
The Essential Allotment Guide: How to Get the Best out of Your Plot (Paperback)
John Harrison (author)Published: 26/03/2009
In recent years allotments have grown in popularity with demand far outstripping supply. John Harrison shows how to improve your chances of getting an allotment and move up the waiting list. In this all-encompassing guide, he also advises on clearing an allotment, planning what to grow and how, building compost bins, using raised beds - plus detailed instructions on growing the best vegetables and fruit.
Praise for John Harrison's Vegetable Growing Month by Month:
"...solid words of advice, written in a way that everyone will understand."
Medwyn Williams, Chairman of the National Vegetable Society and member of the Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780716022121
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 180 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 22 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Britain's greatest allotment authority. -- Emma Townshend * The Independent *
The Essential Allotment Guide is the next best thing to having a weather-beaten old gardener as a next-door neighbour. Calm, practical and endlessly resourceful, this useful manual provides advice on everything from dismantling a second-hand greenhouse...to the mysteries of making organic fertiliser. * Daily Mail *
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