Digging Deep In The Garden: Book Two - Softcover

Walker, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993268358 ISBN 13: 9780993268359

Publisher: Earth-friendly Books, 2016

Synopsis

‘‘An intelligent reminder of the joys and responsibilities of gardening.’’

Putting the brakes on runaway consumerism through ‘freegardening’... rethinking our addiction to high-dependency container gardening... exploring our growing prospects in a topsy-turvy climate... why pulling down garden fences can reboot biodiversity... how local and diverse ‘earth centres’ could help gardening communities flourish... 

In this thought-provoking, cage-rattling collection of essays exploring gardening’s place in nature, John Walker burrows deep into gardening’s subsoil to uproot thorny issues, while encouraging gardeners to see their role as a force for good. 

This second book of John’s earth-friendly garden writing was originally published in Organic Gardening magazine as his long-running and popular series ‘Digging Deep’.

About this title

About the Author

John Walker is an award-winning gardening and environmental author, writer, blogger and publisher with 40 years’ experience in practical gardening, teaching and the garden media. He grew up in the countryside, caught the gardening bug while still at school, and trained at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Cambridge University Botanic Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, where he was awarded the Kew Diploma in Horticulture. He is also a qualified teacher. John was features/deputy editor of Garden Answers magazine and contributing editor of Kitchen Garden. John writes about organic, earth-friendly gardening for national newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and the Royal Horticultural Society’s journal The Garden. His recent book How to Create an Eco Garden: The Practical Guide to Greener, Planet-friendly Gardening was shortlisted for the 2012 Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year. He also wrote The Bed and Border Planner and Weeds: An Organic, Earth-friendly Guide to their Identification, Use and Control, edited A Gardeners’ Guide to Annuals, and contributed to the Garden Organic Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. John has won the Garden Media Guild Environmental Award three times, and has been shortlisted for Gardening Journalist of the Year three times. John is slowly making a new earth- and climate-friendly garden from a once bracken-riddled hillside at his edge-of- woodland home in Snowdonia, North Wales.

Edition details

• Publisher: Earth-friendly Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0993268358
• ISBN 13: 9780993268359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78