The Garden Organic guide to growing vegetables
By: [Pauline Pears]
Contributors: Garden Organic (Organization)
Publisher: Search Press Ltd.; Search Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781844480883
Subjects: Organic gardening; Vegetable gardening
Other titles: Guide to growing vegetables; Growing vegetables
Description: An illustrated guide to growing organic vegetables that includes advice on soil preparation, composting, sowing and planting, mulching, and working with nature.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Before you start; title: Getting started; title: Looking after the soil; title: Making garden compost; title: Ways of growing vegetables; title: What to grow; title: Sowing seeds; title: Raising transplants; title: Good organic practice; title: Mulching and cover crops; title: Protecting your plants; title: Working with nature; title: The vegetables: French beans; title: Runner beans; title: Broad beans; title: Peas; title: Beetroot, chard, leaf beet and spinach; title: Brassicas; title: Oriental brassicas; title: Carrots; title: Parsnips; title: Sweet corn; title: Lettuces; title: Other leafy salads; title: Onions, leeks, garlic and shallots; title: Potatoes; title: Tomatoes; title: Courgettes, pumpkins, squashes and marrows