Grow It Yourself Fruit & Veg For the "Have a Go" Gardener

by Harland, Gail

• ISBN13: 9781904871477
• ISBN10: 190487147X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-15
• Publisher: Good Life Press

Summary

In these days of concern about the rising cost of the weekly food bills, chemicals in food and food miles, there is an increasing interest in turning over at least part of the garden into a vegetable garden. However many people are still unsure of how to go about anything other than growing a couple of tomato plants in a growbag. ls"Easy Grow!rs" not only describes and illustrates a variety of crops that are just as easy to grow as your tomatoes, but also gives the ultimate encouragement on how to get started with plenty of ls"how tors" information on churning up your lawn and giving your vegetables the very best start in life. The book looks at how to maximize your space, the equipment needed (apart from your own muscle power) to convert your garden of blooms (or weeds) into your very own vegetable garden and then covers the many principles of vegetable growing, covering all the essential fruit and vegetables that can be grown easily, including tomatoes cucumbers, peppers, aubergines, salad crops and fruits such as pepino, tomatillos and physalis.

Author Biography

Gail Harland is a regular contributor to various magazines including The Lady, Amateur Gardening, Country Smallholding and Parrots. Her book, Photographing Your Garden, was published by GMC Publications and she supplies photographs to four picture libraries; Garden World Images, Natural Science, Travel Ink and the Sylvia Cordaiy Photo Library.  She is also an active member of many horticultural societies including the Royal Horticultural Society, The Alpine Garden Society, The Hardy Plant Society and The Cottage Garden Society. She is the newsletter editor for The Peony Society and Secretary for The Peony Group of The Hardy Plant Society. Gail lives in Suffolk, England where she has a cottage garden of about one acre that she shares with her husband, two sons and a variety of ducks, geese and chickens.