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9781781318454

New Vegetable Garden Techniques Essential skills and projects for tastier, healthier crops

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  • ISBN13:

    9781781318454

  • ISBN10:

    178131845X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2019-04-16
  • Publisher: Frances Lincoln

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Summary

This book is ideal for beginners, improvers and those serious about growing tasty, healthy organic fruit and vegetables. It will empower readers to grow food for a family, and help work out how to get the best results. Many books give sowing and growing instructions for a multitude of crops, but few give space to the techniques and tips that make gardening easier and that help anyone to grow healthy, sustainable food.
Some of the techniques are developed from Joyce’s own trials and observations; others are classic techniques that are still useful now. With a bit more detail, and a step-by-step project, a technique becomes much easier to follow and understand.
There’s something here for everyone: whether you grow in a small back yard and want to know how to raise salad in buckets, or if you have a large allotment where you want to improve pollination, or make your own liquid feeds.
The book makes several promises to its readers. Firstly, by following its advice you will grow great fruit and vegetables. Next, the knowledge you gain will save you time as well as money. Third, you'll enjoy the gardening journey and the discoveries made along the way. Fourth, you'll find greener and cleaner ways of doing things, and you'll improve your skills, methods and habits.
Find out how to rotate your vegetables so they stay healthy and well-fed, to preserve choice crops for the freshest taste, to improve the soil organically and sustainably, and to produce home made fertiliser from the leaves of your comfrey crop. 
 

Author Biography

Ben Russell is an experienced photographer who has had over 3,000 photographs published in magazines, newspapers and books. He specializes in high quality practical garden photography.

Table of Contents

01 INTRODUCTION
02 GETTING STARTED
Introduction
Double digging/single digging
Lazy-beds
Pots
Propagation
Potting on and planting out
 
03 BETTER SOIL
Introduction
Compost
Manures
Comfrey
Leaves
Mulch
Humus
pH (soil acidity/alkalinity)
Using available resources
 
04 BETTER PRODUCE
Introduction;
Crop rotation
Crop protection
Crop supports
Pollination
Companion planting
Liquid Feeds
 
05 STORE YOUR HARVEST
Introduction
Bags, bins and boxes
Making a carrot clamp
Stringing/plaiting onions and garlic
Storing in the ground
Freezing and drying
Preserves & pickles
 
06 AND MORE…
Make your own potting mixes
Saving Seed
 

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