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20-01-2008, 01:09 PM
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grow veg book
Hi Folks
Saw a thread on the vine somewhere about a g.y.o mag for £7.99 any way to cut a long story short Borders have carol kleins grow your own veg book on sale half price at £7.99 great book for beginners and better value than the forementioned mag i feel. hope this is of some use to someone out there in vine land. P.A     
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22-01-2008, 05:28 PM
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Ive got the Carol Klein book, I was lucky enough to get it as a pressie, but anything gardening related which is a bargain is brill! Bernie
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22-01-2008, 06:18 PM
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I have that book too, it's brill! Videoed the series too and have watched it several times.
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23-01-2008, 11:32 AM
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I have that book too and use it to supplement the advice I find on here
 Also have a very old Readers Digest book called Food From Your Garden which I love, tho it is probably a bit old fashioned these days 
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23-01-2008, 01:09 PM
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Reader Digest's Fruit & Veg Gardening
I've just seen this book (£4) at my son's nursery for sale by Book People Ltd. Does anyone owns this and thinks it's a great 'one vegetable growing book' to have? Currently I don't have any veg garden book. There's fairly detailed instruction against each veg type atlhough some Brassicas are grouped together as one. There is a monthly growing guide in useful chart against all the vegetables in listed order.
My only complaint is there is no container growing guide for vegetables that can be grown in pots with details like pot size/depth, soil requirements etc. Perhaps I can just scribble on the pages of the book against each vegetable  .
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23-01-2008, 01:58 PM
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I've just looked on the Book People website to see if I recognise the book, but can't find it on there - sorry!!
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23-01-2008, 02:02 PM
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To recommend just one book....hmmm I'd have to ditch rather a lot....try Joy Larkcom - Grow Your Own Vegetables Grow Your Own Vegetables
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23-01-2008, 02:06 PM
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23-01-2008, 03:06 PM
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Glad I'm not the only one Lainey!! Its a great book which I'm sure will get very well used!! Its already full of grubby/muddy fingerprints from my dad who had it originally a good few years ago now
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23-01-2008, 03:57 PM
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The only problem with 'old' gardening books is that they often recommend you to use chemicals you can't even buy these days - because they're poisonous. However, most veg growers are (I hope) sufficiently clued up not to put really nasty things on their food crops. They might not mention newer varieties either - but the advice on growing is usually sound and common sense.
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23-01-2008, 04:29 PM
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I know what you mean Flum, it is a bit old fashioned - but gives me a basic grounding when I dont have a clue
 Plus it has some recipes in as well, for chutneys and the like - though I think I'll be trying the ones on here first 
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23-01-2008, 06:35 PM
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The Reader's Digest book is the one below although not being sold from their website. I had a quick look again while I was there.
Fruit And Vegetable Gardening | ISBN: 9780276442056 (0276442059) | Our price: 6.99 GBP | You save: 30% It has an A4 size worth of details about 'good companion' and 'bad companion' planting against a list of applicable vegetable. There are few pages on various pest and disease but not each pest not too detailed. It has same growing format against each fruit. I like the colour picture illustration of forcing chicory which I couldn't imagine how the whole process work. Of cource it also covers veg like Asparagus but the book leave out the more exotic vegetables like Okra for example. The book isn't that thick so maybe easier to find details quickly as it may be written and presented more effectively...not like beating about the bush just to get a straight answer. I could get it for anybody who's interested but with postage, it may not be worth it . It may be possible to contact The Book People to find your local agent in your area who sells book at the nursery etc.
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06-03-2008, 10:24 PM
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Carol Kleins - grow your own veg
I bought Carol Kleins book around Oct last year from the book people. It was about £5.
Absolutely love the book, sits on my coffee table and I read it over and ove again. If your really sad like me, there is also a DVD on a CD site. Have ordered it (Saturday and waiting for it to arrive). It is all about growing your own veg, no idea if it is any good yet, but will let you know when it arrives. The site is called CD Wow and just type in grow your own veg and click the DVD section and it will come up. It is about £11 and free P& P used them many times for cds etc and they are ok.
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07-03-2008, 08:01 PM
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I like Joy Larkcom and Carol Klein, and personally would rate them both much more highly than Alan T, but one of my favourite veg-growing books of all time is Christopher Lloyd's 'Gardener, Cook.'
He was a legend. I can't think of any better garden writer.
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08-03-2008, 09:03 AM
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Hi
Here is the details of the DVD. It has not arrived yet, so a bit cross, the other dvd I ordered for my son came 4 days ago. So fingers crossed it will arrive very soon. It is £8.49 so lets hope it is worth it and a bargain! My little boy wants to take his portable dvd to the lottie and see how they do thinks on the dvd and copy them. If it encourages him I am all for it. CD WOW! - How To Grow Vegetables DVD How To Grow Vegetables - 2 - Europe and Japan £8.49 Save: up to 30% Delivery: Free! 27 Nov 2006 Features: Certificate: E Category: Instructional No. of Discs: 1 Running Time: Year Produced: Region: 2 (UK & Europe/Japan) Audio: English Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic: To Be Confirmed Encoding: Interactive Features: Simple menu driven navigation. Tom's Top Ten Tips. Petherick's Plant Picker-an extensive plant finder. Review: This provides an opportunity to look at the cultivation of vegetables on a scale to suit all gardeners. Using our own experimental garden and several others such as the Lost Gardens of Heligan where the production of vegetables is carried out to the highest possible standards, we will be able to cover all aspects in great detail. Featuring choice of site and aspect. Building soil fertility and crop rotation. Pests and diseases. Organic cultivation.
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