The Plant Lover’s Backyard Forest Garden: Trees, Fruit and Veg in Small Spaces
Grow your own beautiful multilayered food forest in your own backyard. Pippa Chapman is an RHS trained gardener who designs, plants and maintains abundant, biodiverse, edible and beautiful forest gardens. Here she shares her practical tips for realistically transforming your own plot, whatever its size, and with limited time, money and resources. A forest garden doesn’t have to be big; you can grow a productive edible paradise in pots and containers too. Pippa explains how to create multiple layers on a small-scale to maximise your growing area, using polycultures and guilds for healthy, low-maintenance food. She shares how to use perennials for structure and for year-round food, and how to incorporate flowers for beauty, wildlife and for the kitchen. Chapters on permaculture design and forest gardening give practical advice on how to plan and plant your own garden, with guilds and plant profiles to give real-life examples to help you get started. Useful tips on propagation and seed saving help keep plant costs low and a handy chapter on the soil-food web will help you understand your own soil and how to keep it healthy.Read more
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Veg Street: Growing Dinner on Your Doorstep
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.Read more
£10.00£16.10Veg Street: Growing Dinner on Your Doorstep
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Carol Klein, Royal Horticultural Society RHS Grow Your Own Veg
This is a TV tie-in for the BBC TV series “Grow Your Own Veg!” by TV presenter and highly regarded gardener Carol Klein, who has collaborated with the Royal Horticultural Society to create a lavishly illustrated, easy-to-follow, practical and inspiring beginner’s handbook to everything anyone ever needs to know to grow vegetables, salads, and herbs all year round. “Grow Your Own Veg!” complements and builds upon the information covered in the TV series of the same name and provides all the practical know-how to get growing your own vegetables. Combining Carol Klein’s no-nonsense and enthusiastic approach to gardening, much loved by viewers of “Gardeners’ World” on BBC TV, with the horticultural best practice from the Royal Horticultural Society, this is a genuinely step-by-step beginner’s guide to growing an aspirational but achievable range of food plants. Whatever the size of a garden, this is a book to convert readers to the pleasures of growing and harvesting their own food plants. From preparing a plot, planning what to plant, and how to grow any one of the 40 featured food plants, this is a book to which veg growers can return every year, whatever their level of expertise.A beautiful reference guide book for vegetable gardeners everywhere of all ages and abilities.This hardback book has 224 pages and measures: 24.8 x 19.8 x 2.8cm.
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Do Grow:Start with 10 Simple Vegetables (Do Books): 2
‘Ever wanted to grow your own but don’t have the time, the space, or even know where to start? Alice Holden, one of Britain’s most pioneering female growers, has spent her life outdoors working on small and large scales – from kitchen gardens to commercial farms. In this, her first book, she’ll help optimise the space and time available to you – even if it’s a window box and 10 minutes a week.
Find out:
- The basic tools you need to get started
- How to make a raised bed and why you need one
- A recipe for compost
- How to increase your chances of success
With delicious recipes from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Pam Corbin and others that Alice has worked with over the years, Do Grow will inspire you to change your view. And plant an edible garden.’
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Incredible Edibles: Grow Something Different in Your Fruit and Veg Plot
Be inspired to cultivate and cook amazing new crops with this seed-to-plate guide to more than 50 out-of-the-ordinary edibles.
Whether you’re new to grow-your-own and determined to make the most of limited space with a truly gourmet harvest, or a seasoned grower looking to spice up the kitchen garden with brand new flavour experiences, Incredible Edibles has something for everyone. It offers step-by-step instructions, giving you the confidence to grow some unusually tasty crops; from the well-known turmeric and goji berry, to the more exotic cucamelon and strawberry spinach. It includes guidance on how to store, keep fresh, and preserve your crops so that nothing goes to waste.
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2024 Diary and Gardeners Log Book: Gardening Organizer & Journal Notebook | Garden Planner with Yearly Planting Calendar
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Perfect Planning And Organization Your Garden– Planner With Calendar 2024.
Keep your garden wonderful and stay organized with this great Gardening Journal.Product Details:
-8.5×11 inches
-166 pages
-Printed on high quality solid white paper
-Premium cover glossy finishGreat Quality and Satisfaction Guaranteed!
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The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables: All the know-how and encouragement you need to grow – and fall in love with! – your brand new food garden (1) (The First-Time…
You’re excited to plant your first vegetable garden—but where to start? In The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables, you’ll find the answers you’re looking for.*Winner of the GardenComm 2022 Media Awards Silver Award of Achievement in the Photography/Book General Readership Category*
Homesteader Jessica Sowards, the warm and energetic host of YouTube’s Roots and Refuge Farm, is the perfect teacher for new gardeners, offering not just know-how but inspiration and time-management tips for success.
Before you sink your hands into the soil, she’ll answer all those questions rolling around inside your head:
- Where do I put my new garden?
- How do I prepare the soil?
- What vegetables should I plant?
- Is it better to start new plants from seed or should I buy transplants?
- What about watering, feeding, and taking care of my garden?
- What do I do if bugs show up?
There are no stupid questions here. Everyone has to start somewhere, after all. Not only will you learn how to prepare, plant, and tend your first vegetable garden, you’ll also learn:
- How to design an eco-friendly layout
- How to grow with the seasons
- How to maximize your harvest, even if you only grow in a small space
Jessica wants your first food-growing experience to be a positive one, and she’s prepared to go the distance to make sure tending the earth becomes your new favorite hobby.
A single growing season is all it takes to fall in love with growing your own healthy, organic, nutrient-dense food. With Jessica as your guide, you’ll soon discover all the satisfactions, challenges, and great joys of growing your own food garden.
This book is part of The First-Time Gardener’s Guides series from Cool Springs Press, which also includes The First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers and The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening. Each book in The First-Time Gardener’s Guides series is aimed at beginner gardeners and offers clear, fact-based information that’s presented in a friendly and accessible way, including step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations throughout.
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BASIC SOIL SCIENCE for SUCCESSFUL VEGETABLE GARDENING: 7 Simple Steps to Ensure Your Traditional, Raised-Bed, Container, or No-Till Garden Isn’t a Weed-Filled Failure (Bruce’s…
Discover the science behind gardening that will revolutionize your approach and make growing vegetables easier and more enjoyable than ever before…You’ve done everything right. You spent hours seeding, watering, and tending to your garden only to find that you end up with a dry, weed-filled patch of dirt.
Feeling like you’ve wasted your time is frustrating, especially when you don’t know the reason why. It might seem like everyone else is able to conjure up a lush garden in no time, leaving you feeling lost and confused.
As easy as gardening may seem in theory, most people don’t know much about the science behind it.
Why, for example, are you only supposed to water certain plants in certain amounts? Why does it matter what soil you’re planting in?
These questions, and others, often leave new and amateur gardeners alike scratching their heads.
You may know what to do, but you don’t know why.
Understanding what’s really happening in the earth that you’re so carefully tending to will change the way you think about gardening forever. No longer will you be trying methods randomly, hoping to hit on the right approach.
Drawing on years of research and hours of hands-on experience, Bruce McCord knows exactly what you need to do if you want to have the flourishing garden of your dreams.
He’s compiled this knowledge into an introductory guide that will teach you the essentials you need to know about soil science and how to make the most of your time in the garden.
In Basic Soil Science for Successful Vegetable Gardening, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:
- A simple, step-by-step method for planting and growing crops that even beginner gardeners will be able to follow
- How to identify when a plant is ready to be harvested – and the proper techniques to do so
- A breakdown of the different types of gardens with in-depth analysis of pros and cons so you can make the right choice depending on your needs
- The ins and outs of soil science and why you need to understand it in order to have a thriving garden
- How to correctly water your plants for maximum growth
- 7 common mistakes made by amateur gardeners and how to avoid them to save yourself time, effort, and money
- Everything you need to know about compost: how to make it, maintain it, and use it to improve your soil quality
- 5 basic soil tests you can do at home, no labs required!
And much more.
Don’t spend another season toiling away only to come up with a few scraggly plants and a lot of wasted time. By learning what’s happening behind the scenes, you’ll be able to make informed decisions that will have your garden thriving in no time.
You don’t need expensive products or expert advice to become a gardening pro – you’ve got all the information you’ll need right here!
If you’re ready to grow a bountiful harvest, then scroll up and click the “Add to Cart” button right now.
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Growing Unusual Vegetables: Weird and Wonderful Vegetables and How to Grow Them
Growing Unusual Vegetables is for gardeners who like to try something different. In this book they will find more than ninety unusual plants, all of them edible. The book is divided into sections on greens, roots, fruits, seeds, grains, and flavorings for easy reference. Each plant entry comes complete with comprehensive cultivation instructions, hardiness zones, and fascinating notes on the plant’s origin, history, and uses.
With this indispensable guide, you can turn your garden into a unique storehouse of useful and unusual edible plants, many of which are surprisingly easy to grow.Read more
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Grow Your Own Vegetables: How to Grow, What to Grow, When to Grow (Digging and Planting)
Like the idea of the self-sufficient good life? “Grow Your Own Vegetables” presents an informative and user-friendly guide to realizing your garden’s potential. Opening with the persuasive case for growing your own vegetables – from reducing your carbon footprint to improving your health and bank balance – the book goes on to present concise instructions on how to cultivate a successful and satisfying vegetable garden, ending with a comprehensive directory of vegetables, including how and when to grow and harvest, storage advice and serving suggestions.Read more
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My Year in Veg and Dirt: Garden Planner and Log Book for your Homestead, Allotment or Veg Patch
This yearly planner is designed and written by an allotment owner to help fellow gardeners log and plan their year ahead. No matter where you dig and plan your harvest, from a few raised beds, a traditional British Allotment, or if you are the proud owner of your very own homestead. It all starts with good planning. This book makes the perfect gift as the season begins in winter around the 3rd week of December, so it coincides with Christmas! The book is undated, so it can be started at any time of the year and will run through all four seasons of gardening, fruit or vegetable production. Never again struggle with just a lined notebook again.Each planner contains:
- 12 diary pages – month to view with notes and Planning space
- A seasonal 13-week planning page for Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn/Fall
- Design Overview Annual Planner for 24 beds – gant chart with Key for at a glance planting plan
- Graph Paper for drawing out bed or garden design over 61 pages, so there is plenty of space to plan and re-plan your design.
- 20 lined Pages for journal writing
- Inventory and Tracker for Seed and Plant Purchases
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Grow & Cook: An A-Z of what to grow all through the year at home
The content of this book originally appeared in The New Kitchen Garden, published in 2015.
‘An endless selection of delicious produce you can plant, grow and then cook with.’ Raymond Blanc OBE
Now you can create your own delicious edible garden at home!
More and more people are being inspired to grow a little of what they eat at home. But while starting your own kitchen garden may seem like a daunting task at first, Grow & Cookmakes it easy.
Award-winning author and gardener, Mark Diacono, has distilled years of knowledge into this pocket-sized book. Whether you are new to gardening and only have a small window box or you are much more experienced with the space to experiment, this user-friendly handbook will inspire and help you. Mark is here to show you that there are plenty of options for everyone and lots of exciting new varieties to discover.
Each variety in the book includes a wealth of information on when to sow, growing tips, potential problems, harvesting and plenty more. There are hundreds of varieties to pick from that can be grown and then used in your kitchen.
Mark separates the growing guides into three groups:
* Vegetables
* Fruit & Nuts
* Herbs & SpicesWhatever you choose to grow should suit your lifestyle. You might prefer something tough and sturdy that doesn’t need too much love or time commitment, or you might get pleasure from the steady graft of looking after your veg patch. Whichever your circumstances, your kitchen garden should bring you joy both in the growing process and then in the kitchen.
Grow & Cook is the essential pocket guide for modern gardeners.
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The RHS Fruit and Veg Notebook
This is a pocket-size notebook in which gardeners can make notes about the varieties of fruit and vegetables being planted, as well as cultivation and fertilization specifics and the yield at harvest. The book is divided into two sections and then into different types of fruit or vegetables, including special interest – with coloured tabs to make the sections easy to find. Each page is divided into vertical columns with headings such as variety, date planted/sown, supplier and planting position and harvest yield details. The illustrations are botanical drawings from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Library.
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RHS Step-by-Step Veg Patch By Lucy Chamberlain & RHS Small Garden Handbook By Andrew Wilson 2 Books Collection Set
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:RHS Step-by-Step Veg Patch By Lucy Chamberlain & RHS Small Garden Handbook By Andrew Wilson 2 Books Collection Set:
RHS Step-by-Step Veg Patch:
ISBN-10 : 0241412412
ISBN-13 : 978-0241412411
This gardening book will help you learn how to grow, nurture, and harvest more than 50 types of fruits and vegetables. The bright photos, step-by-step illustrations, and foolproof advice will get you growing in no time. Perfect for beginners as well as keen gardeners. This planting book will teach you how to plan your space, be it a small raised bed, some pots, or a large vegetable patch. Maximise your harvest and explore different planting themes that suit your needs! You’ll also discover useful tips for selecting plants to match your theme.RHS Small Garden Handbook:
ISBN-10 : 184533681X
ISBN-13 : 978-1845336813
RHS Small Garden Handbook provides an all-in-one guide for small space gardeners and draws on the experience in growing, planting, landscaping and design for which the RHS is world famous. It begins by explaining how to assess your plot so that you are aware of the soil, orientation, microclimate, existing materials and proportions that you have to work with, before revealing the principles of good design. Showing how your decisions on layout, colour and texture will affect the finished design and what tricks can be played to create a greater sense of space – with everything from expert design advice on boundaries, hedges and fences to clever ideas for containers and storage – every gardener will gain confidence in creating a garden to enjoy no matter how big the plot.Read more
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How to Grow Vegetables in Pots and Containers: 9 Steps to Plant & Harvest Organic Food in as Little as 21 Days for Beginners (The Urban Farmer Series)
Are you tired of buying vegetables from the grocery store that are grown with pesticides and other harmful chemicals? Do you want to enjoy fresh, organic produce that you grew yourself but don’t have the space for a traditional garden? If so, this book is the perfect resource for you!
This comprehensive beginner’s guide to growing vegetables in pots and containers covers everything you need to know to get started. In just nine simple steps, you’ll learn how to plant and harvest your own organic food in as little as 21 days.
The book starts by explaining the benefits of container gardening and how it differs from traditional gardening. You’ll learn about the different types of containers available, including plastic, ceramic, and terracotta. The book also explains how to choose the right size container for the type of vegetable you want to grow.
Once you have your container, the book guides you through the process of creating the perfect growing medium. You’ll learn about the different types of soil available and which one is best for your vegetables. The book also explains how to add nutrients to the soil to promote healthy plant growth.
With your container and soil ready, the book then explains how to plant your vegetable seeds or seedlings. You’ll learn about the best time to plant, how deep to plant, and how far apart to space your plants. The book also covers how to care for your plants, including watering, fertilizing, and pruning.
As you watch your vegetables grow, the book provides tips on how to keep pests and diseases at bay. You’ll learn about natural pest control options and how to identify and treat common plant diseases.
By the end of this book, you’ll have all the knowledge and tools you need to grow your own fresh, organic produce in containers. Whether you’re short on space or just looking for a new hobby, this book is the perfect resource for anyone interested in container gardening. So why not give it a try and enjoy the satisfaction of growing your own vegetables?
So be prepared to get dirty and turn yourself into a successful gardener with minimal time and effort. Scroll up and click “Add to Cart” right now.
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RHS Step-by-Step Veg Patch by DK (2012-03-01)
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Happy Days Veg: A handy notebook and project planner
Your dedicated space to plan your Vegetable & Gardening journey.
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Tender: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch [A Cookbook]
A comprehensive, deeply personal, and visually stunning guide to growing and cooking vegetables from Britain’s foremost food writer, with more than 400 recipes and extensive gardening notes.
In the tradition of Roast Chicken and Other Stories comes Tender, a passionate guide to savoring the best the garden has to offer. An instant classic when it was first published in the UK, Tender is a cookbook, a primer on produce, and above all, a beloved author’s homage to his favorite vegetables. Slater’s inspired and inspiring writing makes this a book to sit with and savor as much as one to prop open in the kitchen. The chapters explore 29 vegetables and offer enticing, comforting recipes such as Potato Cakes with Chard and Taleggio, a Tart of asparagus and Tarragon, and Grilled Lamb with Eggplant and Za’atar. With wit, enthusiasm, and a charming lack of pretension, Slater champions vegetables–through hands-on nurturing in the garden and straightforward preparations in the kitchen–with this truly essential book for every kitchen library.
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RHS How to Grow Fruit & Veg in Pots
The essential guide to growing fruit and veg in small spaces, indoors and out
No room for a veg patch? RHS How to Grow Fruit & Veg in Pots demonstrates how salads, vegetables, herbs and fruit can flourish in pots in even the tiniest town garden, as well as on a balcony or windowsill. All the edibles featured have been specially chosen to grow well in containers and growbags, producing an abundant harvest. The RHS show how to make the best of a small space – planting hanging baskets with tomatoes, chillies, and strawberries and growing beans and other plants that will scramble up walls and fences.
Packed with exciting ideas for design and practical growing tips, plants have been organised by growing conditions and key qualities to direct you to just what you need. Detailed advice for each crop includes information on suitable pot size and compost, location, planting up, pest protection, watering and feeding and harvesting. Troubleshoot any problems that you may encounter using the handy help section and find solutions for common plant diseases and pests to keep your pots looking perfect.
No matter how large or small your space, RHS How to Grow Fruit & Veg in Pots will give you all the information you need to create your own Garden of Eden.
Previously published as RHS How to Grow Plants in Pots.
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