Fruit

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...

The Almanac revives the tradition of the rural almanac, connecting you with the months and seasons via moon-gazing, foraging, feast days, seasonal eating, meteor-spotting and gardening. Award-winning gardener and food writer Lia Leendertz shares the...

There are twenty million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a...

Enjoy bushels of crispy apples and baskets of juicy blueberries from your own backyard. Authors Lewis Hill and Leonard Perry provide everything you need to know to successfully grow delicious organic fruit at home, from choosing the best varieties for...

This newly updated edition guides the budding allotmenter through every step of successful growing from early planning to planting and harvesting. Information on tools, equipment and soil management follows, along with a chapter on what to grow where,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580024Author Orin MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

From Minnesota to Moscow - how to grow fresh figs in cold climates Growing Figs in Cold Climates is a complete, full-color, illustrated guide to organic methods for growing delicious figs in cold climates, well outside the traditional hot, arid home of...

WINNER OF GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD 2023: DRINKS CATEGORY Longlisted for the Andre Simon Award for Drink Books for 2022 Real cider, craft cider, farm cider, artisan cider: Whatever you wish to call it, at its best, cider is made and should be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170394Author Wolf D. StorlFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

"The best wine book I read this year was not about wine. It was about cider"--Eric Asimov, New York Times, on Uncultivated Today, food is being reconsidered. It's a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics...

The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the...

Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields - resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture,...

Smith's legendary high-yield gardening method emphasizes wide rows, organic methods, raised beds, and deep soil. Succeed with fussy plants, try new and unusual varieties, and learn how to innovatively extend your growing season. With thorough profiles of...

"Eliot is the reason I'm cooking. . . . I've followed that path because Eliot made it possible, and exciting, to farm in the four seasons."-Dan Barber, chef "There is hardly a more well-known or well-respected name among organic farmers than Eliot...

Grapes are the most popular and widely grown fruit in the world. From the tropics to Alaska, grapes will grow successfully in almost every climate. Whether you raise them for fresh eating, or for making wine, juice, or jellies and preserves, the right...

The UK's leading gardening publisher brings you a horticultural handbook to fulfil your every need and seed! Get your gardening gloves on and join the green-fingered journey to growing fruit successfully at home. A must-have volume for first-time...

'Everybody who possibly can ought to grow potatoes...' First published towards the end of the First World War, this charming little book is a love letter to the potato, from its origins in South America, to Sir Francis Drake's travels, the Irish...

Squashes and pumpkins come in many shapes and sizes, and they are particularly tasty when home-grown and eaten soon after harvesting. In this book, the main types are described and illustrated, from marrows and pattypan squashes to butternut squashes and...

If you want to grow your own vegetables but have only a small garden or no garden at all, this is the book for you. Andrea Bellamy provides ingenious ideas on how to get the most produce from a small space whether you have a city garden, a balcony or...

In the history of food, the tomato is a relative newcomer outside its ancestral home in Mesoamerica. And yet, as we devour pizza by the slice, dip French fries in ketchup, delight in a beautiful Bolognese sauce, or savor tomato curries, it would now be...

No matter how small the outdoor space you have, this book will get you started on a new way of growing. Grow up! If you have limited outdoor space and would like to grow your food, this practical illustrated guide will help you transform previously...

Design, plant, and tend a self-sustaining, high-yielding food garden that saves space by growing plants the way nature intended-in layers. Say goodbye to long, straight rows of vegetable plants lined up and waiting for attacks from pests and diseases,...

Transform small spaces to make a big difference.Join activist Tayshan Hayden-Smith on his mission to turn grey, concrete jungles into green sanctuaries – planting seeds not only in the ground but also in minds to bring joy to people, places, and planet...

Forget the farmer's market. Grow your own delicious, organic apples, figs, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries, citrus fruits, and more with Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden. No green thumb required. Even beginners become successful fruit...

Discover the secret to successfully growing trees in your garden.The UK's leading gardening publisher brings you a horticultural handbook to fulfill your every need and seed! Get your gardening gloves on and join the green-fingered journey to growing...

Grow your way to happiness with this practical handbook for a more sustainable life. Whether you have a large country garden or a small backyard in the city, this essential guide to the 'Good Life' will help you on your journey to becoming more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626549548Author R Sanford MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

A new approach to foragingRoger Phillips is the legendary godfather of foraging. Drawing upon decades of experience, his knowledge of wild food is unrivalled and in this richly illustrated book he shares some of his most recently gathered wisdom,...

Kew expert Helena Dove expertly combines horticulture and science in this essential reference on food crops: which part of the plant are we harvesting, how are plants adapted and how does this effect the grower? She demonstrates that by examining the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570672941Author Mark Mathew BraunsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Book Publishing Company

Couch potatoes are idlers, cabbageheads are dunces, swede-bashers are stupid and you may as well give up life if you become a vegetable.A vegetable existence may imply dull monotony, but the humble vegetable has sparked protests, threatened to topple a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780572036300Author Caroline Radula-ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint QuantumPublisher W Foulsham & Co Ltd

Did you know Avocados contain around 20 minerals and vitamins which are essential to good health? But a medium avocado contains more calories than a Mars bar? Who cares? They're delicious and can be used in everything from salad to soup. And make a...

Martin Crawford is an internationally acknowledged expert on growing perennial food systems. It features a selection of the 100 best trees to grow. It includes appendices with lists of suitable trees for specific situations. Martin Crawford has...

Join the food revolution with this beautifully illustrated diary of a year in the vegetable patch. Month by month you will learn how to create a space that gives you fresh, wholesome fruit and veg that tastes far better than anything you can find in the...

Named one of the best gardening books for 2023 by Gardens Illustrated An Irish Times Best Gardening Book 2023 2023 GardenComm Media Awards Silver Laurel Medal of Achievement The ideal, easy-to-use resource for growing healthy, resilient,...

Whether you're looking to farm a balcony, backyard, an allotment or an acre, My Tiny Home Farm is bursting with ingenious ideas and savvy solutions to help you transform any plot or planter into a super smallholding. Practical project ideas for potato...

'Build resilience and create a low maintenance edible haven with this accessible guide.' Kim Stoddart Learn how to create an edible forest garden from canopy to groundcover, modelled after nature - perfect for gardeners and growers at any scale! ...

A practical yet pretty small-farm planner that serves as a guidebook, record keeper, and task tracker for small-scale farmers and backyard gardeners everywhere. From Jill Ragan, author of The Tiny but Mighty Farm, comes the resource backyard farmers,...

A Seasonal Guide for Growing & Cooking Foods Right at Home"Luay makes growing your own food, even if just a small amount, into an achievable endeavor."-Niki Irving of Flourish Flower Farm, flower farmer, florist, author of Growing Flowers#1 New Release...