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Vegetable Growing Month-by-month: The Down-to-earth Guide That Takes You Through the Vegetable Year
£5.70£9.50 (-40%)
Whatever the size of your garden or allotment, you can grow your own vegetables. Even if you only have a balcony or a small paved area outside your kitchen, you can grow more than you ever thought possible in pots, containers and raised beds. Experienced vegetable grower, John Harrison takes you through the entire vegetable year so that, for all the main vegetables, you’ll know exactly when you should sow your seeds, dig your plot and harvest your crops. Choose the most appropriate vegetables for your particular soil and select the right position so that they flourish. Discover how to make your own compost and organic fertilisers, as well as the best methods of controlling pests. Find out how to extend the season by buying or building your own cloches and cold frames. Put an end to worries that your shop-bought vegetables contain chemical residues or to concerns about the air miles such vegetables have flown en route to your table!
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Additional information
| Publisher | Right Way (13 Mar. 2008) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 256 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0716021897 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0716021896 |
| Dimensions | 13 x 1.7 x 19.71 cm |
by victoria simpson
Very informative
by Angie Garbitt
Extremely informative gardening book
by jennie
Love the book Good value Lots of good tips about veg
by jean Beverly Gillam
Love this book
by tommytucker
I bought this book while i was starting out with my veggie plot and veggie gardening in general.
The book was very cheap, and has a great wealth of information. There are not too many vain or wasted sentences here, every paragraph is full of information (and or authors opinion) on what to grow and when. The author is very experienced and knowledgable.
The author also runs his own website, but hey, you cant always read a blog on a smartphone while you sit on your allotment.
Its an easy read, but im increasingly using it as a reference guide as well. Its not the sort of book you read and sell on – it can be used as reference material.
If you are starting out, the first approx 1/3 of the book covers the main elementary considerations, including tool choices, how to test soils, soil preparation etc for the beginner. I found the soil preparation diagrams confusing, but the rest of the diagrams were mostly sketches of vegetables for aesthetics, or weed sketches to try show weed structures.
It doesnt necessarily cover every conceivable veg you can grow, ive spotted a few missing that i felt were fairly common. Naturally there are no fruit mentioned at all, this being a book on vegetables!!
The book is very text heavy, there are not very many diagrams and there are no photographs inside – I wish the author would add a few colour photographs to show common weeds and pests though, come on guys, sketch drawings in the 21st century!
If you are from the USA i wouldnt purchase as it mainly covers UK conditions, flora and fauna.
There is more balanced material out there, particularly from the RHS in the UK, which is also written by a lot more people and is therefore based on a broader knowledge base, but i find this book more accessible and readable, and some of my RHS books dont necessarily cover all veggie garden subjects well either!
Buy it, its a great book for the amateur veggie gardener, but it wont be your only book on veg growing.
by R.E.Viewer
I like this book. The author clearly writes from experience and is not at all afraid to say what he thinks even if it means sounding a bit old fashioned. For example he has tried the much touted “three sisters” practice of growing squash, beans and sweetcorn together and found it not suited to the typical British summer. He doesn’t simply repeat what he has read in other books, but instead records his own findings.
With this book you don’t get glossy pictures at the expense of substance and good sense. What you get instead is a pretty good section on “how to” followed by the “when” in the month by month. I actually particularly liked the month by month section and found it very readable.
I am not a complete beginner at growing vegetables and have given this four stars rather than five as I am not sure it is all that a beginner would need, but I think it would be a good start at a sensible price and not money wasted on colourful pictures and trendy ideas. Money well spent.
by Jeanette farnell
Good all round information
Just what I needed
by Paul Mason
Good for the experienced gardener as well as newbies.
Written in easy to understand way. Will be hanging on to this for a long time. Highly recommended