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Your Organic Allotment, by Ian Spence & Pauline Pears. A one stop book that teaches everything you need to know to create a modern allotment and how to provide delicious, chemical-free, organic food for all your family, all year round. Packed with expert advice in association with Garden Organic, the UK's leading charity for organic growing.
From the decision to take an allotment on, detailed step-by-step techniques with clear colour photos to illustrate, how to prepare and protect so you can have fun in maintaining your horticultrual oasis while growing helathy, nutritious food. Also detailed instructions on how to grow over 80 different kinds of vegetables, herbs and fruits, an at-a-glance, year-round guide to what to do and when. Each entry also has a really handy and novel symbol system to indicate how hard something is to grow, how much water it needs and light requirements. You will also learn about crop rotations, tackling pests and diseases naturally, manure and mulch, recycling, companion planting, when to harvest and lots more.
Ian Spence is a writer and broadcaster and was right-hand man to BBC Gardener's World presenter Geoff Hamilton. He is author of bestselling RHS books and lives in Rutland Leicestershire.
Pauling Pears is an expert with over 20 years in Garden Organic (HDRA). She edits The Organic Way magazine and is an established author, journalist, broadcaster, lecturer and lives in Leamington Spa. Pauline also acts as an advisor to The Organic Gardening Catalogue and is a thoroughly lovely, fun person!
160 pages, large softback, colour photography and illustrations.
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