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Practical Guide to Allotment Gardening: Growing Vegetables and Fruit Christine Lavelle

Practical Guide to Allotment Gardening: Growing Vegetables and Fruit By Christine Lavelle

Practical Guide to Allotment Gardening: Growing Vegetables and Fruit by Christine Lavelle


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A clear and beautifully illustrated guide to gardening techniques and plants for your allotment by the award-winning gardeners.

Practical Guide to Allotment Gardening: Growing Vegetables and Fruit Summary

Practical Guide to Allotment Gardening: Growing Vegetables and Fruit: Step-by-step techniques for cultivating organic produce on your plot all year round by Christine Lavelle

This newly updated edition guides the budding allotmenter through every step of successful growing from early planning to planting and harvesting. Information on tools, equipment and soil management follows, along with a chapter on what to grow where, crop rotation, companion planting and growing both outdoors and in a greenhouse. Techniques such as sowing, propagation, feeding, watering, pruning, harvesting and storing are examined with easy- to-follow instructions and examples .Directories of vegetables, fruit and herbs outline the specific requirements of different crops while a section on plant health helps to deal with common pests and diseases and carry out weed management. A season-by-season calendar of care ensures you do the right jobs at the right time.

About Christine Lavelle

Christine and Michael Lavelle are both lecturers in horticulture at Writtle College, UK. Together they have won the Garden Writers' Practical Book of the Year Award for their books How to Create a Wildlife Garden and Organic Gardening (both Lorenz Books).

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GOR012181325
9780754834724
0754834727
Practical Guide to Allotment Gardening: Growing Vegetables and Fruit: Step-by-step techniques for cultivating organic produce on your plot all year round by Christine Lavelle
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Anness Publishing
20190731
256
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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