The Kitchen Gardener

by David Pople (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.90

  The Kitchen Gardener shows how to grow vegetables and fruit in such a way that, far from detracting from the look of your garden, they can actually enhance its appearance. The author shows how the kitchen garden can be designed on ornamental lines to avoid the dull, utilitarian look of a vegetable plot or allotment. By means of detailed layouts the author shows how practical yet pleasing designs for the kitchen garden can be achieved. Other topics covered in the first part of the book - the techniques section - include soil preparation, seed thinning, sowing, transplanting and winter storage. The second part compromises an A-Z crop guides for vegetables, herbs and fruit and the last part compromises appendices on vegetable spacings, sowing times and planting times.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.40

  This guide shows how to grow vegetables and fruit in such a way that they enhance the appearance of your garden rather than detract from it. The garden can be designed on ornamental lines to avoid the dull, utilitarian look of a vegetable plot or allotment. By means of detailed layouts, the author shows how practical yet pleasing designs for the kitchen garden can be achieved. Other topics covered in the first part of the book - the section on techniques - include soil preparation, seed-thinning, sowing, transplanting and winter storage. The second part comprises A-Z crop guides for vegetables, herbs and fruit and the last part contains appendices on vegetable spacings, sowing and planting times. It shows the reader how to grow vegetables and fruit in an ornamental way, so that they are integrated into the overall design. All the main, practical aspects of vegetable and fruit-growing for the kitchen-garden are covered in this text.