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Quick help with choosing gardening books please
Hi,
I had asked opinion about the Gardeners' Book Society before. It seems that this time, there are some good offers to me. Though one of my bookshelves had collapsed due to the heavy weight of gardening books and magazines, I still prefer them than online sources as my serious short-sightedness now disagrees me to work on computer for more than half an hour each time. Otherwise, I may have problem of dryness and sore. 8-( I would like to have some good reference on general, organic and kitchen gardening, help me to recognise plants in my garden. As my husband will retire from being a university warden in the coming academic year, we will move back to the house where we have used a quarter of it as a vegetable garden, I would like to get some more ideas on how to transform the other parts of the garden. The choices a 1. Free: RHS Pest & Diseases 2. Optional for 10 days reply: RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants (ąG5.0 - ąG20.0) I would like to choose: 3. RHS Encyclopedia of gardening (ąG35.0 - ąG4.99) And 3 out of the 4 below (0f course there are other choices but I don't think I want them at the moment) 4. Design & Planting by Andrew Mclndoe (ąG22.5 - 99p) will be in the market in this month, so I couldn't find any book review on it. Anyone know about the author? 5. The Allotment Book by Andy Clevely (ąG17.99 - 99p) 6. The complete book of vegetables herbs & fruit by Mathew Biggs, etc. (ąG30.0 - ąG7.5) 7. They Encyclopedia of planting companions by Tony Lord, etc (ąG35.0 - ąG7.5) I am not sure whether the content of 5 & 6 will overlap a lot or not, or the same between 4 & 7. I would like to read opinion not only on the content but also on the font. I think my eyes can still cope with font 10 of Times New Roman but not tiny print now. Thank you for any opinion in advance. CK -- With regards, Chi King Chi King TSANG IT tutor School of Education and Lifelong Learning University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
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Quick help with choosing gardening books please
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writes Hi, I would like to read opinion not only on the content but also on the font. I think my eyes can still cope with font 10 of Times New Roman but not tiny print now. Thank you for any opinion in advance. CK Not sure if it helps CK but there is a device that you place over the book page and transfers the text to your screen so that you can see it as large as you need. The best books I ever used for practical purposes were Home Growing edited by Anne Bonar, largish type and easy to understand pictures, very comprehensive. And a very old copy of The Gardening Year by the Reader's Digest which has smaller types but covered all things in the garden and did it month by month as well. Some books are lovely to own and look at and use as reference for looking up stuff but I personally find when it comes to actually going into the garden and sowing seeds or whatever I actually drag out my two old books. What about ordering the books first from the local library to see if they are of any use? When I joined the gardening book club I ordered two of the RHS encyclopaedias and raffled one for the local Gardening Club! Janet -- Janet Tweedy Amersham Gardening Association http://www.amersham-gardening.net |
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