Teach Yourself Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg 2010 (Teach Yourself General)

by Michael Thurlow (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $3.36

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  Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg will guarantee success for anyone wishing to grow fresh produce in any patch of earth, be it garden, allotment or series of containers. This book gives specific instructions on when, where and how to grow and maintain various fruit and vegetables, from the more basic to the exotic, without the use of chemicals. It includes an A-Z list of plants together with ease of growth ratings and an approach that welcomes involvement from the whole family. Whatever your plans for home-grown fruit and vegetables this is the essential guide.
  
  
  Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg includes:

  Chapter 1: Tools
  What you will need

  Chapter 2: Soil types
  Soil pH and what it means to the gardener
  
  Chapter 3: Soil preparation
  Soil profile
  Cultivation

  Chapter 4: Manure, compost and fertilizers
  Sources of manure
  Garden compost
  Leaf mould
  Worm compost
  Green manure
  Fertilizers
  
  Chapter 5: Seed sowing and plant raising
  Sowing in pots and trays indoors
  Sowing seed outdoors
  Transplanting in the open ground

  Chapter 6: Watering
  Under glass
  Cloches
  Outside
  Conservation of water
  
  Chapter 7: Growing in containers and raised beds
  Growing medium
  Containers
  Deep raised beds
  Growing bags

  Chapter 8: Planning your garden
  Crop rotations
  What size of plot do I need?

  Chapter 9: Weeds
  What are weeds?
  Controlling weeds
  
  Chapter 10: Vegetable varieties
  Choosing your vegetables
  Brassicas
  Legumes
  Roots - carrot family
  Roots - onion family
  Others
  Monthly list of produce available

  Chapter 11: Common pests and diseases
  Potatoes
  Carrots
  Other root vegetables
  Onions
  Other vegetables

  Chapter 12: Herbs
  The cultivation of herbs
  Descriptive list and cultivation notes

  Chapter 13: Fruit
  Growing fruit
  Soft fruit
  Top fruit

  
  

  Learn effortlessly with an easy-to-read page design and new added features:

  - Shows you what to plant and when
  - Gives you tips and techniques for success
  - Offers a full list of plants, from A to Z
  - Brand new edition, with personal insights, tips, energising self-tests and summaries throughout the book
  - Extension articles online
  - Every book gives you one, five and ten-minute bites of learning to get you started