Digging Deep In The Garden: Book Four - Softcover

Walker, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993268374 ISBN 13: 9780993268373

Publisher: Earth-friendly Books, 2016

Synopsis

‘‘The most common sense gardening writing there is … a vital message for everyone, gardener or not.’’

Gardening with your gut instincts... growing your own edible resilience... why money can’t buy ‘the good life’... unpicking media delusions about peat use... kicking our addiction to oil in our gardens... the compelling power of asking questions.

In this diverse, insightful and engaging collection of essays exploring gardening’s place in nature, John Walker exposes illusions, debunks myths and wipes away greenwash, rallying us to challenge and change the over-consuming, nature-indifferent approach to ‘gardening as usual’.

This fourth and final book of John’s earth-friendly garden writing, originally published in Kitchen Garden magazine as his popular and long-running series ‘Digging Deep’, includes ‘Kicking the habit’, which won the Garden Media Guild Environmental Award in 2010.

About this title

About the Author

John Walker is an award-winning gardening and environmental author, writer, blogger and micropublisher 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 for the Royal Horticultural Society’s journal The Garden. His four collections of cage-rattling essays, Digging Deep in the Garden, explore gardening’s place in nature. A new and updated edition of Weeds: An Organic, Earth-friendly Guide to their Identification, Use and Control was published in 2016. John’s 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 wrote The Bed and Border Planner, 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: 0993268374
• ISBN 13: 9780993268373
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 68