The Easy Fruit Garden by Clare Matthews, hardback published by New Holland. ISBN 978-1-84773-858-5, price 16.99 available from www.newhollandpublishers.com
This book has a sound philosophy – anyone can grow fruit. Clare even states that growing apple trees is easy and I have it on good authority that the pruning and care can be quite demanding. It’s [...]
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The Easy Fruit Garden by Clare Matthews
Now Is The Season by Laura Faire
Now Is The Season by Laura Faire, softback published by New Holland. ISBN 978-1-86966-316-2, price 16.99 available from www.newhollandpublishers.com
Common sense gardening and cooking combined. Grow, cook in season and eat simple and honest fayre for the table. Each season presents a gardening calendar and a menu. The simple gardening calendar gives what to plant, when [...]
Year Round Vegetable Gardener by Niki Jabbour
Year Round Vegetable Gardener by Niki Jabbour, softback published by Storey. ISBN 978-1-60342-568-1, price 19.55 in the Uk, available from www.storey.com
I have long extolled the virtues of sowing seed year round. I have long extolled the virtues of vegetable growing. So I welcomed this book with open arms. Niki looks at how to extend the [...]
Vertical Vegetables & Fruit by Rhonda Massingham Hart
Vertical Vegetables & Fruit by Rhonda Massingham Hart, softback published by Storey Books. ISBN 978-1-60342-998-6, price 11.99 available from www.storey.com
Growing vertically is such a good way to maximise the space in your garden. Growing veg makes sense in more than one way – it’s a healthy thing to grow and eat! This is a no [...]
Foliage Plants by Christopher Lloyd
Foliage Plants by Christopher Lloyd, softback published by Frances Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-71112-3243-3, price 12.99available from www.franceslincoln.com
Originally published in 1973, this edition of this gardener’s garden book comes with an introduction by Fergus Garrett, who himself needs no introduction to lovers of Great Dixter, the garden of the the late Christopher Lloyd. This small volume stands [...]