The Ten-Minute Gardener - A Month-By-Month Guide to Growing Your Own

An illustrated month-by-month guide to growing fruit and veg, working in ten minute blasts. A good gift for the green-fingered and time-constrained.

About the author

Val Bourne has been a fanatical organic gardener since the age of five. In her twenties she had a lowly post in vegetable research, and she has always grown her own fruit and vegetables. She has a large allotment, and fruit and vegetable patches amongst her extensive flower garden in the high reaches of the Cotswolds.

Val also serves on several RHS panels, judging flower trials, and she's an Ambassador for The Hardy Plant Society. She lectures in this country and abroad and writes regularly for The Daily Telegraph, Saga ,The English Garden, Garden Answers, Amateur Gardening and for the Crocus website.

Her book The Natural Gardener won Practical Book of the Year from The Garden Media Guild in 2005 and her latest book, The Living Jigsaw, explains how to have a lovely garden without using chemical props, something she's pioneered.

Val was has won multiple awards and is winner of the Dr David Hessayon Columnist of the Year award at the Guardian Media Awards 2018.

Summary

'Will delight every gardener' - BBC Gardener's WorldThe perfect book for those who garden in snatched moments from the Garden Media Guild Awards 2020 Journalist of the YearWhether you have a spacious plot or a small patch in the garden, this handbook is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand.

Foreword

A beautifully illustrated, month-by-month guide to growing your own fruit and vegetables in just ten minutes, and the perfect gift for busy gardeners.

Product details

• Authors: Val Bourne
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781787631069
• ISBN: 978-1-78763-106-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; NATURE / Plants / General, GARDENING / Trees, GARDENING / Flowers / General, GARDENING / Flowers / Wildflowers, NATURE / Plants / Trees, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture, GARDENING / Fruit, Allotments / Community gardens, Allotments, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Commercial horticulture, Horticulture