"Martin_Stevens" wrote in message
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Hi,
Suggestions, please, for a textbook to comprehensively cover vegetable
growing for a new (coming to the end of my first season) allotment
holder.
I've had some good successes and a few failures and learnt a
tremendous amount but I'd like a single source of reference that has
good depth on everything I might need to know - and on things that I
might not need to know but will find very useful to know. A text that
covers everything and assumes a starting knowledge of zero would be
good, and with a 'want to at least try to be organic' bias.
ISBN numbers for suggested texts would be very useful, if you're
suggesting a book you own and can find such information.


"Practical Gardening and Food Production In Pictures" by Richard Sudell.
Available secondhand from Abe Books for a couple of quid, plus P&P at about
£2. Published around 1940. An extremely useful book if you know nothing
about gardening. A bookseller in Barnstaple is selling this at the moment
via the Abe Books website.

"Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening" by J.I. Rodale and staff. 12th Ed.
1969. An American book, but very useful if you're an organic gardener.

s.