Grow Your Own Vegetables,9780711219632

Grow Your Own Vegetables

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ISBN13: 9780711219632
ISBN10: 071121963X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-05-16
Publisher(s): Frances Lincoln
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Summary

This revised, updated and expanded edition Joy Larkcom's classic guide to growing your own vegetables contains everything you need to know to create a highly-productive vegetable plot. It covers every aspect of vegetable gardening, including preparing soil; manures, composts and fertilizers; growing techniques; protection; pests, diseases and weeds; and making good use of space.The second half of the book provides cultivation information for over 100 vegetables, including site and soil requirements, cultivation, pests and diseases, and cultivars.

Author Biography

JOY LARKCOM is Britain's most respected vegetable garden maker and gardening writer. She has contributed to many magazines and newspapers, radio and TV programmes and has lectured all over the world. Her accolades include the Garden Writer of the Year award (three times); Lifetime Achievement Award from the Garden Writers' Guild in 2003, and the Veitch Memorial Medal for horticulture, the RHS's highest honour, in 1993. Her other titles for Frances Lincoln are Oriental Vegetables (ISBN 9780711236128) and The Organic Salad Garden (ISBN 9780711222045).

Table of Contents

Introduction 8(8)
Tools and Equipment
16(3)
The Vegetable Garden Site
19(7)
Soil, Manure and Compost
26(40)
Digging, Mulching, Weeding and Watering
66(15)
Seed, Sowing and Planting
81(26)
Protection
107(25)
Pests and Diseases
132(20)
Space Saving and Productivity
152(23)
Planning
175(15)
Feed the Family Plan
184(2)
Gourmet Plan
186(2)
Planning Information: annual vegetables
188(2)
VEGETABLE DIRECTORY 190(160)
Amaranthus, leaf
192(1)
Artichoke, Chinese
193(1)
Artichoke, globe
194(1)
Artichoke, Jerusalem
195(1)
Asparagus
196(2)
Asparagus pea
198(1)
Aubergine
199(2)
Bean, broad
201(2)
Beans, French
203(2)
Bean, runner
205(3)
Bean sprouts
208(2)
Beetroot
210(3)
Broccoli, Chinese
213(1)
Broccolis, hybrid
214(1)
Broccoli raab
215(1)
Broccoli, sprouting
216(1)
Brussels sprouts
217(2)
Cabbage
219(6)
Calabrese
225(1)
Carrots
226(5)
Cauliflower
231(3)
Celeriac
234(1)
Celery
235(3)
Chenopodium giganteum `Magentaspreen'
238(1)
Chicory
239(6)
Chinese cabbage
245(1)
Choy sum group
246(2)
Chrysanthemum greens
248(1)
Corn salad
249(1)
Courgettes
250(2)
Cucumber
252(5)
Endive
257(2)
Florence fennel
259(1)
Garlic
260(3)
Hamburg parsley
263(1)
Iceplant
263(1)
Kales
264(4)
Kohl rabi
268(2)
Komatsuna
270(1)
Land cress
271(1)
Leeks
272(3)
Lettuce
275(6)
Marrows (squash, summer)
281(2)
Mibuna greens
283(1)
Mizuna greens
283(1)
Mustard, salad rape, garden cress
284(2)
Mustards, oriental
286(2)
Onions
288(6)
Orache
294(1)
Oriental saladini
295(1)
Pak choi
296(2)
Parsnip
298(2)
Peas
300(5)
Pepper
305(2)
Potatoes
307(7)
Purslane, summer
314(1)
Purslane, winter
315(1)
Radish
316(2)
Rhubarb
318(2)
Rocket
320(1)
Saladini
321(1)
Salsify
322(1)
Scorzonera
323(1)
Senposai hybrids
324(1)
Shallots
324(2)
Spinach group
326(4)
Squash, winter, and pumpkins
330(3)
Swede
333(1)
Sweet corn
334(3)
Texsel greens
337(2)
Tomato
339(8)
Turnip
347(3)
SEASONAL GUIDE TO MAIN GARDEN JOBS 350(22)
APPENDIX
Quick-maturing vegetables
358(1)
Cut-and-come-again seedlings chart
359(1)
Vegetables for successional sowing
360(1)
Vegetables in the ground all winter
360(2)
Fresh vegetables for the Vegetable Gap
362(1)
Vegetables suitable for freezing
362(1)
Vegetables for particular situations
362(2)
Vegetables for flower beds
364(1)
Vegetable groups for strip cropping with cloches
365(2)
Mind the Gap
367(5)
Further reading 372(2)
Seed suppliers 374(2)
Acknowledgments 376(2)
Index 378

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