Get Started with Your Allotment 2010 (Teach Yourself General)

by Geoff Stokes (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $3.77

  Is this the right book for me?

  - Are you keen to get an allotment, but don't know where to start?
  - Would you like help to successfully grow your own produce?
  - Are you thinking about keeping livestock on your allotment?

  Get Started with Your Allotment is written by the UK's leading Allotment Society and designed specifically for all those new to allotments. It will take you step-by-step through the joys of allotment gardening, right from the very first stages of finding an allotment through to keeping livestock.

  It is designed for both beginners and those with some experience, and has plenty of information for those who wish to involve their children and family members in their new pursuit. With a complete guide to the tools needed, the ideal crops to grow, the soil conditions, troubleshooting and plenty of legal advice, it is the most complete guide available from the country's most experienced and trusted source of allotment wisdom.
  
  
  Get Started with your Allotment includes:

  Chapter 1: What is an allotment?
  Why have an allotment?
  How much produce can be grown on a plot?
  What costs are involved in running an allotment plot?
  How much time is required to manage a plot?

  Chapter 2: Obtaining plot
  Who provides allotment plots
  Costs
  Allotment tenancies

  Chapter 3: Getting started
  Clearing a neglected plot
  Check your soil type
  Organic and inorganic matter
  Planning your plot
  Working the soil

  Chapter 4: Tools, techniques and resources
  Tools
  Composing
  Bonfires
  Water
  
  Chapter 5: What to grow
  Which crops
  Seeds
  Vegetable varieties
  Herbs
  Fruit varieties
  
  Chapter 6: Allotment buildings and other structure
  Sheds
  Greenhouses and polytunnels
  Cold frames and cloches
  Propagating frames
  Fruit cages
  Site and plot security

  Chapter 7: Children and allotments
  Getting children involved

  Chapter 8: Livestock and wildlife on allotments
  Livestock
  Wildlife
  Organic or inorganic?

  Chapter 9: Allotment and gardening associations
  The benefits of forming an allotment association
  The essentials of forming an association
  The committee
  The first formal meeting
  Joint activities
  Self-management

  Chapter 10: The allotment gardening year
  
  Chapter 11: Recipes

  
  
  

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

  - Personal insights, tips, and summaries throughout the book
  - Extension articles online
  - Every book gives you one, five and ten-minute bites of learning to get you started