Beginner's Garden: A Practical Guide to Growing Vegetables & Fruit without Getting Your Hands Too Dirty (IMM Lifestyle) Gardening Tips, Recipes, & Projects for Beginners; Includes Herbs & Small Spaces - Softcover

Alex Mitchell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504800982 ISBN 13: 9781504800983

Publisher: Design Originals, 2018

Synopsis

This book offers a fun and lighthearted guide to growing your own salads, herbs, vegetables, and fruit, armed with little more than a trowel and some seedlings!

• Lighthearted, fun approach to low maintenance gardening for first-timers
• De-mystifies gardening for complete beginners, making it easy to get started
• Grow the most popular herbs, veggies, and fruit while maintaining an attractive outdoor space to have fun in
• Grow your own herbs for making fashionable herb-infused cocktails
• Sound practical and seasonal advice with lots of hints and tips for successful growing
• More than 200 color photos, plus tasty recipes for the produce you'll grow
• Easy weekend projects to help make the most of a small outdoor area, for urban and suburban gardeners who are short on space

Aimed at complete beginners, Beginner's Garden de-mystifies the gardening process with sound practical and seasonal advice, lots of hints and tips for successful growing, delicious recipes, and fun weekend projects to help you make the most of your outdoor area, however small.

This completely new kind of gardening book is ideal for first-timers who have busy working lives but still want to grow their own produce—without spending all weekend digging!

About this title

About the Author

Alex Mitchell is a journalist, author and gardener. She has a regular column in The Sunday Telegraph where she covers everything from how to deter slugs to the best hand cream to use after a day in the elements. She studied at the Chelsea Physic Garden and grows her own fruit, salad, herbs and vegetables.

From the Back Cover

The Essential Gardening Guide for Absolute Beginners

This completely new kind of gardening book is for those who have busy working lives but still want to grow their own food at home. Expert gardener Alex Mitchell demystifies the process with sound practical and hard-won advice. Whether you have a small plot or just a windowsill, Beginner's Garden will introduce you to the simple, feel-good pleasures of growing your own.

START GROWING your own fresh fruits and vegetables!

• What to grow and when to grow it
• Hints and tips for successful growing
• Essential tasks for every season
• Easy weekend projects
• Mouthwatering recipes and tips for entertaining

"Alex writes about her own novice gardening experiences with the benefit of recent hindsight and weaves in some real hilarity among the helpful tips and recipes"
—THE SUNDAY TIMES

"The perfect introduction for anyone having their first try at growing their own produce"
—THE INDEPENDENT

"An easy read for anyone starting their horticultural journey"
—AMATEUR GARDENING

"We fell in love with this little book"
—GARDENS MONTHLY

Edition details

• Publisher: Design Originals
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1504800982
• ISBN 13: 9781504800983
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160