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  • #1

    Which Book?

    As Santa is requesting a list this year, it looks like the ideal opportunity to ask for a book on growing veg etc. and basic gardening techniques such as when and how to prune and cut my fruit bushes etc.

    What books would you recommend for a complete beginner like me?

    I have the Grown Your Own book by Carol Klein already. I'd really like something that shows me a step by step guide to pruning etc. Or a DVD that demonstrates what I have to do. Real basic stuff.

    Thanks all and lets hope Santa is kind to me.

    LumpyJ
    Lumpyjumper

    http://lumpyjumpers.blogspot.com

    updated blog - 15 Dec 2009
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    Any of the Hessayon Expert books - there's one on Fruit and one on Veg growing, or for a comprehensive guide n growing veg try Joy Larkom's book which is mentioned on numerous other threads - use the search facility - I would tell you the proper title but I've forgotten
    Rat

    British by birth
    Scottish by the Grace of God

    http://scotsburngarden.blogspot.com/
    http://davethegardener.blogspot.com/

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    • #3
      Thanks, have now found the search facility and it has opened up a huge list, I hope Santa has a large sack!!!

      LumpyJ
      Lumpyjumper

      http://lumpyjumpers.blogspot.com

      updated blog - 15 Dec 2009

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      • #4
        Welcome

        Just as an aside this DVD is interesting. Allotment TV Series on DVD: Home : About The Allotment on DVD from Wildfire Productions allotments grow your own vegetables veg

        Its a magazine style series originally shown on HTV west few years ago. Not an instructional DVD but very good viewing.


        Also.. hello and welcome.
        Blogging at..... www.thecynicalgardener.wordpress.com

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        • #5
          I have a lovely old(ish) book called Food from Your Garden - Reader's Digest. Copyright is 1977, but it includes growing, pruning advice plus recipes, preserving hints etc. I don't know if you can still buy in shops but you should be able to find it on Ebay or Amazon, or even your local library.

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          • #6
            After Joy Larkom one of the better books for beginners that we have and still use everytime we try something different is this one:



            Its got great pictures and is easy to understand and follow, a drawbacks is its out of print but amazon have lots of 2nd-hand copies.

            Amazon.co.uk: Pippa's Organic Kitchen Garden: Books: Pippa Greenwood
            To see a world in a grain of sand
            And a heaven in a wild flower

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            • #7
              veg and herb expert by the doctor - and a welcome to you as well
              ---) CARL (----
              ILFRACOMBE
              NORTH DEVON

              a seed planted today makes a meal tomorrow!

              www.freewebs.com/carlseawolf

              http://mountain-goat.webs.com/

              now in blog form ! UPDATED 15/4/09

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