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A Vegetable Gardener's Year

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'Much more than a vegetable gardeners book, it is a grow your own manual for nature lovers, food enthusiasts and anyone who loves to work with the elements.' www.ecohomeandgarden.co.uk'Brimming with an infectious passion for the outdoors life 'Dirty Nails' awakens the reader to the year-long joys of nature and the possibilities of self sufficiency, whether they live in the country or the urban jungle.' www.funkyfogey.com

Part 1
-Gardening With Dirty Nails
February
Week 1
- Frogs & bonfires
Cats
On disturbing a Queen wasp
Week 2
- Pond Action
Cabbages for mid-summer
Week 3
- Sowing strawberries
Tending broads
Week 4
- Boosting winter purslane
In praise of Sycamores
March
Week 1
- Preparing for potatoes
Preparing for kale
Week 2
- Carrots
Spring onions
Week 3
- First early potatoes
Peppers & tomatoes
Week 4
- Spring cleaning
Second Early Spuds
Week 5
- Tending globe artichokes
Planting figs
April
Week 1
- Cabbages
Week 2
- Maincrop potatoes
Ridge cucumbers
Week 3
- Tending... Strawberries
Kale
Carrots
Cucumbers
Week 4
- Watching & listening
May
Week 1
- Earthing-up spuds
Greenhouse slug patrol
Week 2
- Planting out kale
Looking after water-boatmen
Week 3
- Succession sowing
Bird-watching
Week 4
- Cucumbers
Beans
Feast & Fast
Apples
June
Week 1
- Sunshine & showers
Weeds & tomatoes
Week 2
- Cylindra beetroot
Week 3
- Downy mildew
A much needed present
Week 4
- Red cabbage
July
Week 1
- Harvesting shallots
Potato Blight
Week 2
- Harvesting garlic
Developing froglets
Working with nature
Week 3
- Tending carrots
Pruning Morello cherry
Week 4
- Salsify
Week 5
- Tomatoes
Butterflies
Potatoes
August
Week 1
- Path Clearing
Lifting & splitting globe artichokes
Week 2
- Wildlife-friendly strimming
Redcurrant cordial-cum-presse
Week 3
- China rose radishes
Cabbage whites
Week 4
- The passing of summer
Harvesting potatoes
Week 5
- Caterpillar plague
Potato scab
Bitter cucumbers
September
Week 1
- Cornelian cherry jam
Week 2
- Quality time in the garden
Week 3
- Kale
Toads
Edible gifts
Week 4
- Gathering leaves
Watching butterlies
October
Week 1
- Bindweed & horsetail
Week 2
- Planting spring bulbs
Week 3
- Strawberries
Alpine strawberries
Week 4
- Hoeing
Kestrels on the verge of winter
November
Week 1
- Tending figs
Butterfly boxes
Week 2
- Planting elephant garlic
Tending ice plant
Week 3
- Pruning apple trees
Planning asparagus
Week 4
- In the greenhouse
Watching Lesser Redpolls
Week 5
- Preparing the asparagus with a friend
December
Week 1
- Tending Buddleia
Harvesting kale
Week 2
- Help from the birds... and hinderance
Week 3
- The mid-winter lull
Week 4
- Rhubarb
January
Week 1
- Jerusalem artichoke fuseau
Wassailing
Week 2
- Making raised beds
Week 3
- Dynamite lettuce
Potting up ice plant cuttings
Week 4
- First early peas
Planning for Housemartins
Week 5
- Seeds
Radishes
Great Tits
Part 2
- Tales From The Garden
Part 3
- Jobs To Do Each Week
Part 4
- Veg On The Menu
Part 5
- Glossary Of Terms
Part 6
- Index.

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