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The Great Vegetable Plot - Sarah Raven


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The Great Vegetable Plot - Sarah Raven

 
Description: ISBN 0563488174 / Author: Sarah Raven / Genre: House / Garden / Publisher: BBC Books / "The Great Vegetable Plot" is Sarah Raven's new ... more
The Great Vegetable Plot - Sarah Raven ... guide to growing vegetables for all keen cooks and any level of gardener. In it, she demonstrates how to plan and plant your plot, recommends the best vegetables to grow and eat and gives clear instructions on how to cultivate them using minimum input to get maximum reward. Divided into 3 sections, the book shows you what and what not to grow and the basic principles and techniques to help you achieve this. It is a landmark Gardeners' World branded book, bringing the principles of simplicity and speed to the vegetable plot as well as including delicious food pictures to illustrate why it's worth growing your own. Illustrated with over 250 photographs by the award-winning photographer Jonathan Buckley, the book is a stylish and practical guide to vegetable gardening, and a companion volume to Sarah's previous title, "Grow Your Own Cut Flowers".

Newest Review: ... too. We moved into our current house about a year ago and we have always had an ambition to develop a vegetable plot in the ... more

 ... garden, partly to save money on produce from the supermarket, but also because it tastes better fresh etc. It is also an activity that can be shared with my two-year old son, Callum who can hopefully associate "growing 'egtables" with what ends up on his plate. Last year, without this book, I pretty much threw lots of different seeds onto the soil and hoped for the best. I didn't come out of it too badly, but certainly didn't produce much of anything to write home about. This book is full of usefu...more

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Premium Review The Great Vegetable Plot - Sarah Raven: A feast for the eyes and hopefully the tummy too (550 words)
by - written on 18/02/08 (Very useful, 127 readings)
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This book is an inspirational guide to growing your own vegetables, either in your garden, in an allotment, or even in containers and window boxes. The book is a hardcover, and is very shiny and glossy. It could easily risk becoming a coffee table book, that is never properly put into practice, but I have certainly made sure its got its work cut out. The Great Vegetable Plot is a very useful book, that you can either read cover-to-cover (as I did on this occasion) or dip in and out of when you need inspiration or further guidance. It is packed with lots of beautiful photographs and diagrams of the sorts of things you can achieve in your garden, and ...  Read the complete review

 

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