The Kitchen Gardener: Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg Review

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(More customer reviews)We saw this book while travelling in the UK, but it was too heavy to carry back to Australia so we waited until our return home to purchase it. This is a fantastic all-round book on growing your own. It provides a detailed description of fruit and vegetable plants plus how to look after them from sowing the seed to ongoing maintenance. Alan Titchmarsh has a lovely easy to read style. The photographs are fantastic too. Just bear in mind that if you are buying it for Australian conditions - the seasons are different obviously (i.e. June/July is summer in the UK/winter in Australia) - so all the annual charts provided need to be re-thought. However, I would recommend this beautiful book to any keen 'Kitchen Gardener'.

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Allotments with 10-year waiting lists; fruit and veg seeds outselling those of flowers-Britain is growing a passion for home produce and the time is right for the nation's favorite gardener to provide the definitive book on the subject. Alan's comprehensive guide will tell you everything you could possibly want or need to know about fruit and veg and how to grow it, including herbs, baby veg, salads, every-day fruits, plus gourmet or unusual varieties, and how to fit them into today's stylish small gardens. As well as providing the key facts needed to yield good results and what to do when things go wrong, the text is sprinkled with Alan's personal observations, anecdotes, culinary tips, and quirky historical uses. The book takes a very practical approach, starting from scratch for the benefit of anyone who's never grown their own before, but is also ideal for those with some experience who might be growing edibles in a new way-perhaps in a small space that needs to look attractive, or on a new allotment. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 250 photographs and artworks, this inspirational and authoritative fruit and veg bible from the UK's best-selling and most influential gardener will become a classic in the genre.