Kitchen Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Fruit and Vegetables

Kitchen Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Fruit and Vegetables

Simon Akeroyd
$21.99
Publication Date: April 15th, 2013
Publisher:
DK
ISBN:
9781465409614
Pages:
256

Description

Learn how to grow more than seventy types of fruits and vegetables, while finding tips for dealing with weeds, pests, and diseases in this all-in-one gardening guide for growing tastier and healthier fruits and vegetables.

Kitchen Gardening for Beginners takes readers through ten steps to preparing a garden plot, providing need-to-know techniques, such as sowing, planting, feeding, mulching, watering, and weeding, as well as easy projects including making a compost bin and planting a fruit tree.

About the Author

Simon Akeroyd was brought up in a family of professional cooks but discovered at an early age that he preferred growing food to cooking it. He has written for numerous gardening magazines, including the monthly "Allotment Gardener" pages for Grow Your Own magazine. He was previously a garden manager for the Royal Horticultural Society, and has worked at both RHS Wisley and Harlow Carr. He also worked for the BBC as a horticultural researcher and producer. He has an allotment in Surrey and is an avid beekeeper. His books include Shrubs and Small Trees, Lawns and Ground Cover, and Grow Your Own Fruit.

Praise for Kitchen Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Fruit and Vegetables

"Novice vegetables gardeners have a friend in author Simon Akeroyd." – Better Homes and Garden Magazine