Joy Larkcom believes passionately that a vegetable garden, whatever its size, can be as beautiful as a conventional garden of flowers and shrubs. In Creative Vegetable Gardening she shows how the principles of good design can be applied to a kitchen plot and how to use the vibrant textures, colours, and forms of vegetables, herbs and fruit to create glorious effects and intriguing patterns without jeopardizing their productivity. Inspirational colour photographs of potagers and kitchen plots capture the essence of the creative approach to vegetable growing. Techniques are described in clear stages and illustrated with full-colour step-by-step artworks, while an A-Z directory includes more than 150 edible plants with key facts on their cultivation, supplemented with ideas on how to grow them to maximum ornamental effect. Beautifully illustrated, intricate plans of five types of potager - formal, informal, small, urban and winter - add to the wealth of inspirational information.
This revised, updated and expanded edition Joy Larkcom's classic guide to growing your own vegetables contains everything you need to know to create a highly-productive vegetable plot. It covers every aspect of vegetable gardening, including preparing soil; manures, composts and fertilizers; growing techniques; protection; pests, diseases and weeds; and making good use of space. The second half of the book provides cultivation information for over 100 vegetables, including site and soil requirements, cultivation, pests and diseases, and cultivars.
A guide to growing more than 200 salad plants,The Salad Garden covers all you need to know, from site preparation to harvesting, detailing special planting techniques, advice on the best varieties (for growing and for flavour) and plenty of tips and tricks for bountiful crops. Joy Larkcom also shows you how to create a beautiful potager garden, with tips such as training tomatoes up attractive spiral supports, planting for theatrical height and edible seed pods.
An indispensable guide to growing and using Oriental vegetables based on ten years of research in China and the author's own garden. Larkcom shows that many lesser-known Oriental vegetables thrive regardless of season and includes over 50 of her own delicious recipes. Bibliography, index, glossary, and seed-outlet listings. Full-color photographs.
While most are familiar with some of the oriental vegetables - Chinese cabbage, mustard greens and the giant oriental radish - their introduction into western gardens has been an altogether slower process than that of the trees, shrubs and flowers the plant-hunters brought back from China. Yet the Orient possesses adaptable vegetables which can be grown fast and intensively in the West. Many are extremely nutritious, lending themselves to quick healthy stir-frying or steaming and, when harvested young, for use in salads. the cultivation and use of over 100 oriental vegetables, showing the ease with which they can be grown in Western climatic conditions. Their looks and colours are frequently suited to use in decorative schemes, or potagers. They provide vitamins in our diet at a time of year when other green vegetables are not available, and as the recipe section demonstrates, they are delicious to eat.
Offering advice for beginners and for more experienced gardeners on growing vegetables in small spaces, this book covers intensive techniques such as utilizing walls and fences, using cloches to extend the growing season, companion planting, catch cropping and intercropping, and covers a wide variety of vegetables from the perennially popular to the less well-known.
A guide to growing more than 200 salad plants,The Salad Garden covers all you need to know, from site preparation to harvesting, detailing special planting techniques, advice on the best varieties (for growing and for flavour) and plenty of tips and tricks for bountiful crops. Joy Larkcom also shows you how to create a beautiful potager garden, with tips such as training tomatoes up attractive spiral supports, planting for theatrical height and edible seed pods.
This revised, updated and expanded edition Joy Larkcom's classic guide to growing your own vegetables contains everything you need to know to create a highly-productive vegetable plot. It covers every aspect of vegetable gardening, including preparing soil; manures, composts and fertilizers; growing techniques; protection; pests, diseases and weeds; and making good use of space. The second half of the book provides cultivation information for over 100 vegetables, including site and soil requirements, cultivation, pests and diseases, and cultivars.
An indispensable guide to growing and using Oriental vegetables based on ten years of research in China and the author's own garden. Larkcom shows that many lesser-known Oriental vegetables thrive regardless of season and includes over 50 of her own delicious recipes. Bibliography, index, glossary, and seed-outlet listings. Full-color photographs.
This is a survey of the wide range of vegetables, herbs and other plants that can be eaten raw in salads, from traditional items such as lettuce and tomato to less familiar examples such as radicchio, lamb's lettuce and oriental salad plants. It also shows how a variety of these plants can be grown organically and for maximum flavour even in the smallest gardens.
Finding Joy: 70 Life Lessons Along the Way is a collection of insightful and encouraging devotionals that originated as a weekly series of Facebook posts. The author describes them as being "seasoned with grace and peppered with humor." The topics are varied and range from faith and hope to taming the tongue and preparing for the coming King. I feel I must warn you about reading Joy Brown's new book, Finding Joy: 70 Life Lessons Along the Way, because if you start it, you won't want to put it down. It's filled with fresh insights, thoughts that stand out on the page and touch the soul, and moments that will inspire you to dig deeper into your walk with Christ. I highly recommend this book! -Michelle Cox author of When God Calls the Heart: Devotions from Hope Valley, When God Calls the Heart at Christmas, and Just 18 Summers. These life lessons will capture your heart and your attention. You'll be excited to read more than one lesson at a time and always anxious to get back into the book to experience another of Joy Brown's insights. In each of the lessons, you'll "find a way to make each day on this earth an extraordinary day." -Dale Collie author and Founder of Courage Builders. Joy Brown is an inspirational author and speaker. She has written, co-written, or been a contributing writer in twelve books and has traveled extensively speaking to both Christian and secular groups. Joy's messages, whether written or spoken, are meaningful and motivational. She is known for delving deep into the scripture, yet keeping the messages practical, applicable, and fun. Joy desires to see people come into a relationship with Jesus Christ and grow in joyful fellowship with Him. www.wordsofjoy.org
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