Vegetables

By re-imagining how we plan and use our gardens, we can all do our bit to support local wildlife, improve our health and help tackle the climate crisis. Positive steps, no matter how small, can really make a difference. This is a practical,...

Work in partnership with nature to nurture your soil for healthy plants and bumper crops - without back-breaking effort!Have you ever wondered how to transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden? Well now you can! By following the simple steps...

GARDEN MEDIA GUILD PRACTICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR Fruit and vegetables have formed a fundamental part of the Scottish diet for thousands of years. This fascinating and practical book explores the history of fruit, vegetable and herb growing in Scotland,...

Project Mushroom is the practical and beautiful guide to growing, displaying, cooking and identifying edible mushrooms. Mushrooms are good for us and for the environment: they are a sustainable, easy-to-grow food source and full of nutritional goodness...

Are you interested in growing your own plants from scratch? This reference book will teach you how to propagate virtually every type of plant.If you're a thrifty gardener who wants more plants for free, then this book is perfect for you! From fruit trees...

An Intuitive Gardening System Built for SuccessDo you dream of walking through your own kitchen garden with baskets full of delicious food you grew yourself? But are you waiting to begin because you think you don't have enough space, sun, time, or...

Gain the scientific knowledge you need to achieve excellence in home food production with this unique and in-depth guide by Tony O'Neill of YouTube's Simplify Gardening. If you are an intermediate or advanced gardener looking to level-up your growing...

Seasonal bakes and tips on growing your own produce by former The Great British Bake Off contestant, Michelle Evans-FecciFormer Bake Off contestant Michelle was known on the show for her flavoursome, colourful bakes and for championing seasonal, locally...

Grow your own vegetable garden with this practical, straightforward gardening guide.There is nothing more fulfilling than growing your own home produce. You don't have to be a seasoned gardener to produce a healthy, flourishing garden - all you need is a...

Winner of the Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year Award 2022 From the creator of the wildly popular website 'Vertical Veg' and with over 200k people in his online community of growers, comes the complete guide to growing delicious fruit,...

"Brimming with ingenuity, hope, and eminently practical advice, The Winter Harvest Handbook is an indispensable contribution."-Michael Pollan "Useful, practical, sensible, and enlightening information for the home gardener."-Martha Stewart With The...

An infallible guide to vegetable growing for gardeners with little space but big ambitions. It's time to get your hands dirty!This gardening book will help you learn how to grow, nurture, and harvest more than 50 types of fruits and vegetables. The...

DK brings you an all-encompassing horticultural handbook to fulfil your every leaf and legume! Get your gardening gloves on, as best-selling author Huw Richards takes you on a green-fingered journey to be an undefeated veg-grower!A recent study...

Start growing your own food at home! Whether you're an urban gardener, a first-time vegetable grower, or have your own allotment, this illustrated guide takes the uncertainty out of your harvest with clear, reliable gardening advice for every month of...

A fresh approach to gardening by bestselling author and the nation's favourite gardener Monty Don.'Think of your garden like a meal. When you select a recipe, you're choosing it based on inclination, experience and circumstance. Making a garden, big or...

Forest Gardening or Agroforestry is a way of growing edible crops with nature doing most of the work. Modelled on young woodland, a wide range of crops is grown in vertical layers. Species are chosen for their beneficial effects on each other, creating a...

A Sunday Times bestsellerEven great gardeners like Monty Don are always learning and always experimenting.The Complete Gardener brings you right up to date on how Monty gardens today.This extensively revised new edition covers what Monty believes are the...

If the desire to start a garden has been planted in your heart, then this essential guide is a wonderful companion to accompany you on your new adventure!If you're not sure of the first steps to take, this handbook takes the anxiety out of plotting and...

Welcome to Rekha's Kitchen Garden: a North London allotment that is bursting with the very best seasonal produce all year round. With more than 30 years' experience as both an amateur and professional gardener, there is no better guide to home-grown...

Dig into gardening, no matter the size of your space.This innovative gardening book will show you how to maximise even the smallest of gardening space so you can grow fruit and vegetables, in abundance, at home! This gardening guide for beginners...

Whatever the size of your garden or allotment, you can grow your own vegetables. Even if you only have a balcony or a small paved area outside your kitchen, you can grow more than you ever thought possible in pots, containers and raised beds.Experienced...

Using seasonal checklists and Charles Dowding's expert no-dig advice, this month-by-month journal helps you plan bumper harvests the no-dig way. From tomatoes to basil, carrots to coriander, Charles Dowding, the UK's leading no-dig guru shows you how to...

Get the most out of every bit of balcony space to easily grow your own sustainable, organic, and tasty food.Do you love having a balcony but aren't sure how you can use it as a space to grow? Do you feel that being a few stories up in a building stops...

Zero-cost, low effort and a long term solution to your fresh produce needs! Huw Richards set himself a challenge - to be self-sufficient by growing his own fruit and veg for free for a year. He succeeded, and now wants to help you do the same.Grow your...

How to Grow Perennial Vegetables gives comprehensive advice on all types of perennial vegetables, from ground-cover plants and coppiced trees to plants for bog gardens and edible woodland plants. Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow. Whereas...

A Year Full of Veg is a month-by-month gardening guide to growing the best seasonal veg, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Year Full of Flowers. With her wealth of experience, Sarah Raven shares the most reliable and bountiful varieties to...

***RHS Grow Your Own Crops in Pots offers everyone the chance to grow their own food, however small the outdoor space on offer. With this book and all the expert advice of urban gardener and author Kay Maguire, you can turn the tiniest space into a...

The Pig is a collection of restaurants with rooms in Hampshire, Devon, Dorset and Somerset - and soon in Kent, West Sussex and Cornwall. Now, everyone can enjoy The Pig from the comfort of their own homes. Among the pages of The Pig you will find an...

You won't have to get up in the middle of the night to sow your carrots! Country folk - and repeat buyers of this book, which has been published annually for over thirty years - know that planning their work in harmony with the rhythms of the moon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916092044Author Charles DowdingFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint No Dig GardenPublisher No Dig GardenWeight(grams) 895gDimensions(mm) 247mm * 207mm *...

Discover a new, more dynamic and durable way to grow food in the extremes of our changing climate in The Climate Change-Resilient Vegetable Garden.Whether it's water-usage restrictions, extended heat waves, disastrous flooding, "super weeds," or...

An informative and inspirational guide aimed at anyone who fancies giving chilli growing a go.From 'Hungarian Hot Wax' to 'Red Savina', and 'Scotch Bonnet' to 'Elephant's Trunk', chillies come in dozens of shapes, colours and degrees of spiciness - from...

TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Beautifully written' Irish Times'This is a rich rewarding book.' The Times"We wanted to live in a place that could...

An allotment can be a source of abundant fresh fruit and vegetables for the home, as well as an oasis of calm for all the family to enjoy, but taking one on and learning how to grow your own can be an intimidating prospect. Alan Titchmarsh makes...

This book is aimed at the majority of us who live in terraced houses, high rise flats, town houses and semi-detached properties with a small garden and often nowhere to grow but the patio. It shows how to make the most of pots and planters; how to plan...

Celebrating 40 years of the Ballymaloe Cookery SchoolWinner - Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Best World Gourmand Cookbook 2017Growing your own food is exciting but, when it comes to knowing how to make the most of your produce, it can be daunting. In...

This sumptuous book starts with a history of the cottage garden. A chapter on planning and design introduces the main styles and the familiar features of the cottage garden are then covered in turn - from hedges and fences, to paths, arches, furniture...

"Growing some fruit, veg and herbs is one of the most life-enhancing, practical and enriching things that anyone with a scrap of land can ever do." - Monty Don Unrivalled gardening wisdom from Britain's favourite gardener. Written as he talks, this is...

This perennial gardening classic gives you everything you need to create and manage a bountiful and beautiful allotment with just half an hour's work a day! The Royal Horticultural Society The Half Hour Allotment (first published in 2005) has been a...

When it comes to fresh vegetables, nothing comes close to growing your own - but where to start? For those of us that crave the crisp taste of home-grown tomatoes, peppers, courgettes and more but lack the crucial experience and know-how, it can be...