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    A Good Book Recommendation Wanted

    I'm looking for a good gardening book for my Sister that is mainly veg growing.
    Not looking for anything to involved just a good basic guide to veg growing.
    Any advice gratefully received.
    Steve
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    Get her to subscribe to this forum!
    Mark

    Vegetable Kingdom blog

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    • #3
      I find "Allotment Month by Month" very useful. Shows you what you can sow, grow, and harvest each month and gives a good breakdown of work involved, prep etc.

      ISBN: 1405340851

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      • #4
        ^^ Yeah - wot he said!
        All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
        Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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        • #5
          Carol Klein's Grow Your Own Veg is a good all round book. It's modern in outlook (no advice to nuke weeds with DDT etc!) and it doesn't assume any prior knowledge. Lots of lovely pics too.

          http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grow-Your-Ow...4077928&sr=8-1

          Edited to add - I've seen it at The Works for about a fiver.
          Last edited by Seahorse; 10-04-2012, 05:16 PM.
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          I walked right out of the machinery
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          • #6
            (Saint) Alan Titchmarsh "The Kitchen Gardener".
            A lot of folk don't like him, but if you want what to plant when and how to keep them happy, you won't go far wrong with this one..
            When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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            • #7
              ^^^^

              That one, that's what I started with.
              Horticultural Hobbit

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              • #8
                I think 'The Veg expert by Dr. DG Hessayon is always a good buy.

                The Vegetable Expert (Expert books): Amazon.co.uk: D. G. Hessayon: Books
                Location....East Midlands.

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                • #9
                  I'm with Seahorse about Carol Klein, but I also think like Capsid that you should introduce her to this Forum!
                  Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                  • #10
                    Thanks guys.
                    Sis like Mr Titchmarsh so that might be the way to go.
                    Think I've got an old copy of the veg expert somewhere, think its got how to grow papyrus in it, its that old.

                    Sis doesn't use t'internet she leaves that to BiL. Dont know what he does on it though
                    Last edited by cardiffsteve; 10-04-2012, 06:28 PM.

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                    • #11
                      Last year I read Joe Swift's book about getting an allotment and doing it up. I found it incredibly inspirational, and love the table at the back listing common veg and when to sow, plant out and harvest them etc.
                      I do normally like Mr Titchmarsh too and I have that book mentioned above. Brilliant read, though I seem to find him a bit finicky these days. Not sure why.
                      https://nodigadventures.blogspot.com/

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                      • #12
                        The River Cottage Handbook for veg is absolutley fab - an old battered copy lives in my lottie bag (just remembered, I never mentioned that in the what do you take to the plot thread!)

                        Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                        Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                        • #13
                          How to Grow Vegetables by Joy Larkcom, and as already recommended The Vegetable Expert by D. G. Hessayon are both good books, in my (limited) experience
                          "Live like a peasant, eat like a king..."
                          Sow it, grow it • Adventures on Plot 10b - my allotment blog.
                          I'm also on Twitter.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Bren In Pots View Post
                            I think 'The Veg expert by Dr. DG Hessayon is always a good buy.

                            The Vegetable Expert (Expert books): Amazon.co.uk: D. G. Hessayon: Books
                            I agree with Bren In Pots, its also cheap
                            Regards
                            Lady Jana Muck

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                            • #15
                              Definately Joy Larkhams - no rubbish pictures and lots of info.
                              Gill

                              So long and thanks for all the fish.........

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