How to Grow Your Own Food: A Week-by-Week Guide to Wild Life Friendly Fruit and Vegetable Gardening - Softcover

Dirty Nails, Dirty Nails

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905862113 ISBN 13: 9781905862115

Publisher: How To Books, 1900

Synopsis

It is his passion for what he does and where he is that inspired 'Dirty Nails' to put pen to paper and record day-to-day life in the vegetable garden. In a compilation of his weekly columns written for the "Blackmore Vale Magazine", Dirty Nails takes you outdoors and 'in amongst it' on the vegetable plot where seeds are sown, plants nurtured, fruits tended and crops harvested. Flora and fauna are noted, too, and delicious and often unusual recipes lovingly supplied. With his guidance - and your gardening - your kitchen garden, vegetable patch or allotment will provide you with the good, fresh, honest and seasonal fruit and vegetables that Dirty Nails has a passion for. And he will also help you sustain the ecological balance of your garden.

Contents: * Practical and entertaining week-by-week companion to growing food in your garden or allotment* Comes from a compilation of weekly columns written by a mystery contributor known only as Dirty Nails for the Blackmore Vale magazine - now published as a book for the first time* Find out how to harvest delicious fresh fruit and vegetables throughout the season, whilst helping to sustain the ecological development of your environment* Using language that is easy to understand and put into practice, this is a book to take out onto the plot with you as seeds are sown, crops nurtured, fruits tended - and flora and fauna noted

About this title

Review:

'Packed with handy hints on wildlife-friendly fruit and veg gardening.' -- Amateur Gardening

'Thanks to his simple, down-to-earth style and chatty text, Dirty Nails is well worth a read. A delightful walk through the veg garden year, this book will be invaluable to anyone who's still finding their feet amid the excitement of growing their own food'
-- Garden News

A gardening book has got to be different, How to Grow Your Own Food is just that. This is a thoroughly enjoyable book which you could read at one sitting and delve into week by week. -- Mid Sussex Times

From the Author:

Special thanks in producing On The Plot must go to my dear friend Tony Benge. He and I spent many absorbing hours shooting the instructional photos which are a feature of this book. Plus the publishers and designers who, I hope you will agree, have done a beautiful yet unpretentious job of packaging it all together in such an inspirational and mouth-watering fashion. I truly hope you enjoy reading and applying On The Plot in the garden and kitchen where you live as much as I had fun writing it. With my very best wishes, Joe.

About this edition

• Publisher: How To Books
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 1905862113
• ISBN 13: 9781905862115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208