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Grow your Own, Eat your Own: Bob Flowerdew's Guide to Making the Most of your Garden Produce: Bob Flowerdew's Guide to Making the Most of Your Garden Produceby: Bob Flowerdew October 16, 2008 |
List Price: £19.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £12.99 You Save: £7.00 (35%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £10.46 |
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A great, earthy, realist's guide to producing your own fruit and veg. I wonder if Bob Flowerdew's working title for this book was "Of course you can grow your own food!" It is definitely an antithesis to celebrity branded supermarket products!!
He recaptures some of the lost Victorian ideal of growing continous fresh and exotic foods throughtout the year with the basic cottage garden approach of providing food that is good enough to sustain the family, all brought into modern day life with very practical comments. Bob aims his approach at those who "believe in eating what you have rather than what you fancy" but shows very well that this can be diverse and interesting. For those of us that already live this way, the 100 pages ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The No-Work Garden: Getting the Most Out of Your Garden for the Least Amount of Workby: Bob Flowerdew September 16, 2004 |
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This is a brilliant gardening book. Bob goes straight to the point and puts back the fun into gardening - it's inspirational. Using Bob's advice I found an excellent nursery to buy plants instead of just getting them from a DIY centre - which not only supports a local business, I also got to speak to someone who knew their plants and I've come away with the healthist looking plants I have ever brought! I'm new to gardening and I'm finding the book a tremendous help and even my Mum, who has been gardening for years wants her own copy for Christmas!
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Complete Book of Vegetables, Herbs and Fruitby: Matthew Biggs, Bob Flowerdew, Jekka McVicar September 21, 2006 |
List Price: £16.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £11.13 You Save: £5.86 (34%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £9.49 |
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As a huge fan of 'The Gourmet Gardener' by Bob Flowerdew, I ordered this book and it too would have received 5 stars from me because it also contains a wealth of useful information (e.g. advantages and disadvantages of different varieties, companion planting).
However, the more I read it in detail, the more frustrating it became. For example, the section on garlic listed just three varieties - Oz Garlic Rosea, Oz Garlic White and Aussie White - instead of referring to the four colour types of white, rose, violet and red and their differing characteristics. Similarly, the sections on both potatoes and apples referred to common varieties in Australia - which is not much use to me in Northern Europe! All became clear to me when I read ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Bob Flowerdew's Complete Fruit Book: A Definitive Sourcebook to Growing, Harvesting and Cooking Fruitby: Bob Flowerdew February 17, 2000 |
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This is a truly excellent book. Each fruit is given good coverage, with recommendations as to variety and culture advice. It is also extensive in the range of fruits which are covered. There's even a few recipes thrown in. If you want to grow any sort of fruit then go for this book.
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Gourmet Gardener: Everything You Need to Know to Grow and Prepare the Very Finest of Flowers, Fruits and Vegetablesby: Bob Flowerdew May 10, 2007 |
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I agree with 3britsabroad that this is an inspiring read for even an experienced food grower (except I went out a bought 4 vines!). In fact I think its a great book for any seasoned grower that needs to refocus or tighten up on quality. I will try very hard to plant up my new strawberry bed "a stride apart" and my new blueberry bushes have had a bog environment created for them. Yet again Bob is showing us we can do better with out costing the Earth.
This would also be as excellent gift for any aspiring food grower as Bob's experience will save them many years of frustration and poor croppping at the same time as inspiring them to have a go! >>More Details |
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Bob Flowerdew's Complete Book of Companion Gardeningby: Bob Flowerdew October 28, 2004 |
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This is a good book with lots of interesting information on companion gardening. The idea being that you grow plants in the same area so that they work in unison rather than against each other and wildlife.
Within the book, there are lots of great photographs to give you ideas. There could have been more practical tips and a more measured,detailed approach to specific beneficial plants, which is why I am only giving it 3 stars. You see, a tip here and there interspersed between a large section of prose is not going to be as helpful as a table giving a more detailed explanation of the different type of plants and the beneficial wildlife each plant attracts. Nevertheless it is still a good book for the casual reader. >>More Details |
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Gardeners' Question Time - Plant Chooser (Gardeners Question Time) (Gardeners Question Time)by: John Cushnie, Matthew Biggs, Bob Flowerdew February 07, 2008 |
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As a British Expat living in New Zealand I picked up this book at the library with not great expectations. Well what an amazing suprise, it dealt with a great variety of plants from perennials, shrubs, trees, fruit etc. etc. Bob Flowerdew recommends 'vines' a wee bit too much but I can forgive him. I spent many an evening devouring this lovely book with fantastic descriptions of just why a specific plant is so great, for most of their descriptions where I shared a plant they had chosen the writers were spot on. I now have a long list of new plants that I will try and source here in Christchurch, NZ. Thank you, thank you, thank you I will now go and buy a copy for not only me but my mother and mother-in-law. THIS IS A SPECIAL BOOK CANNOT RECOMMEND ... Read More:
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Going Organic: The Good Gardener's Guide to Getting It Rightby: Bob Flowerdew September 20, 2007 |
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As a British Expat living in New Zealand I picked up this book at the library with not great expectations. Well what an amazing suprise, it dealt with a great variety of plants from perennials, shrubs, trees, fruit etc. etc. Bob Flowerdew recommends 'vines' a wee bit too much but I can forgive him. I spent many an evening devouring this lovely book with fantastic descriptions of just why a specific plant is so great, for most of their descriptions where I shared a plant they had chosen the writers were spot on. I now have a long list of new plants that I will try and source here in Christchurch, NZ. Thank you, thank you, thank you I will now go and buy a copy for not only me but my mother and mother-in-law. THIS IS A SPECIAL BOOK CANNOT RECOMMEND ... Read More:
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Organic Gardening Basics: Successful Organic Gardening in 5 Easy Steps (Pyramid Paperbacks)by: Bob Flowerdew November 03, 2008 |
List Price: £5.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £4.79 You Save: £1.20 (20%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £2.95 |
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As a British Expat living in New Zealand I picked up this book at the library with not great expectations. Well what an amazing suprise, it dealt with a great variety of plants from perennials, shrubs, trees, fruit etc. etc. Bob Flowerdew recommends 'vines' a wee bit too much but I can forgive him. I spent many an evening devouring this lovely book with fantastic descriptions of just why a specific plant is so great, for most of their descriptions where I shared a plant they had chosen the writers were spot on. I now have a long list of new plants that I will try and source here in Christchurch, NZ. Thank you, thank you, thank you I will now go and buy a copy for not only me but my mother and mother-in-law. THIS IS A SPECIAL BOOK CANNOT RECOMMEND ... Read More:
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Gardeners' Question Time: Techniques and Tips for Gardeners (BBC Radio 4)by: Matthew Biggs, John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank October 20, 2005 |
List Price: £25.00 Vegetarian Books Price: £18.99 You Save: £6.01 (24%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £7.92 |
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Radio 4's Gardeners Question Time seems to have been running since the very beginning of time, and over the years its experts have answered many thousands of questions. Yet, remarkably, the questions posed over all those years have tended to recur to such an extent that in fact, the experts have only ever been challenged on something like 350 different subjects, and they're all here in this book. So now you can become your very own gardening guru - read this book, and you too will be expert enough to appear on the the nation's favourite gardening radio show ! If your aspirations are more modest, you'd simply like to be a bit more knowledgable about gardening, or if you just want to pass an entertaining hour or two doing some armchair gardening ... Read More: >>More Details |
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