Vegetables and Fruits
Books and CD-ROM's

• Gardening books
• Garden Design
• Vegetables and Fruits
• Specific plants
• Construction books for the garden.

This book offers practical information and tips on all aspects of allotment gardening. Beginning with the basics, the book gives advice on planning and laying out a new plot, improving the soil and sowing from seed. A comprehensive directory of vegetables, herbs and fruit gives useful information on which varieties to plant and their cultivation, while a chapter on pests and diseases gives advice on protecting plants without using chemicals. Interspersed throughout are practical projects and tips for the allotment gardener.

A new edition of the classic gardening handbook details a simple yet highly effective gardening system, based on a grid of one-foot by one-foot squares, that produces big yields with less space and with less work than with conventional row gardens.

Presents the basic principles of bio-intensive gardening in concise, easy-to-understand terms accessible even to a gardening beginner. By implementing bio-intensive techniques and working in harmony with natural garden cycles, gardeners will soon produce yields up to four times greater than those obtainable with conventional methods, in a fraction of the growing space. Sustainable gardening is an environmental solution for the new millennium and this work helps gardners contribute to that solution - in their own back garden.

Over 160 informative and clear step-by-step photographs illustrate all you need to know about making and using compost. Anyone can do it!

Learn how to save money, help the environment and enrich even the smallest garden by recycling household and garden waste. There is plenty of practical advice on how to create a rich, fertile soil for growing healthy, beautiful fruit, vegetables and flowers.

Shows how to grow and harvest up to forty different vegetables in season all year round.

Useful and decorative, commonplace yet indispensable, herbs have a place in every part of the garden. They can serve as border perennials, groundcover, foundation plants or bedded-out annuals. Their garden value is as varied as their traditional culinary and medicinal virtues. This handbook discusses the myriad ways in which herbs can be used in the landscape.

This book features 30 very different planting plans to suit every situation, from tiny terrace to large plot. There is a reference table of over 200 herbs that offer colour, texture and shape.

This friendly guide to homegrown herbs is perfect for beginners, featuring plans for simple garden projects ranging from outdoor garden beds to window boxes and container gardens. Growing instructions for over 30 herbs are rounded out with ideas for garden planning and maintenance.

This manual supplies information on growing conventional and more exotic fruits, from soft, tree and warm temperate fruits to nuts and currants.

A guide to choosing and growing garden fruit. This covers the selection and care of tree and soft fruit, including pruning, pollination and pests, and a section on shop-bought fruit.