Grow Vegetables - Alan Buckingham New softcover book Grow Your Own Food

GROW VEGETABLES

by ALAN BUCKINGHAM

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New softcover book with dustjacket, 352 pages. First published 2007 by DK Books, this all new, fully revised edition published 2017. Superb full-colour photography throughout.

How to grow veg all year round in your very own vegie patch - information for gardens, courtyards, verandahs, balconies and community gardens.

Enjoy growing more than 80 types of delicious vegetables, salads and herbs, including rare and heritage varieties. The taste of just-picked, homegrown vegetables is unbeatable. Whether you have a large garden or room for just a couple of pots, Grow Vegetables has advice on the easiest-to-grow and most prolific vegetables for your site and conditions. With step-by-step sequences, planting calendars, care tips and gardener's know-how, Grow Vegetables has all the practical advice you need to raise your own crops.

Crunchy young carrots, crisp lettuce and the sweetest tomatoes could be there for the picking in your own garden. Growing your own food means savings and deliciously healthy meals. This book shows just how easy it is to manage your garden month-by-month to harvest fresh produce all year round. Learn what to sow, when to sow it and how to care for your vegies. It couldn't be easier. Alan Buckingham shows now, with a little planning and preparation, simple tools and the most basic gardening ability, you can transform your backyard (and front yard too!) into a home-grown haven. For tasty, delicious fruit and vegetables that haven't travelled halfway around the world, you can't beat home grown produce from your own garden. Here's how to ensure your plot provides fresh, healthy food all year round.

Follow clear month-by-month advice on what to do in your garden and how to do it. Pick up time saving tips and techniques on everything from pruning to dealing with pests. There's clear guidance on when to sow, plant, and harvest for excellent results. Get more from your vegie patch with this indispensable companion.

Completely and authoritatively adapted for Australian conditions and Australian gardens. The Australian consultant for this book was Jennifer Wilkinson, gardening writer for The Age.

About the Authors

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Alan Buckingham is a freelance writer. He has over 20 years experience in illustrated publishing, both as an editor and as an author, and has worked on countless information books, interactive CD-ROMS and websites. In recent years he has written chiefly about gardening and photography, his two main interests. Grow Vegetables is illustrated with many of his own photographs. Every summer he grows far more fruit and vegetables than he and his family could ever hope to eat, and should he ever be given the opportunity to have his time again, he would happily swap a career in publishing for one as a head gardener. His new book, Grow Fruit, is also available - click here for more information.

Jennifer Wilkinson is an Australian freelance writer and gardener living on a farm in Dargo, Victoria, where she grows a wide variety of fruit and vegetables. She has written six books on gardening and horticulture, is editor of Australian Nutgrower, the nut industry journal, and regularly contributes articles and photographs to the Age gardening sections. Jennifer was a co-consultant on RHS Fruit and Vegetable Gardening in Australia and a consultant on Grow Vegetables for DK Books