New Kitchen Garden: Organic Gardening and Cooking With Herbs, Vegetables, and Fruit

Growing your own herbs, vegetables and fruit organically, and harvesting them to make healthy meals, is fun and fulfilling. As New Kitchen Garden explains, the whole process can be much simpler than you imagine - even if your outdoor space is no more than a patio or a roof-top garden. Focusing on plants that are easy to grow, Adam Caplin takes a new look at the delights of cultivating edibles, showing how they can be grown - on their own in beds and containers, in mixed borders, and decoratively with flowers - for their ornamental as well as their nutritional value. Acclaimed cookery writer Celia Brooks Brown then takes the kitchen garden into the kitchen with 35 great vegetarian recipes - soups and starters, main courses, salads and light dishes, salsas and chutneys and sweet things. LIST PRICE: 24.95

Celia Brooks Brown is one of the talented teacher-chefs at the world-famous bookshops Books for Cooks in Notting Hill, London. She has written six cookbooks, appears regularly as a cook on TV, and works as a food consultant.

Adam Caplin studied horticulture at Reading, in southern England, before running several successful nurseries and garden centers, including the Chelsea Gardener. He is the co-author of "New Kitchen Garden" (Ryland Peters & Small) and a contributor to "Easy Gardening" and "BBC Gardener's World" magazine.

Caroline Hughes began her photographic career in fashion, but after the birth of her second child she turned her camera on the garden, deciding to put her love of plants to better use. Caroline now photographs gardens, for many publications, including the Daily Telegraph, Homes & Gardens, and The English Garden. She lives in London with her daughters and her husband, Mat, whose plants provide the inspiration and material for many of her photographs.

William Shaw trained at Salisbury College of Art, and is now a leading lifestyle and food photographer whose work has appeared in many magazines, including Country Life, Country Living, Sinsbury's The Magazine, House Beautiful, Homes & Gardens, Country Homes & Interiors, and various BBC magazines.