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Kitchen Gardening for Beginners

A Simple Guide to Growing Fruit and Vegetables

By: Simon Akeroyd

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Kitchen Gardening for Beginners

A Simple Guide to Growing Fruit and Vegetables

By: Simon Akeroyd

Kitchen Gardening for Beginners has everything you need to leave the supermarket behind in favor of tastier and healthier home-grown fruit and vegetables. Avoid bland, pesticide-tainted produce flown in from the other side of the world and start growing your own produce with this reassuring guide, complete with a glossary of gardening terms and a picture gallery of common weeds. Kitchen Gardening for Beginners takes you through ten steps to preparing your plot and teaches you need-to-know techniques such as sowing, plating, feeding, mulching, watering, and weeding. Armed with the basics, you'll learn how to grow over 70 types of fruit and vegetable crops. You'll also find easy projects such as making a simple compost bin and planting a fruit tree and tips to attract wildlife along with simple, delicious ways to enjoy your produce. A handy troubleshooting section covers identifying and dealing with weeds, pests, and diseases. Whether you prefer to start small with a few herbs and vegetable staples or you are more ambitious and intend to feed your whole family all year-round, Kitchen Gardening for Beginners will show you how.

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1465412441

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RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden

Ideas and Inspiration for Growing Indoors and Out

By: Simon Akeroyd

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RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden

Ideas and Inspiration for Growing Indoors and Out

By: Simon Akeroyd

*** 'So you know you want to start gardening but you have no idea where to begin? ... Simon Akeroyd gives step-by-step guidance on everything from creating a cactus collection to growing fruit in hanging baskets. The book turns what is often a daunting task into bite-size steps that can often be done in an afternoon.' George Hudson, Evening Standard, favourite garden publications of the year Aimed at first-time gardeners, those in rented accommodation or anyone with limited outdoor space, this book teaches how to take stock of an environment and start a garden. With ideas for gardens, patio spaces, courtyards, balconies and interiors, these 50 easy-to-adopt ideas provide the steps to success for even the most inexperienced gardeners. Contents include: - Create a floral display with bulbs that last all year - Grow pet-friendly plants - Create a vegetable harvest in pots - Add height in flat spaces - Make a mow-free lawn - Hang plants around your home

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Mitchell Beazley

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1784728829

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9781784728823

The Good Gardener

Expert advice for every garden from the National Trust

By: Simon Akeroyd

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The Good Gardener

Expert advice for every garden from the National Trust

By: Simon Akeroyd

Create your ideal garden with this indispensable guide from the National Trust. The Good Gardener explains traditional skills tried and tested by generations of National Trust gardeners, including expert advice from the head gardeners at world-famous Hidcote, Sissinghurst and Stourhead, and reinterprets them for the modern garden – large and small. Packed with illustrated handy tips, step-by-step guides and beautiful photography, this book is suitable for everyone from novice through to expert. It covers all aspects of gardening, from the basics through to landscaping and design, pruning and propagation and creating a more sustainable garden. Whether you want to start off with a low-maintenance garden, grow your own fruit and vegetables or attract wildlife, The Good Gardener will help you enjoy a beautiful garden all year round. Chapter outline: Garden basics – soil type, aspect, weeding and digging, plant picker guide of what to grow, where and when; Designing your garden – function vs aesthetics, landscaping, low-maintenance gardening, container gardening and a return to lost styles and techniques; Lawn care and alternatives to lawns; Planting; Propagation; Pruning; Garden maintenance; Grow your own – growing fruit, vegtables and herbs, crop rotation, advantages of growing your own; Greener gardening and wildlife gardening – natural alternatives, how to encourage wildlife, how to deter pests without damaging the environment, beehives and composting tips.

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National Trust

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190988166X

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RHS How to Grow Plants for Free

Creating New Plants from Cuttings, Seeds and More

By: Simon Akeroyd

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RHS How to Grow Plants for Free

Creating New Plants from Cuttings, Seeds and More

By: Simon Akeroyd

Increase your stock of plants easily and for free by propagating them yourself. RHS How to Grow Plants for Free demystifies the art of taking cuttings and explains the other ways you can multiply your garden plants. Propagating your own plants is fun, inexpensive, and a sustainable way to garden. An introductory section explains the botanical science behind all types of propagation and defines and simplifies the language. The book is then split into self-contained practical chapters detailing each of the different types of propagation. Each chapter includes a selection of 'plant profiles' for the plants best suited to each propagation method: - Dividing Plants covers the easiest methods of splitting one plant into several new ones - Saving Seeds introduces how to collect and process seeds from flowers, vegetables, herbs and trees - Cuttings covers how to successfully grow a new plant from an existing one using several different methods for taking cuttings - The Houseplants chapter shows techniques needed to increase your collection. - The final chapters show how to grow new plants from kitchen scraps, and gives ideas on how to make the most of all the new plants you've created by giving them as gifts

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Mitchell Beazley

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178472890X

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Worrell

The Brief but Brilliant Life of a Caribbean Cricket Pioneer

By: Simon Lister

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Worrell

The Brief but Brilliant Life of a Caribbean Cricket Pioneer

By: Simon Lister

The definitive telling of the life of a West Indian hero' Sir Clive Lloyd The brilliant all-rounder Frank Worrell had to wait until 1960 to become the first permanent Black captain of the West Indies cricket team, denied for a decade by the elitism, insularity and racism of Caribbean cricket’s rulers. When his chance finally came, Worrell transformed a talented but unfocused team into the most exciting side in the world and led his men into unforgettable series against Australia and England. Worrell was universally admired as one of cricket’s great captains when he was knighted in 1964, but three years later, he was dead aged just forty-two. Not merely an extraordinarily talented and record-breaking sportsman, he served the University of the West Indies after his retirement – along with the cricket team and the political federation, one of the three truly unifying elements across a fractious and diverse region. This biography, by the author of the acclaimed Fire in Babylon and with a foreword by Sir Clive Lloyd, is the definitive telling of Frank Worrell's life and legacy. It reveals how an upbringing in Barbados, cricketing adventures around the world and a determination not to be cowed by the powers that ran island cricket, shaped a great West Indian cricketer into a great West Indian, who changed the game forever.

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Simon and Schuster

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1398524891

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9781398524897

Get Started: Growing Vegetables

Learn Something New

By: Simon Akeroyd

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Get Started: Growing Vegetables

Learn Something New

By: Simon Akeroyd

Take the first step to gardening expertise with Get Started: Growing Vegetables, part of a new series of learning guides from DK where nothing is assumed and everything is explained. Each course follows the same structure: start simple and learn the basics, build on what you've learned, and then show off your new skills! Get Started: Growing Vegetables teaches complete beginners the skills needed to complete 53 gardening projects. Start simple with leafy windowboxes and a hanging herb basket, build upon your skills with a potted apple tree, and then show off by building a raised garden bed. With step-by-step pictures and practice projects to keep you on the right track, Get Started: Growing Vegetables will help you learn your new skill in no time. More than any other series on the market, DK's Get Started aims to provide the reader with carefully structured learning and a classroom approach to teaching that allows you to build your own course from practical lessons and themed projects. Each book begins by answering fundamental questions, identifying an essential starter kit of tools and equipment, and explaining how to build a course. The book then divides into subject areas, with key techniques for each area demonstrated through visual glossaries and step-by-steps, followed by graded projects with annotated instructions and an assessment of how to build on achievements. Let DK be the perfect one-on-one tutor you never had: patient, illuminating, inspiring - always at hand to point you in the right direction so you can achieve your potential.

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Penguin

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1465410945

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9781465410948

Perfect Compost

A Practical Guide

By: Simon Akeroyd

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Perfect Compost

A Practical Guide

By: Simon Akeroyd

Learn how to make and use nourishing compost for your garden with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener. It's packed with useful tips for successful composting, from deciding what to put in your kitchen compost caddy to how to use the final product in your garden. The author discusses the various composting set-ups you can choose, from simple plastic cone-shaped ‘Dalek’ bins to ingenious hand-rotated barrels and elaborate solar-powered hot composting systems, and gives full instructions to make a professional-looking three-bay compost heap from old pallets. Also covered are unusual and innovative techniques such as keyhole gardening and lasagne planting, and there’s a guide to wormeries and, for the very adventurous, snaileries. He also reveals the many uses to which compost can be put in your garden, and not just to grow plants in - as a top dressing to keep your lawn looking fresh and green, as mulch for your flower beds, or, in liquid form, as a powerfully nutritious plant feed. And there’s a handy guide to which bits of kitchen waste you can put into your compost, and which you really shouldn’t. Finally, if you’ve always wanted an exceptionally environmentally friendly composting toilet, instructions are here. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this practical guide contains all the advice you'll ever need to get your compost going and use it to help your garden thrive.

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National Trust

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1911657275

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9781911657279

Get Started: Growing Vegetables

Learn Something New

By: Simon Akeroyd

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RHS You Will Be Able to Garden By the End of This Book

By: Simon Akeroyd

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RHS You Will Be Able to Garden By the End of This Book

By: Simon Akeroyd

The title might sound like a bold statement, but you really will be able to garden by the end of this book. Whether you are a budding botanist or just aspire to have greener fingers, this book will hold your 'horticultural hand' and guide you gently through the principles of gardening. Whether you have a tiny courtyard or something a bit bigger, this book will share everything you need to know to create your own patch of horticultural heaven. With 12 easy-to-follow chapters that explore all the basics of successful, stress-free gardening including assessing and designing your garden, how to grow fruit and vegetables, plant maintenance, propagation, lawns and container garden. The 15 step-by-step techniques will teach you how to sow seeds, prune shrubs, cut a hedge, mow a lawn and even how to design your own outside space, plus so much more. Just as important, the book explains how to garden sustainably and encourage wildlife, so that you can make informed decisions when it comes to creating and maintaining your garden.

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Mitchell Beazley

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1784728411

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9781784728410

RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden

Ideas and Inspiration for Growing Indoors and Out

By: Simon Akeroyd

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Ideas and Inspiration for Growing Indoors and Out

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Mitchell Beazley

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RHS How to Grow Plants for Free

Creating New Plants from Cuttings, Seeds and More

By: Simon Akeroyd

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Creating New Plants from Cuttings, Seeds and More

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Mitchell Beazley

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178472890X

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New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques

By: Simon Akeroyd

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New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques

By: Simon Akeroyd

A flagship practical book of gardening techniques from RHS that shows up-to-date skills to a new generation of gardeners." -- Provided by publisher.

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480

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1845334086

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9781845334086

Simple Steps to Success: Lawns and Groundcover

By: DK

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Simple Steps to Success: Lawns and Groundcover

By: DK

Using a combination of easily accessible information and inspiring photographs, the Simple Steps series promotes gardening as a real pleasure rather than a back-breaking chore. In Lawns and Groundcover, you'll find a one-stop guide to creating and maintaining beautiful lawns, meadows, or beds of groundcover.

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Penguin

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0756699258

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9780756699253

RHS Complete Gardener's Manual

By: Simon Akeroyd

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RHS Complete Gardener's Manual

By: Simon Akeroyd

A one-stop guide to creating and caring for your garden RHS Complete Gardener's Manual covers every aspect of gardening from choosing the right tools for the job and improving soil to planning a productive kitchen garden. It combines practical advice with design inspiration and step-by-step techniques with beautiful photography to help you get the best out of your garden. Take a step towards self-sufficiency with a major section on growing your own fruit and vegetables or browse through the eye-catching catalogue of plants to see what you should be planting for every season and site. Plus, dedicated chapters focus on key gardening topics such as pruning, propagation and problem-solving. RHS Complete Gardener's Manual is a great reference guide and a one-stop manual for both new and experienced gardeners alike.

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Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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1405365838

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9781405365833

RHS Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener

Old, New, Common and Curious Vegetables to Grow and Eat

By: Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain),Simon Akeroyd

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RHS Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener

Old, New, Common and Curious Vegetables to Grow and Eat

By: Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain),Simon Akeroyd

RHS Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener is an accessible guide to over 65 types of vegetable, from the obscure to the familiar. It discusses the origin, cultivation and preparation of each vegetable, along with intriguing insights into its history and uses. Practical growing tips, nutritional information and classic recipes are interspersed with feature spreads on topics such as heritage and heirloom vegetables, sowing techniques and specialist garden tools. Illustrated throughout with delicate botanical watercolours and engravings and presented in an attractive cloth-effect cover, this is a book for every gardener and cook to treasure.

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Mitchell Beazley

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1845338863

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9781845338862

Shrubs and Small Trees

By: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.,Simon Akeroyd

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Shrubs and Small Trees

By: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.,Simon Akeroyd

Illustrates how to use popular shrubs, fruit trees, and small plants to landscape a garden, and offers advice on ways to plant, prune, care for, and protect them.

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0756633443

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Kitchen Gardening for Beginners

Kitchen Gardening for Beginners

RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden

RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden

The Good Gardener

The Good Gardener

RHS How to Grow Plants for Free

RHS How to Grow Plants for Free

Worrell

Worrell

Get Started: Growing Vegetables

Get Started: Growing Vegetables

Perfect Compost

Perfect Compost

Get Started: Growing Vegetables

Get Started: Growing Vegetables

RHS You Will Be Able to Garden By the End of This Book

RHS You Will Be Able to Garden By the End of This Book

RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden

RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden

RHS How to Grow Plants for Free

RHS How to Grow Plants for Free

New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques

New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques

Simple Steps to Success: Lawns and Groundcover

Simple Steps to Success: Lawns and Groundcover

RHS Complete Gardener's Manual

RHS Complete Gardener's Manual

RHS Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener

RHS Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener

Shrubs and Small Trees

Shrubs and Small Trees

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