Explains all the skills and techniques you need to grow your own edible crops, from designing the garden, to crop rotation, planting, propagation, pruning, harvesting and storage, illustrated with over 800 practical photographs and plans.
Punctuated with impromptu recipes for delicious dishes incorporating the fresh produce of each season, this book encourages everyone to adopt the creative, relaxed style of the French country cook.
A practical guide on planting, growing, and preparing more than eighty vegetables and herbs, this handy home companion is perfect for avid cooks, foodies, and small scale vegetable gardeners.
Turn nuts, vegetable seeds, grains, and beans into gourmet food.
Attracting Orchard Mason Bees Presently, there is a pollination crisis due to colony collapse disorder (CCD), a serious and mysterious phenomenon that has caused the widespread death of honeybees. Orchard mason bees help fill the void.
Beginning in January with advice on soil pre paration and going right through sowing, planting and harves ting, this is a book for gardeners who want a gentle yet tho rough introduction to growing their own produce. '
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This is a beautifully illustrated and highly practical guide to a new style of gardening. It tells you everything you need to know to create an oranamental kitchen garden from scratch of to transform an existing garden.
Containing line drawings by Trevor Sargent, Trevor's Kitchen Garden is a user-friendly addition to your garden shed, your kitchen or your bedside locker.
For the more ambitious, Jeanne also gives tips and advice on raising chickens and keeping bees in your own backyard. But this book is about much more than planting a kitchen garden and cultivating wholesome food at home.
Whichever your circumstances, this book will help ensure your kitchen garden will bring joy both in the growing and then in the kitchen. Grow & Cook is the essential pocket guide for modern gardeners.