A compact, picture-filled guide to growing vegetables and herbs at home, from sowing to harvest
The classic grow-your-own guide
This slim, colorful book is part of Dr. Hessayon's famous Expert series, one of the best-selling gardening series ever published. It covers the vegetables and herbs a home gardener is likely to grow, with clear advice on sowing, planting, care, harvesting and storage, plus a detailed guide to recognizing and solving the pests and problems that affect each crop.
Who will enjoy it
Beginner and experienced home gardeners who want a clear, practical, picture-led guide to growing their own food.
What you will get
A clear, practical and beautifully organized guide that makes growing vegetables and herbs easy, helping you plan, sow, care for and harvest your crops with confidence.
The Vegetable & Herb Expert Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Gardening · Vegetables · Herbs
Length
144 pages · ≈ 4 h
More about this book
Hessayon, a scientist who spent his career in the gardening industry, developed a format that many gardeners swear by: short, clear text, hundreds of color pictures and practical tables, all arranged so that information can be found at a glance. The book opens with the basics of planning a vegetable plot, preparing the soil, feeding, watering, sowing seeds and raising young plants.
The heart of the book is an alphabetical guide to individual crops, from beans, beetroot and cabbages to carrots, lettuces, onions, potatoes, peas and tomatoes, as well as less common vegetables. Each entry gives varieties to try, when and how to sow, how to care for the crop and when to harvest, with a calendar to help with timing. A section on herbs covers favorites such as basil, chives, mint, parsley, rosemary and thyme. The troubleshooting pages, with pictures of pests, diseases and disorders, are especially useful. It is written for gardens in Britain, so some timings need adjusting elsewhere.
Compact, practical and trusted by generations of gardeners, ideal to keep in the shed. About 144 pages in paperback.
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