Grow Your Own Veg - Carol Klein

This book was not bought with any view to self sufficiency or to assist in these times of credit crunch but to facilitate in growing a few veggies for the kitchen and to educate myself and my daughter in what it takes to grow the fruit and veg we take for granted on the shelves of Tescos. There are two sections to this book, this first section is preperation and techniques. This deals with growing in a small space to maximise what you grow, knowing your plot deals with how to asses your garden to see what sort of soil you have and how the weather affects it. The next chapter is prepearing your garden and gives advise on how to plan the layout of your garden ...  Read the complete review

These days you can barely turn on the television without being bombarded with programmes talking about growing your own vegetables, if its not that Hugh Fearnley-Curly Hair, or Oliver Twist spouting on about the wonders of home grown (as his hired gardener slaves away). Its Gardners World giving away free seeds (search BBC digin) and messages to the same effect preaching the wonders of home grown food (and the cost savings). So what's it all about then, is it really very different from Supermarket stuff, well my advice to the uninitiated is to go out buy this book, and get growing! Our family had an allotment, and the difference between homegrown and ...  Read the complete review

Imagine real tomatoes from your garden that have not been made to artificially turn red by pumping a gas in the glasshouse, and not been grown in water only to have the nitrates it need to be added by a machine :( This review is of the Hardback book "Grow Your Own Veg". Grow Your Own Veg was shown on BBC 2, and is part of the Gardener's World Series. The series follows Carol Klein on her mission to start growing vegetables in her garden, the series had some wonderful moments including Carol actually hand feeding a robin that has been nesting in her garden for some years. The series showed Carol right from the beginning, planning her vegetable garden, ...  Read the complete review