Overview
Main description
About the Book
Teach Yourself Growing Your Own Fruits and Vegetables is your guide to growing fresh produce in any patch of earth, be it a garden, a backyard, or series of containers. It gives specific instructions on when, where and how to grow and maintain various fruit and vegetables, from the more basic to the exotic, without the use of chemicals. It includes an A-Z list of plants together with ease of growth ratings and an approach that welcomes involvement from your whole family.
Table of contents
TEACH YOURSELF GROWING YOUR OWN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION
2. SIZE OF PLOT/PLAN
3. TOOLS
4. CROP ROTATIONS
5. PREPARATION OF GROUND
6. MANURES, COMPOSTS AND FERTILISERS
7. SEED SOWING AND TRANSPLANTING TECHNIQUES (Greenhouse and outdoors)
8. WATERING
9. GROWING IN CONTAINERS
10. A.B.C. of varieties
11. PESTS AND DISEASES
12. GROWING CALENDAR
14. MONTH BY MONTH GUIDE
15. GLOSSARY
16. USEFUL CONTACTS
Author comments
Mike Thurlow (Saffron Walden, Essex) is a respected authority on organic gardening, and the head gardener at Audley End House and Gardens. He has overseen the restoration of the Victorian walled kitchen garden, combining Victorian and modern methods to produce organic fruit and vegetables all year round.
