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Complete Gardener (The) Monty Don

Complete Gardener (The) By Monty Don

Complete Gardener (The) by Monty Don


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Summary

Packed with practical advice, this title breathes new life into every aspect of gardening. It is illustrated with photographs taken over the course of a year in Monty's own Herefordshire garden to illuminate the secrets of bearing abundant organic flowers and vegetables, plants and produce.

Complete Gardener (The) Summary

Complete Gardener (The) by Monty Don

Written with passion and packed with practical advice, Monty Don breathes new life into organic gardening. Illustrated with extraordinarily beautiful photographs taken over the course of a year in Monty's own Herefordshire garden to illuminate the secrets of bearing abundant organic flowers and vegetables, plants and produce.

About Monty Don

Monty Don has been gardening on TV for over 25 years for ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC, and since 2003 has been the lead presenter on BBC TV's Gardeners' World, which from 2011 has been filmed in his own garden in Herefordshire, Longmeadow. He is an experienced organic gardener and was President of the Soil Association from 2008 to 2017. A prolific journalist and author, he was gardening correspondent for the Observer from 1994 to 2006 and has written a weekly gardening column for the Daily Mail since 2004. He has published 19 books, including Down to Earth, the top-selling gardening book in the UK of 2017.

Table of Contents

Being organic: relationship to place; organic horticultural practice; weather; soil; cultivation; tools; compost; manures; mulches; plant propagation; the greenhouse; rainfall and irrigation; weeds; pests and diseases. Structure: planning the design; practical considerations; paths, walls and fences; hedges and laying hedges; trees; the Lime Walk; pleaching limes; the Coppice; topiary. Flowers: spring garden; jewel garden; walled garden; damp garden. Vegetables: the vegetable plot; crop rotation; spring vegetables; summer vegetables; autumn vegetables; winter vegetables. The herb garden: annual and biennial herbs; mediterranean herbs. Fruit: the orchard; soft fruit.

Additional information

GOR001235859
9780751364415
075136441X
Complete Gardener (The) by Monty Don
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
2003-03-12
440
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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