The Allotment Book

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Crowned the ‘queen of herbs’ by Jamie Oliver and one of Rick Stein’s food heroes, Jekka McVicar is the UK’s leading organic herb grower. The ideal gift for the green-fingered gardener or budding botanist in your life, Allotment Handbook shows that you are more than capable of growing delicious and thriving fruit and vegetables at home!

Allotments are an environmental asset, both for wildlife and for the health and well-being of plot-holders, and they add texture to lives and communities, while soil is possibly mankind’s most precious resource.

if, like me, you didn't pick up a lifetime's worth of gardening tips from your ancient relatives, e.

The first book, Vegetable Growing Month by Month, has become one of the most popular gardening books in the UK because it gives straightforward advice for growing vegetables. The hard stuff - constructing sheds, compost bins, cold frames, fruit cages, ponds, seating and play areas selecting crops - what and how to grow, from parsnips and peas to chilli peppers and lemon grass cultivation techniques - digging, sowing, feeding, weeding and harvesting, plus troubleshooting pests and diseases the allotment calendar - extensive, month-by-month look at what's in season, jobs for now and looking ahead. In New York, the City Farms project revived the Victory Garden zeal of the 1940s, organizing the production, marketing and distribution of fresh food among disadvantaged neighbourhoods from over 30 community gardens. As a newcomer to allotment gardening, you may want to start by growing some easy vegetables that will give you a great yield with the least effort.With this guide to hand, you'll have a prize winning plot in half the time and be the envy of all the 'old hands'.

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). From the 1950s onwards, enthusiasm for allotments began to wane in the UK as a result of greater affluence, higher employment and the wider availability of food supplies, and many plots, even whole sites, were under-used, neglected or abandoned.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Some sites are privately owned – by churches or public utilities, for example – and the best way to find out how to rent one of these is to ask an existing tenant.

The priorities of these fresh recruits were often focused more on the quality of life, rather than survival itself. You are guaranteed the sharing of fresh food, expertise, gossip, fun and friendship, which goes to prove that the allotment is a microcosm of today’s society without walls.

This wonderfully illustrated book celebrates the blood, sweat and joy to be had in ‘growing your own’ in an allotment. My aim is to help you achieve this vision of utopia and this book series may just be the key to help you unlock the gate, take one giant step onto your new plot and have the confidence and tools to help you understand what working the land actually entails. Medwyn Williams, Chairman of the National Vegetable Society and member of the Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. So many people give up in their first year because it is too much or they don’t get the results they hoped for.