Grow Your Own Veg book

Nikki

Vegetables, herbs and Fruit by Matthew Biggs, Jekka McVicar and Bob Flowerdew is a really good book for info on growing things. It goes into planting, harvesting, maintenance, uses of the plants, crop rotation and how to plan your garden/allotment, pests and diseases and how to combat them, also companion planting which we are going to try this year. We borrowed it from a friend but ended up investing in our own copy it's that useful. Got mine from play.

Tibbyterrier

Hi There,
The Book People are very good. You don't have to buy so many books to be a member. Just order what you want when you want. However, you can build up points by ordering and then get a free book when you have enough. I've been with them for ages and never had any problems.

tight_jock

I thought the series was a bit short on practical advice personally.
I`ve picked up numerous veg. books from boot sales and charity shops with much more practical advice than was shown in the series.

Kitchen Garden A step by step guide PUB Coluor Library Books
ISBN 1-85833-520-5
&
Food From Your Garden
(All you need to know about growing, cooking and preserving fruit and veg)
PUB Readers Digest 1977( ! )

are both brilliant and cost me 50p each.

TJ

Caroline2CV

big_pimple_0000 wrote:

One dissappointing thing for me was that it did not include instructions on how to gather seed from the different plant.

"Growing from Seed" includes
pg 26 Collecting seeds from plants/Easy Seedheads & Capsules
pg 27 Extracting Fresh seeds/Drying Pods & Capsules
pg 28 Separating seeds from chaff/Extracting seeds from Dried Berries
pg 29 Obtaining seed from viable Cones/Extracting seeds (a) from fleshy fruit (b) by soaking

Cost £4.99 (or try your Library)
RHS Practicals Series, publisher Dorling Kindersely
ISBN 0-7513-3722-6.

tight_jock

Caroline2CV wrote:

"Growing from Seed" includes
pg 26 Collecting seeds from plants/Easy Seedheads & Capsules
pg 27 Extracting Fresh seeds/Drying Pods & Capsules
pg 28 Separating seeds from chaff/Extracting seeds from Dried Berries
pg 29 Obtaining seed from viable Cones/Extracting seeds (a) from fleshy fruit (b) by soaking

Cost £4.99 (or try your Library)
RHS Practicals Series, publisher Dorling Kindersely
ISBN 0-7513-3722-6.

Another good book. Most of the Dorling Kindersley gardening books are excellent. ( I used to sell them!!)

sal

I like Allotment Gardening: An Organic Guide for Beginners by Susan Berger, managed to get it from the local library and renewed it several times last year. It was also on offer from the Book People recently.

Not sure about the programme mentioned, no need for all the history and pretty music, let's have a bit more veg gardening!

Sal

tight_jock

sal wrote:

I like Allotment Gardening: An Organic Guide for Beginners by Susan Berger, managed to get it from the local library and renewed it several times last year. It was also on offer from the Book People recently.

Not sure about the programme mentioned, no need for all the history and pretty music, let's have a bit more veg gardening!

Sal

HEAR HEAR
:j :j Just show the viewers how to grow veg. No fancy camera angles or ( as you say ) pretty music, just information .:j

Noah'strolly

sal wrote:

I like Allotment Gardening: An Organic Guide for Beginners by Susan Berger, managed to get it from the local library and renewed it several times last year. It was also on offer from the Book People recently.

Not sure about the programme mentioned, no need for all the history and pretty music, let's have a bit more veg gardening!

Sal

I got it from the book people before Christmas and find it very useful and DH got me the allotment book by Andi Clevely for Christmas (I got my plot in late October so haven't been able to plant much yet) the latter has some nice colour picture, which I like. I also watch allotment on the discovery chanel - i'm afraid I'm not a written insructions kind of person, I like to be show how to do things - thank goodness the old boys down the allotments are always keen to demonstrate!

Anwen_2

I've had a look at the book in a shop and it seems fairly detailed, at least compared to the program. The prog is good in some ways in that it does convey a sense of enthusiasm and excitement (sometimes a little too much excitement... I think that lady's going to explode with joy at any moment!) for the subject, but there really isn't an awful lot of information or practical tips. It's... well, it's sort of a bit like an infomercial for the book, isn't it?