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 Proper User Guide for a Veg Plot May 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Too many gardening authors take time out to wax lyrical about seasons and the joys of blackbirds and dew on your runner canes. Their books end up as a decent afternoon's read, but difficult to use when you're trying to work out what's going wrong with your kohlrabi.
This book is different. Veg are listed alphabetically with clear sections on selecting varieties, planting, looking after, harvesting and cooking, with a troubleshooting guide covering disease, pests, storage and the like.
No nonsense, everything you need and easy to find.
The bees knees... May 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having just started with a vagetable patch in the garden, I was looking for, in effect an "idiot's guide" to vegetable growing (believe me, I needed it !) - this book is marvellous - helpful illustrations,easy to follow layout & packed with information on cultivation, preperation, eating, protecting from pests & diseases, the whole lot.
The herb section is by no means as comprehensive as the veg part of the book, but it has inspired me to grow my own selection of herbs (in one of those very attractive "ornamental" wooden wheelbarrows,my wife's aunty got us for Christmas - bless) & hopefully add something a bit different, interesting & above all, tasty to the garden.
I bought this at the same time as a far glossier, bigger (& more expensive !) book I got from the garden centre - this book beats the more expensive competition hands down. A really great investment, made me burst with horticultural enthusiasm & feel like Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's cousin.
 Vegetable & Herb Expert by D.G.Hessayon review April 23, 2007
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have always found the Expert Garden range of books to be my most valuable gardening books - clear, simple and easy to find what you want.
Sadly they have not updated to metric units so I can no longer buy them as presents for budding gardeners, since the modern generation only know metric and there is nothing more discouraging than to use a book you cannot understand. I hope they will rectify this before long so that I can continue using them.
Great help to a novice grower November 5, 2006
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
I got this book when I decided to get my allotment, and I found and still do a great help.
Fantastic pictures are illustrated with the information that goes with them.
The book starts at the beginning which helps if you're a complete novice to vegetable growing.
"Getting started" covers digging and preparing your land, what is the best seeds to buy and how to sow them. This section also covers the importance of crop rotation.
Other section covers the growing of vegetables, covers greenhouse growing, border planting and cover pot and windowsill planting.
Looking after vegetables section covers the dreaded weeding. But it also covers feeding, mulching and watering of the plants; also a section is covered on spotting and dealing with pests.
The book has a section about unusual types of vegetables and how to grow them.
There is a good section on vegetable troubles, how to spot and treat before it starts to do damage to other crops.
Tips on how to preserve and ripen your vegetables and of course to eat them.
This is a great book and if you're thinking of growing your own vegetables like I have done this year, this books it a must
Growing into an expert October 31, 2006
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Just moved from London with a shady patio to a country acre, with greenhouse and allotment sized veg patch - and not had to buy a vegetable since March. I was worried gardening was one of those things you couldn't do by book-learning, but of the four tomes I picked up, this is the only one I would use. Brilliant, and inspiring confidence straight away - I'm buying the rest of the series!
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