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RHS Grow Your Own: Veg & Fruit Year Planner: What to do when for perfect produce (Royal Horticultural Society Grow Your Own)
£14.80£17.10 (-13%)
Written by RHS experts with more than 50 years of combined growing experience, RHS Grow Your Own Veg & Fruit Year Planner provides the life-changing advice that gardeners need to grow a year-round supply of healthy fruit and vegetables for their table. The book starts with planning what to grow and where to grow it, whether that’s an allotment, a series of containers, raised bed or veg patch, then how to get the best from your soil, and how to get started. Next, in season-by-season chapters, the book takes the reader from sowing to harvesting with simple, clear instructions that will help them stay on top of the challenges and joys of a productive garden. From apples to asparagus, raspberries to radishes, this book will show how to apply age-old techniques to get the most from your plot.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Mitchell Beazley (1 Sept. 2012) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 304 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1845337336 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1845337339 |
| Dimensions | 20 x 2.4 x 25.2 cm |
by A. Lucas
This book is very good…..but I still find that I’m daunted by what to do to grow veggies. I feel that, while it is very informative, it is a bit too much information for a real beginner.
by anon
I bought this specifically because I wanted to know what to plant and do month by month, but it’s all a bit too vague and randomly organised ( sections like ‘early summer’ ‘late summer’ ) so I bought ‘Allotment Month by Month’ also, which is much easier to follow as a timeline. However the RHS book is still a fascinating read, lots of useful information and pretty pictures. The 2 books work well as a pair for me. If the RHS are reading this, I thought the tiny paragraphs on crop rotation were poorly explained- what we want is a list of what types of veg are in which group of plants!
by CountryGirl
As you might expect from a RHS book this covers just about everything you need to know about growing fruit and veg. But it doesn’t necessarily impart that information in an easy to use format. The book is divided up into early, mid and late seasons which can make finding the precise information you need a little tricky if you don’t know which season to look at. The book is illustrated entirely by photos, when sometimes diagrams would be clearer – eg: when explaining how to prune fruit trees a photo of a branch being cut by shears doesn’t show you exactly which branches you should be pruning! A diagram of a whole tree with pruning points marked, and a detailed explanation of why and how to prune at these points, would be more helpful for many gardeners. I’m sure in time I will find it useful when I have the time and patience to wade through it.
by annette hall
CChristmas present fir my daughter in law
by Anthony Grenham
Highly recommend, easy reading with no jargon and lovely photos. For the beginner and established Gardner.
by Sandra G.
Great item, great value
by Christina
Brought as a gift and was well recieved.
My only slight moan would be the cover was bent up in one corner, which would be fine if it was for myself but as I gift I felt a bit bad as it looked tatty. But a good book for a beginner, it has everything to get you started and a good price so no real issue here.
by Amy Boyce
Very informative, tells you when to sow what and Harvest etc