Grow Your Own Vegetables - How to Grow, What to Grow, When to Grow

Opening with the persuasive case for growing your own vegetables - from reducing your carbon footprint to improving your health and bank balance - this book goes on to present concise instructions on how to cultivate a successful and satisfying vegetable garden, ending with a comprehensive directory of vegetables.

About the author

Rachelle Strauss has been writing about gardening, environmental and green issues for a number of years. She is the author of "Self Sufficiency: Household Cleaning" and writes for various magazines about ecological issues. Rachelle lives with her husband and their daughter in rural England. Check out her blog and website http://myzerowaste.comHeather Gorringe founded her natural gardening company Wiggly Wigglers (www.wigglywigglers.co.uk) 20 years ago. Today they sell many products and offer advice on sustainable living. The company has produced a series of ‘How to’ videos, runs a Facebook group and broadcasts an award-winning weekly podcast. Wiggly Wigglers was the UK’s Small Business Champion of 2005 and in 2008 won the Dell Global Small Business Excellence award for using technology.

Summary

Opening with the persuasive case for growing your own vegetables - from reducing your carbon footprint to improving your health and bank balance - this book goes on to present concise instructions on how to cultivate a successful and satisfying vegetable garden, ending with a comprehensive directory of vegetables.

Product details

• Authors: Rachelle Strauss, Strauss Rachelle
• Assisted by: Heather Gorringe (Foreword), Gorringe Heather (Foreword)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2014
• EAN: 9781783611331
• ISBN: 978-1-78361-133-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 161 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Digging and Planting; Digging and Planting; Green Guides; Tips & Hints Digging & Plantin
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Lifestyle, The environment, Self-sufficiency & 'green' lifestyle, Self-sufficiency