The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Vegetables The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Vegetables

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• ISBN13: 9780711242784
• ISBN10: 071124278X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-03-03
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Summary

This guide from the experts of Kew Royal Botanical Gardens is filled with tips and advice to help you grow your best vegetable garden ever!

In this book Kew's Kitchen Gardener, Helena Dove, combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty to make a comprehensive and informative guide with all you need to know to master theart of growing vegetables.

She shows how to grow some of the most popular staple crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, radishes and rocket, and also some more unusual and exciting choices such as oca, tomatillo, seakale and yacon.

She gives easy to follow instructions on how to be a successful vegetable gardener, plus 12 exciting projects to try throughout the year including forcing rhubarb, creating an asparagus border and growing in raised beds.

From sowing, to planting young plants, to hardening off and harvesting, find out what you need to do and when, to produce the most magnificent harvests. All the advice is underpinned by the expertise and authority of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and illustrated from Kew's world-famous botanical collection. 

​ With this book, you wil be able to reap a rich bounty of delicious vegetables from just a few packets of seed and some fertile ground!

This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing Herbs and Guide to Growing House Plants.

Author Biography

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a world famous centre for botanical and mycological knowledge. Over the past 250 years Kew has made innumerable contributions to increasing the understanding of plants and fungi with many benefits for humankind.

Helena Dove is the Kitchen Gardener at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and previously worked at Myddelton House Gardens in Enfield, London. She has written for magazines including Garden News, The Plant Heritage, as well as the Kew Blog. She trained in horticulture on the Historic and Botanic Gardening Training Scheme and studied her RHS qualifications at Writtle College.
 

Table of Contents

Contents
6       INTRODUCTION TO GROWING VEGETABLES
30      PLANTS
32      Okra
33      Leek
34      Onion
36      PROJECT 1: RAISED BEDS
38      Shallot
39      Spring onion
40      Garlic
42      American groundnut
43      Celery
44      Celeriac
45      Peanut
46      Asparagus
48      PROJECT 2: CREATING AN ASPARAGUS BED
50      Beetroot
51      Chard
52      Swede
53      Kale
55      Calabrese
56      PROJECT 3: USING VEGETABLES AS A DECORATIVE DISPLAY
58      Cauliflower
59      Cabbage
61      Brussels sprout
62      Kohl rabi
63      Sprouting broccoli
64      Turnip
65      Pak choi
66      Mizuna
67      Komatsuna
68      Pepper
69      Endive
70      Chicory
71      Miner’s lettuce
72      Seakale
73      Cucumber
74      PROJECT 4: CREATING A WILDLIFE FRIENDLY VEGETABLE GARDEN
76      Courgette and summer squash
77      Winter squash
78      Pumpkin
79      Globe artichoke
80      Carrot
82      PROJECT 5: BUILDING A ROOT CLAMP
84      Rocket
85      Florence fennel
87      Soya bean
88      Jerusalem artichoke
89      Sweet potato
90      PROJECT 6: SWEET POTATO SLIPS
92      Lettuce
94      Cucamelon
95      Watercress
96      PROJECT 7: ROOTING WATERCRESS
98      Oca
98      Parsnip
100    Parsnip root
101    Runner bean
102    French bean
103    Tomatillo
104    Pea
106    PROJECT 8: WINDOWSILL SALADS
108    Mangetout and sugar snap pea
109    Radish
110    Radish pod
111    Rhubarb
112    PROJECT 9: FORCED RHUBARB
114    Buckler leaf sorrel
115    Agretti
116    Yacon
117    Tomato
120    PROJECT 10: SAVING SEED
122    Aubergine
123    Potato
126    PROJECT 11: FESTIVE VEGETABLES
128    Spinach
129    Lamb’s lettuce
130    PROJECT 12: NATURAL SUPPORTS FOR BROAD BEANS
132    Broad bean
133    Sweetcorn
134    Troubleshooting
138    What to do when
142    Index
144    Acknowledgments