Pippa Greenwood's Organic Kitchen Garden - Softcover

Greenwood, Pippa

9780751308051: Pippa Greenwood's Organic Kitchen Garden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751308056 ISBN 13: 9780751308051

Publisher: DK, 1999

Throughout the summer thousands of Gardeners' World viewers in Britain will become hooked on watching Pippa Greenwood transform an unpromising patch of bare soil into a productive and appetizing fruit and vegetable plot. Pippa's Organic Kitchen Garden is the book that tells viewers just how she does it. Furthermore it fills in the details TV doesn't have the time to feature. In her engaging and highly informative way Pippa dispels any notion that you need to be an expert to produce rewarding crops of flavoursome food. She advises on all you should consider when planning the plot especially if like her you have a young family and lead a busy life. Using the garden at her own newly acquired home Pippa shows how to organize the space to grow your favourite crops clear the weeds make compost and prepare and improve the soil. She covers all aspects of sowing planting and everyday maintenance before moving on to give all the individual details needed to grow her selection of vegetables fruit and herbs. As far as possible she uses organic methods that are easy to apply in the average back garden and when she feels strongly she doesn't fight shy of expressing personal preferences - yellow courgettes for instance find no favour in her kitchen!

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Review:

The demand for organic food is rapidly increasing and many people are keen to try their hand at growing their own. In Pippa's Organic Kitchen Garden Pippa Greenwood, of BBC Gardener's World renown, sets out to create an organic garden from scratch.

We follow the creation of Pippa's kitchen garden from the early stages where she plans and digs the plot to create the right layout to the successful cultivation of vegetables, fruits and herbs. The plan that Pippa devised is illustrated to show the designated sections for each type of plant she gives useful tips for choosing a plot. A gentle slope that catches the sunshine is perfect. This first section goes on to give advice on preparing and clearing the site of weeds and debris, what is essential for fertile soil and how to naturally protect crops without chemicals. She also addresses the problem of pest and disease prevention, which can be a concern in a chemical-free kitchen garden.

Pippa goes on to give tips on growing individual fruits, vegetable and herbs, including traditional lettuces, root vegetables and summer and winter fruits, but also relative exotica such as radicchio, artichokes, hot peppers and melons. She also shares successful tips, such as harden your tomato plants before transferring them outside, lest they suffer from the sudden change. Practical advice of this sort is abundant and the photographs that accompany the pointers are mouth-watering. The end of the book includes an invaluable sowing and harvesting calendar as well as a list of useful addresses for advice and supplies. Pippa's Organic Kitchen Garden is a convincing and useful introduction to the rewards and challenges of growing your own produce. --Karen Homer

Synopsis:

Written from personal experience the author shows how anyone can grow delicious, organic produce starting from scratch. She includes instructions on the cultivation of a kitchen garden, from planning the space and preparing the soil, to sowing, planting and protecting the crops.

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