Gardeners' World Practical Gardening Handbook: Traditional Techniques, Expert Skills, Innovative Ideas - Softcover

Buckland, Toby

9781846078644: Gardeners' World Practical Gardening Handbook: Traditional Techniques, Expert Skills, Innovative Ideas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846078644 ISBN 13: 9781846078644

Publisher: BBC Books, 2012

In this brilliant new official companion to Gardeners’ World, lead presenter Toby Buckland offers a complete guide to making you a better gardener.

Toby sees the garden as connected to the kitchen, the compost heap and the world beyond. He encourages us to turn gardening into an adventure rather than a list of chores. It becomes a workshop to fashion an apple press from skip-scavenged timber, or a warm greenhouse sanctuary. Borders aren’t just for weeding, they’re for strawberries by the punnet-load. Piles of golden leaves along the roadside aren’t just the soggy debris of autumn but the potential for soil-enriching leaf mould.

Opening our eyes to these connections helps us appreciate the joy of gardening, and this book teaches you the craft. However big or small your plot, whether you are starting from scratch or looking for new ideas to refresh an established scheme, the Practical Gardening Handbook will show you how to bring your garden alive.

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Review:

"Very much a practical book with an easy-to-follow layout containing lots of tried-and-tested tips and ideas for practical use in the garden ... Toby has a very practical outlook to gardening which is refreshing ...he turns gardening into an adventure." (recklessgardener.com)

Book Description:

Gardeners' World's popular lead presenter Toby Buckland goes back to basics with his complete hands-on guide to making you a better gardener.

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