Grow Your Own Vegetables

by Joy Larkcom

Overview

This revised, updated and expanded edition of the classic guide to growing your own vegetables contains everything you need to know to create a highly-productive vegetable plot.

Covering every aspect of vegetable gardening from preparing soil to manures, composts and fertilizers, from growing techniques to protection, pests, from diseasesand weeds to making good use of space, this is a comprehensive guide to ensuring the best results from your garden or allotment.

With cultivation information for over 100 vegetables, including site and soil requirements, cultivation, pests and diseases, and cultivars, this illustrated handbook is a must for vegetable gardeners of all levels and experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711219632
Publisher:	Frances Lincoln Adult
Publication date:	08/28/2006
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	961,367
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.12(d)

About the Author

Joy Larkcom is Britain's most respected vegetable garden maker and gardening writer. She has contributed to many magazines and newspapers, radio and TV programmes and has lectured all over the world. Her accolades include the Garden Writer of the Year award (three times); Lifetime Achievement Award from the Garden Writers' Guild in 2003, and the Veitch Memorial Medal for horticulture, the RHS's highest honour, in 1993. Her other titles for Frances Lincoln are Oriental Vegetables (ISBN 9780711236128), Grow Your Own Vegetables (ISBN 9780711219632) and The Organic Salad Garden (ISBN 9780711222045).

Editorial Reviews

As any allotmenteer will tell you, this is the GYO bible, by the Delia Smith of the vegetable garden

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