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The A-Z of growing & cooking fruit and veg.


Homegrown is a brand new 132-page A-Z guide offering detailed advice for growing over 70 different crops, including all the major fruit, veg and herbs.
The publication is designed to provide the novice gardener with all the advice and know-how they need to begin growing their own fresh produce whether they have an allotment, small veg patch in the back garden or no more than a sunny patio with a few containers.

The growing of each fruit, vegetable and herb is detailed in easy to follow sections which take the reader from sowing and harvesting to storing, preparing and cooking. Each section includes advice on the best varieties to try, essential growing tips, sowing and harvesting calendar, as well as delicious recipes and essential nutritional information.
Kitchen Garden cookery expert, Roxanne Warrick provides her top tips for enjoying each of the 70 crops mentioned, while Kitchen Garden gardening experts Steve Ott and Emma Rawlings, lifelong allotment gardeners themselves, provide the detailed advice on growing.

Read the introduction, and see page samples on www.mortonsbooks.co.uk

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Homegrown will also be available from all W H Smith stores from 22nd May.

132 pages • A4 • perfect bound, glossy book.


KGAdmin

On sale date change:
Due to a problem with W H Smith distribution, Homegrown won't actually be on sale in W H Smith stores until the 8th June onwards.

You can however, pick up a copy today online from our secure store - post free.


KGAdmin

Dear All,
every new book that comes out about growing fruit and veg seems to be aimed at 'beginners'. I should have thought all the threads on here and the fact that you now have so many members exchanging the wisdom of experience, reveals that what's lacking out there is a worthwhile book for experienced growers. I can't think of any recent publications of real use to anyone who's reasonably well past the 'beginner' stage.

Giulia

I do so agree with you.
There is definitely a place for beginners' guides - especially to create enthusiasm. Where they often fall down is in the lack of detail (and realism, too). In my years managing an allotment site I saw innumerable keen new gardeners disappear when it became clear that you didn't just sow and harvest; there was a lot of (often enjoyable) work in between.
I think there are a lot of excellent books about for the more experienced vegetable grower. Personally I always swore by Joy Larkcom's "Vegetable from Small Gardens", now expnded to:

http://transitionculture.org/book-revie ... kcom-2003/

All her books are brilliant - arousing enthusiasm and providing knowledgeable information.

For other members' favourites have a look at:

viewtopic.php?t=2949&highlight=larkcom

Alan