This guide from the experts of Kew Royal Botanical Gardens is filled
with tips and advice to help you grow your best vegetable garden ever!
In this book Kew's Kitchen Gardener, Helena Dove, combines
practical elements with inspiration and beauty to make a
comprehensive and informative guide with all you need to know to
master theart of growing vegetables.
She shows how to grow some of the most popular staple crops such as
tomatoes, potatoes, radishes and rocket, and also some more unusual
and exciting choices such as oca, tomatillo, seakale and yacon.
She gives easy to follow instructions on how to be a successful
vegetable gardener, plus 12 exciting projects to try throughout the
year including forcing rhubarb, creating an asparagus border and growing
in raised beds.
From sowing, to planting young plants, to hardening off and harvesting,
find out what you need to do and when, to produce the most magnificent
harvests. All the advice is underpinned by the expertise and authority
of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and illustrated from Kew's
world-famous botanical collection.
With this book, you wil be able to reap a rich bounty of delicious
vegetables from just a few packets of seed and some fertile ground!
This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners
and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice
and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of
gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal Plants,
Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing
Orchids, Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti,
Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing Herbs and Guide to Growing
House Plants.
