The Allotment Book

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Community gardening is as much about greening cities and healing wounds as simply ensuring food security. And growing crops close to home reduces the environmental cost of ‘food miles’ associated with long-distance transport.

All the photographs included in the growing guides were taken by me to record the crops I have grown over the years. More importantly, this book is teeming with valuable information based on the experience that Andi has gained over the years in his garden and on his allotment; this includes seed germination times, average yields and his recommended varieties of fruit and vegetables. Some sites are privately owned – by churches or public utilities, for example – and the best way to find out how to rent one of these is to ask an existing tenant.From watering to weeding, plating to propagating, this all-encompassing how-to-grow vegetables guide has it all. lives in Snowdonia, North Wales on a smallholding with his wife Val and a pride of miniature lions who can be mistaken for moggies. Prioritise key garden tasks, learn crop rotation techniques, and try step-by-step garden projects, such as sowing peas in guttering and making your own compost bin.

Winstanley and the Diggers would probably recognize the modern threats to land rights and our ‘common treasury’, and his crusading spirit might be welcome back in many site offices. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Product Information: ISBN: 9780241360002 Author: Alan Buckingham Publisher: DK Format: Hardback Pages: 352 Dimensions: 24 x 20. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. A new edition of the bestselling guide to making the most of your allotment, with seasonal advice, essential to-do lists, and more than 60 fruit and vegetable crop planners. In this beautiful book, Andi Clevely captures the essence of the allotment, showing how it is a relaxing and sociable way to garden, and a great opportunity to meet fellow gardeners, young and old. If you find a book you think our visitors would like to read, please let me know – contact page Publishers Please Note: We welcome books to review but will only guarantee to review them honestly.