The Allotment Keeper’s Handbook by Jane Perrone is a useful, down to earth guide to growing your own food. Packed with invaluable advice - from how to choose an allotment and test its soil to knowing your own chickweed from your chicory - it offers an enjoyable and inspiring shortcut through the trials, errors and frustrations of starting a vegetable patch.
A practical guide on how to plan, plant and maintain garden borders. Full of inspiring projects from planted double borders to a narrow town garden, it contains practical techniques and principles which can be used to achieve coordinated and sophisticated results.
This essential guide to gardening has detailed illustrations showing you how to approach many garden tasks, from the basics of digging to the skills of propagation. It explains how to tackle a raw new garden or tame an overgrown one, allowing you to grow fruit, vegetables and flowers successfully. It has a month-by-month breakdown of things to do, plus hints, tips and advice.
Garden Answers magazine has something for every garden and every gardener. It provides answers and advice for all your gardening questions. It’s also full of inspirational and informational articles - a must have for any keen gardener.