The Kitchen Gardener

128 pages. The Kitchen gardener shows how to grow vegetables and fruit in such a way tha t, far from detracting from the look of your garden, they can actually enhance i ts appearance. The author shows how the kitchen garden can be designed on orname ntal lines to avoid the dull, utilitarian look of a vegetable plot or allotment. By means of detailed layouts the author shows how practical yet pleasing design s for the kitchen garden can be achieved. Other topics covered in the first part of the book - the techniques section - include soil preparation, seed thinning, sowing, transplanting and winter storage. The second part compromises an A-Z cr op guides for vegetables, herbs and fruit and the last part compromises appendic es on vegetable spacings, sowing times and planting times. --Publisher descripti on.