The Kitchen Garden (Gardening Workbooks) - Hardcover

Richard Bird

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841720240 ISBN 13: 9781841720241

Publisher: Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Growing -- and eating -- one's own fruits and vegetables is one of the most satisfying experiences in gardening. Fortunately for today's small-space gardeners, fruit and vegetable plants have shed their utilitarian image and are now an integral part of many an ornamental garden. The Kitchen Garden shows, in 20 easy-to-execute projects, how to use these vitamin-packed edibles to create a variety of delightfully decorative and productive plots.The newest installment in the Garden Project Workbook series, The Kitchen Garden offers readers a panoply of unique solutions for adding fruits and vegetables to gardens of any size or style: laying down a salad bed, designing a knot garden for herb plants, building a rooftop kitchen garden, creating an arbor of vegetable vines, introducing vegetables to hanging pots, and planting fruit among the flowers.With this winning combination of practical advice and dearly illustrated, step-by-step instructions, all gardeners can now enjoy the fruits -- and vegetables -- of their labors.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Bird has written many books on gardening, including Flowering Trees and Shrubs, Guide to Rock Gardening, Cottage Gardens (with Christopher Lloyd), and Organic Gardening. His contributions to the Garden Project Workbook series include Beds and Borders, and Fences and Hedges.

Photographer Jonathan Buckley's work has appeared in such magazines as Horticulture, Country Life, The Garden, Gardens Illustrated, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and Gardenia (Italy).

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"The Scented Garden" and "The Kitchen Garden," by renowned gardening author Richard Bird, are the next two titles to join the successful Garden Project Workbook series published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang.

One of the most satisfying experiences in gardening is growing-and eating-one's own fruits and vegetables. Fortunately for today's small-space gardeners, fruit and vegetable plants have shed their utilitarian image and are now an integral part of many an ornamental garden. "The Kitchen Garden" shows, in twenty step-by-step projects, how to create a variety of delightfully decorative and productive plots.

"The Kitchen Garden" is divided into four main sections containing innovative ways of using fruit, vegetables and herbs in garden plots, in containers, as climbers, and as an integral part in beds and borders. Each section presents a number of unique solutions for adding fruits and vegetables a number of unique solutions for adding fruits and vegetables to gardens of any size or style. Among the projects included are : planting a salad bed, designing a knot garden for herb plants, building a rooftop kitchen garden, adding vegetables vines, and planting fruit among the flowers.

"The Kitchen Garden" shows that incorporating these edible delights into an ornamental garden can be fun and wonderfully decorative, as well as productive. With the practical advice and clearly illustrated step-by-step instructions, all gardeners can now enjoy the fruits-and vegetables-of their labors.

This unique series consists of hardback spiral-bound books that are dedicated to providing inspirational ideas on a range of gardening topics and each book provides a comprehensive, practical guide for all levels of gardening experience.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1841720240
• ISBN 13: 9781841720241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112