ORGANIC VEGETABLE GROWING

A practical, authoritative guide to producing nutritious and flavourful vegetables from your garden or allotment

Robert Milne

• PRICE £12.99
• EXTENT 240 pages
• BINDING Paperback
• FORMAT 234 x 153 mm
• ISBN 978-1-905862-38-2
• PUB DATE 28 May 2010
• IMPRINT Spring Hill
• BIC CODE WMPF, WMQF
• CATEGORY Gardening
• TERRITORIES World Rights

KEY POINTS

• An authoritative and practical guide based on the author’s thirty years of organic gardening experience, including twenty years of self-sufficiency and eight as a professional gardener growing veg and fruit in walled gardens
• Techniques apply to any size or scale of garden
• Includes particular information on gardening with children, whether in schools or families
• Looks forward to the increasing relevance and necessity of productive gardening as we are obliged to adapt to global trends, including climate change and diminishing oil resources that adversely affect food production

ROBERT MILNE grew all the vegetables and most of the fruit for his family for ten years, exploring the most efficient way of doing everything, modifying some tools and developing some new techniques. In 2003, frustrated by the lack of information about soil in gardening books, Robert took a degree in soil science at the University of Reading. Robert has worked with vegetable growers in Norway, Scotland and Iceland and in 2002–3, he worked with children in primary schools making and managing sizeable vegetable gardens.

CONTENTS

• 1.Motivation: some reasons for food gardening
• 2.Tools and back care
• 3.Clearing the ground
• 4.Digging
• 5.Planning the garden
• 6.Maintaining soil fertility
• 7.Preparing beds and sowing seeds
• 8.Vegetables one by one
• 9.Weeds
• 10.Cover crops and green manure
• 11.Bonfires