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Vegetable and Herb Expert by: D.G. Hessayon List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £4.79 You Save: £3.20 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 635 EAN: 9780903505468 ISBN: 0903505460 Label: Expert Manufacturer: Expert Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: April 07, 1997 Publisher: Expert Studio: Expert Sales Rank: 375 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Synopsis: This updated edition contains new chapters on "baby" vegetables and the modern easy ways to grow food crops. There is an enlarged chapter on herbs, with details of new varieties which have appeared in the past few years. About the Author: Dr. D.G. Hessayon Dr D.G. Hessayon's Expert books have made him the world's best-selling author on gardening. Born in Manchester, he was variously a horticulturist research scientist, university lecturer, artist and newspaper editor before launching the Expert series in 1959. In 1999 Dr Hessayon was awarded a Guinness World Record Certificate for being Britain's best-selling living author of the 1990s. He lives in Essex, and has two daughters and four grandchildren. Excerpted from The New Vegetable and Herb Expert by D.G. Hessayon. Copyright © 1997. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.: One of the most important changes in gardening since World War II has been the resurgence of interest in growing vegetables at home. The concept that it is only for the poor or the country dweller has long been swept away with the realisation that home-grown produce beats the shop-bought equivalent in three vital ways. Firstly, you can harvest at the peak of tenderness and flavour instead of having to wait for maximum yields like the professional grower. You can also serve vegetables within an hour or two of picking and with sweet corn, beans, asparagus etc. this can mean a new flavour experience for you. Finally, you can grow vegetables which do not appear in High St shops and you can sow top-quality varieties of ordinary vegetables which are not grown commercially. You can save money by growing your own – it has been estimated that an expenditure of £1 on seeds, fertilisers, canes etc. yields a crop worth about £9 at shop prices. But saving money is not the main motive for many – it is just a bonus from a hobby which provides a special thrill from growing and then eating your own. Most of the basic principles of vegetable growing have been with us for hundreds of years, but the subject doesn’t stand still. There have been several important developments since the earlier edition of this book appeared. Interest in herbs continues to expand and specially-bred baby vegetables have made their appearance in seed catalogues. Until recently growing vegetables nearly always meant long rows of plants, but now the idea of growing in pots, raised beds and even in the flower bed and shrub border has taken root. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Proper User Guide for a Veg PlotToo many gardening authors take time out to wax lyrical about seasons and the joys of blackbirds and dew on your runner canes. Their books end up as a decent afternoon's read, but difficult to use when you're trying to work out what's going wrong with your kohlrabi. This book is different. Veg are listed alphabetically with clear sections on selecting varieties, planting, looking after, harvesting and cooking, with a troubleshooting guide covering disease, pests, storage and the like. No nonsense, everything you need and easy to find. Rating: - The bees knees...Having just started with a vagetable patch in the garden, I was looking for, in effect an "idiot's guide" to vegetable growing (believe me, I needed it !) - this book is marvellous - helpful illustrations,easy to follow layout & packed with information on cultivation, preperation, eating, protecting from pests & diseases, the whole lot. The herb section is by no means as comprehensive as the veg part of the book, but it has inspired me to grow my own selection of herbs (in one of those very attractive "ornamental" wooden wheelbarrows,my wife's aunty got us for Christmas - bless) & hopefully add something a bit different, interesting & above all, tasty to the garden. I bought this at the same time as a far glossier, ... Read More: Rating:  - Vegetable & Herb Expert by D.G.Hessayon reviewI have always found the Expert Garden range of books to be my most valuable gardening books - clear, simple and easy to find what you want. Sadly they have not updated to metric units so I can no longer buy them as presents for budding gardeners, since the modern generation only know metric and there is nothing more discouraging than to use a book you cannot understand. I hope they will rectify this before long so that I can continue using them. Rating: - Great help to a novice growerI got this book when I decided to get my allotment, and I found and still do a great help. Fantastic pictures are illustrated with the information that goes with them. The book starts at the beginning which helps if you're a complete novice to vegetable growing. "Getting started" covers digging and preparing your land, what is the best seeds to buy and how to sow them. This section also covers the importance of crop rotation. Other section covers the growing of vegetables, covers greenhouse growing, border planting and cover pot and windowsill planting. Looking after vegetables section covers the dreaded weeding. But it also covers feeding, mulching and watering of the plants; also ... Read More: Rating: - Growing into an expertJust moved from London with a shady patio to a country acre, with greenhouse and allotment sized veg patch - and not had to buy a vegetable since March. I was worried gardening was one of those things you couldn't do by book-learning, but of the four tomes I picked up, this is the only one I would use. Brilliant, and inspiring confidence straight away - I'm buying the rest of the series! |
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