The Pocket Vegetable Expert - Softcover

Hessayon, D.G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0903505576 ISBN 13: 9780903505574

Publisher: Expert Books, 2002

Synopsis

Homegrown produce beats store-bought hands down--and you'll have a thriving vegetable garden as long as you use this guide! Perfectly sized to carry outdoors while you tend to the plants, it will tell you how to buy and store seed; rotate crops; plant in containers and the greenhouse; feed, water, and weed; and pick your bounty at the height of tenderness. Grow everything from traditional fare (like carrots) to baby vegetables to more unusual varieties. A directory includes both beautiful pictures of each type and detailed information on cultivation. You'll save money and feel a special thrill every time you take a bite!

About this title

About the Author

Dr David Hessayon initiated a major innovation in gardening publications in 1959 with the first of his Gardening Expert guides. These best-selling guides have had an unparalleled influence on gardening over the past 50 years. There are over 47 million copies in print. He was awarded the 1993 Gardening Book of the Year Award from the Garden Writers Guild and received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement 'Oscar' at the National British Book Awards. In 1999 he received a Guinness World Record Award as 'Britain's best-selling living author of the 1990s'. He lives in Essex, and has two daughters and four grandchildren.

Review

A new title in the acclaimed Pocket Expert series - a 'boiled-down' version of the UK's best-selling standard sized Expert, including sections on getting started, plant care and a vegetable A-Z.

Edition details

• Publisher: Expert Books
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0903505576
• ISBN 13: 9780903505574
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128