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tempy 14-09-2003 04:22 PM

book on vegetable gardening?
 
Can anyone suggest a good book for vegetable gardening?



[email protected] 14-09-2003 07:02 PM

book on vegetable gardening?
 
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:17:53 +0100, "tempy"
wrote:

Can anyone suggest a good book for vegetable gardening?

The Vegetable and Herb Expert, Dr. D.G. Hessayon, Expert Books, ISBN 0
903505 46 0, available everywhere, about 6 quid.

Grow Your Own Vegetables, Joy Larkcom, Francis Lincoln, ISBN 0 7112
1963 X, about a tenner.

I don't think any others are needed (but don't let that stop you, it
hasn't stopped me!).

The Organic Salad Garden, also by Joy Larkcom and published by Francis
Lincoln, is also good and is very well illustrated with real
photographs, but the edition I have is a hardback and was a little
expensive (particularly compared with her GYOVs) at about 17 quid.

As a relative beginner myself I have found these books very helpful
but something else that you can do, which I keep telling myself I
should do more often, is visit gardens where they do it properly to
get some inspiration. We visited the Kitchen Garden at Tatton Park
today. Although there was naturally a lot of bare ground, partly
because of the time of year and partly because they are still getting
it back into production, it was still an inspiration to see how the
stuff that I try to grow is supposed to look.
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Mike Tickle 14-09-2003 09:43 PM

book on vegetable gardening?
 
The Vegetable and Herb Expert, Dr. D.G. Hessayon

I can second that - it is a really good book - hoping it will do me well
next year

Mike



Christopher Norton 15-09-2003 01:02 PM

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The Vegetable and Herb Expert, Dr. D.G. Hessayon


I can second that - it is a really good book - hoping it will do me well
next year


Mike



Good for me too! I have a couple of others but this one seems best value
really.

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