The Kitchen Gardener: Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg
by Alan Titchmarsh
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Allotments with ten-year waiting lists; fruit and veg seeds outselling those of flowers - Britain is growing a passion for home produce and the time is right for the nation's favourite gardener to provide the definitive book on the subject.Alan's comprehensive guide will tell you everything you could possibly want or need to know about fruit and veg and how to grow it, including herbs, baby veg, salads, every-day fruits plus gourmet or unusual varieties, and how to fit them into today's show more stylish small gardens. As well as providing the key facts needed to yield good results and what to do when things go wrong, the text is sprinkled with Alan's personal observations, anecdotes, culinary tips and quirky historical uses. The book takes a very practical approach, starting from scratch for the benefit of anyone who's never grown their own before, but is also ideal for those with some experience who might be growing edibles in a new way -perhaps in a small space that needs to look attractive, or on a new allotment.Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 250 photographs and artworks, this inspirational and authoritative fruit and veg bible from the UK's best-selling and most influential gardener will become a classic in the genre. show lessTags
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Practical bible on veggie gardening, clear, simple and nice layout.
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Originally trained at the Hertfordshire College of Horticulture and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Alan Titchmarsh has enjoyed a long career as a gardener, broadcaster and writer. He is the author of over 30 books about gardening, including Gardeners' World Complete Book of Gardening and How to be a Gardener Books One and Two. Alan has twice been show more named Gardening Writer of the Year, writes a regular column for Gardeners' World Magazine and is also a best-selling novelist. As the presenter of programmes such as Gardeners' World and Ground Force, Alan has done much to contribute to the recent surge in popularity that gardening has enjoyed and was appointed MBE in the 2000 New Year Honours List, for services to horticulture and to broadcasting show less
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- Home & Garden, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Food & Cooking
- DDC/MDS
- 635.0941 — Applied Science & Technology Agriculture Garden crops (Horticulture) modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Europe British Isles -- Ireland & Scotland
- LCC
- SB356 .T58 — Agriculture Horticulture. Plant propagation. Plant breeding Plant culture Fruit and fruit culture
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