Digging Deep in the Garden: Book One

by John Walker

Overview

"John Walker is asking the sort of questions you don't usually find asked in gardening magazines."

A celebrity gardener's 'wobble' over climate chaos... the effect genetically modified crops might have on our gardens and allotments... how adopting a vegan-organic approach can make growing more compassionate... why pesticides must be consigned to the history books.

In this diverse, lively and thought-provoking collection of essays about gardening and its relationship with nature, John Walker digs deep into gardening's subsoil to challenge assumptions, raise awareness and encourage us to ponder how what we do on our plots affects our shared living world.

This first book of John's earth-friendly garden writing, originally published in Organic Gardening magazine as his popular and long-running series 'Digging Deep', includes 'Time to power down?', which won the Garden Media Guild Environmental Award in 2007.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780993268335
Publisher:	John Walker
Publication date:	03/01/2016
Series:	Volume 1 , #1
Pages:	66
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

John Walker is an award-winning gardening and environmental author, writer, blogger and publisher with 40 years' experience in practical gardening, teaching and the garden media. He grew up in the countryside, caught the gardening bug while still at school, and trained at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Cambridge University Botanic Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, where he was awarded the Kew Diploma in Horticulture. He is also a qualified teacher. John was features/deputy editor of Garden Answers magazine and contributing editor of Kitchen Garden. John writes about organic, earth-friendly gardening for national newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and the Royal Horticultural Society's journal The Garden. His recent book How to Create an Eco Garden: The Practical Guide to Greener, Planet-friendly Gardening was shortlisted for the 2012 Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year. He also wrote The Bed and Border Planner and Weeds: An Organic, Earth-friendly Guide to their Identification, Use and Control, edited A Gardeners' Guide to Annuals, and contributed to the Garden Organic Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. John has won the Garden Media Guild Environmental Award three times, and has been shortlisted for Gardening Journalist of the Year three times.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1 Climate of denial; 2 Gardens in the air; 3 Planet patio ;4 Growing louder; 5 Connection failure; 6 Coming out on climate change; 7 Organic gardening: the end; 8 Great expectations; 9 A deeper shade of green; 10 Time to power down?; 11 Green resolutions; 12 Make pesticides history; 13 Dear President...; 14 Relative merits; A good read?; About John Walker