The Practical Guide to Allotment Gardening: Growing Vegetables and Fruit: Step-by-Step Techniques for Cultivating Organic Produce on Your Plot All Year Round - Couverture rigide

Lavelle, Christine; Lavelle, Mick

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ISBN 10 : 0754834727 ISBN 13 : 9780754834724

Editeur : Lorenz Books, 2019

Synopsis

New updated edition 2019. Step-by-step techniques for cultivating organic produce on your plot all year round. This newly updated edition guides the budding allotment gardener through every step of successful growing from early planning to planting and harvesting. Information on tools, equipment and soil management follows, along with a chapter on what to grow where, crop rotation, companion planting and growing both outdoors and in a greenhouse. Techniques such as sowing, propagation, feeding, watering, pruning, harvesting and storing are examined with easy- to-follow instructions and examples. There are directories of vegetables, fruit and herbs that outline the specific requirements of different crops while a section on plant health helps to deal with common pests and diseases and carry out weed management. A season-by-season calendar of care ensures you do the right jobs at the right time.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christine and Michael Lavelle are both lecturers in horticulture at Writtle College, UK. Together they have won the Garden Writers Practical Book of the Year Award for their books How to Create a Wildlife Garden and Organic Gardening (both Lorenz Books). Christine Lavelle is a lecturer in horticulture and plant ecology at Writtle University College, Chelmsford, Kings College, Cambridge and Beth Chatto Gardens, Colchester, in England, UK. She trained at the National Trust for Scotland's Threave School of Practical Gardening and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew where she was awarded the Sir Joseph Hooker Prize by David Attenborough and the Kew travel scholarship by Professor David Bellamy to study plant conservation in the Galapagos Islands. Christine was assistant Head Gardener at Levens Hall topiary gardens in Kendal and Hardy Ornamentals team leader at Askham Bryan College in York. Christine's main area of work is teaching practical and applied horticulture on a variety of Royal Horticultural Society qualifications. Michael Lavelle has been a keen observer of nature since his early childhood. He studied horticulture at Askham Bryan College in York, England, and environmental management at Wye College in Kent. He worked as a landscaper before becoming a horticultural lecturer in the 1990s. Michael has designed and constructed several educational exhibits at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show on the subject of plants and their uses, achieving gold and silver medals. A senior lecturer in landscape management, he is a book author and magazine writer on the subjects of plants and gardens as well as a broadcaster on local radio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lorenz Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754834727
• ISBN 13: 9780754834724
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible