Hot Beds: How to grow early crops using an age-old technique: Second edition

A practical guide to cultivating out-of-season vegetables in small spaces, using the age-old technique of growing in hot beds.

The ancient method of hot-bed gardening, once favoured by both the Romans and the Victorians, uses the natural heat generated by decomposing organic matter to grow out-of-season vegetables in small spaces.

In this practical guide, hot-bed pioneer Jack First shows how to adapt and modernise this age-old method to suit today's gardens. With just stable manure (or eco-fr...