Window-box Allotment

by Clarke, Becky; Boursnell, Clive; Bennett, Penelope

• ISBN13: 9780711231733
• ISBN10: 0711231737
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-15
• Publisher: White Lion Publishing

Summary

A revised and expanded version of Penelope Bennett's popular guide to growing fruit, vegetables and herbs in a tiny space. In a space that measures only 5 x 2.5m (16 x 8 ft), outside her kitchen window, high up on a London rooftop, Penelope Bennett cultivates a kitchen garden that includes artichokes, aubergines, beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers, alpine strawberries, raspberries, a cornucopia of herbs, 31 kinds of potato and six different fruit trees, among them a fig that fruits with spectacular abundance. With Windowbox Allotment as your guide you can make your outdoor space, however tiny, equally prolific. And as you learn how to do it you will be endlessly entertained.

Author Biography

Penelope Bennett is a writer who has no formal training as a gardener but has acquired her considerable skills through trial and error. Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines. Her novella of short stories, Endangered Happiness, was nominated for the David Higham Prize for Fiction. Town Parrot, a children's book, was published by Walker Books. Penelope lives in London. Clive Boursnell is a renowned photographer of architecture, gardens, landscapes and, above all, people. He turned to photography as the culmination of a career which included classical ballet and working as a woodsman, a farmhand, a miner and prospector, and a mountaineer.