Download or read book Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden Allotment Gardening written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An allotment can be a source of abundant fresh fruit and vegetables for the home, as well as an oasis of calm for all the family to enjoy, but taking one on and learning how to grow your own can be an intimidating prospect. Alan Titchmarsh makes allotment gardening easy by explaining how to get the most from your plot with easy-to-follow, practical information and advice on what to grow, when to harvest and how to store your produce. * How to assess your plot and work with what you've got * Advice on layout and crop rotation * Expert guidance on care and maintenance * Directory of vegetables, fruit and herbs * Seasonal calendar of what to do when
Download or read book Grow your Own Fruit and Veg written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these turbulent times, Britain is rediscovering a passion for gardening and home produce - and the nation's favourite gardener is here to provide the definitive book on the subject. Alan Titchmarsh's comprehensive guide will tell you everything you need to know about fruit and veg and how to grow it, from herbs, baby veg, salads, and every-day fruits to gourmet and unusual varieties. As well as providing the key facts needed to yield good results and what to do when things go wrong, the text is sprinkled with Alan's personal observations, anecdotes, culinary tips and quirky historical uses. Alan's practical approach starts from scratch for those who've never grown their own before, but is also ideal for those with some experience who might be growing edibles in a new way - perhaps in a small space that needs to look attractive, or on a new allotment. Lavishly illustrated throughout, Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg offers inspiration, in-depth knowledge and practical advice, whether you are looking to be self-sufficient or just to grow a few items on your patio or window box. Originally published as The Kitchen Gardener: Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg
Download or read book Allotment Month by Month written by Alan Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the bestselling guide to making the most of your allotment, with seasonal advice, essential to-do lists, and more than 60 fruit and vegetable crop planners. Grow fresh, seasonal produce in your allotment or kitchen garden all year round with the bestselling guide from Alan Buckingham. Allotment Month by Month takes the uncertainty out of your harvest with clear, reliable gardening advice for every month of the year. In-depth crop planners show you when to sow and how to cultivate more than 60 herbs, fruit, and vegetables, including kale, rhubarb, spinach, strawberries, and apples. Month-by-month alerts help you guard against the season's garden pests and diseases to ensure a top-quality harvest. Prioritise key garden tasks, learn crop rotation techniques, and try step-by-step garden projects, such as sowing peas in guttering and making your own compost bin. This new edition has updated recommendations for the best varieties to grow and all the latest advice on pesticide use. Ideal for both urban gardeners and seasoned allotment owners, or as self-purchase or gift for first-time vegetable growers, Allotment Month by Month has everything you need to know to make the most of your plot.
Download or read book The Complete Allotment Guide Volume 1 Starting Out Growing and Techniques written by Jason Johns and published by Jason Johns. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" is the first in a series of books teaching you everything you need to know to get started growing fruit and vegetables. Whether you have an allotment, a smallholding or a vegetable garden at home, you will learn how to start growing in the ground and in containers.
This step-by-step guide starts from first principles, teaching you everything from how to choose an allotment to clearing weeds, coping with the weather and how to set your vegetable garden up. You learn exactly what to look for when choosing an allotment plus how to apply and how allotment sites work, which is useful for new allotment owners. Even if you are growing at home, there is plenty of information to help you get started growing.
Whether you are brand new to growing your own or whether you have dabbled, this book teaches you everything about owning and running an allotment. Written by a long term allotment owner, the information is first hand and gives you a real world view of having an allotment, packed full of valuable information to help you make the most of your allotment.
The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" goes into detail about how to work an allotment and grow fruit and vegetables. As you read this book, you will discover:
- How to compost, including what you can and cannot compost
- The common pests you will encounter and how to deal with them
- The various problems you may encounter and how to overcome them
- How to grow from seeds plus what F1 and heirloom seeds are
- When to feed your plants and what fertilisers to use, including how to make your own
- What companion planting is and how it benefits you and your plants
- Why you must rotate crops on your allotment and how to do it
- How to run an allotment with children so they can enjoy it too
- Different gardening techniques so you know how to look after your vegetable garden
- Ways to maximise productivity from your allotment while minimising the amount of work you have to do
- Vegetable garden jobs
- Fruit garden jobs
- What to harvest
- What to sow
- Greenhouse jobs
Download or read book Royal Gardeners written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Titchmarsh takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of Britains royal gardens from medieval times to the present day. Taking in existing royal gardens as well as many that now only exist in paintings, Alan uncovers the stories behind the gardens and the colourful monarchs who created them. From Hampton Court Palace to Kew Palace and Gardens, to Osborne House and through to the modern day developments at the Prince of Wales' home at Highgrove, Alan takes a highly personal canter through Britains gardening heritage. Fully illustrated with original plans, designs, letters, planting records and full colour diagrams of the major surviving gardens, this is a sumptuous book charting some of the most outstanding gardens in Britain.
Download or read book Love Your Garden written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much-loved broadcaster the author has returned to his gardening roots as presenter of ITV1's "Love Your Garden". This title looks back on all twelve gardens we saw in the first series, which span across a variety of styles from a cottage garden, a country garden and a city garden through to a seaside garden and a formal garden.
Download or read book The Complete Allotment Guide Volume 1 Starting Out Growing and Techniques written by Jason Johns and published by Complete Allotment Guide. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" is the first in a series of books teaching you everything you need to know to get started growing fruit and vegetables. Whether you have an allotment, a smallholding or a vegetable garden at home, you will learn how to start growing in the ground and in containers. This step-by-step guide starts from first principles, teaching you everything from how to choose an allotment to clearing weeds, coping with the weather and how to set your vegetable garden up. You learn exactly what to look for when choosing an allotment plus how to apply and how allotment sites work, which is useful for new allotment owners. Even if you are growing at home, there is plenty of information to help you get started growing. Whether you are brand new to growing your own or whether you have dabbled, this book teaches you everything about owning and running an allotment. Written by a long term allotment owner, the information is first hand and gives you a real world view of having an allotment, packed full of valuable information to help you make the most of your allotment. The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" goes into detail about how to work an allotment and grow fruit and vegetables. As you read this book, you will discover: How to compost, including what you can and cannot compost The common pests you will encounter and how to deal with them The various problems you may encounter and how to overcome them How to grow from seeds plus what F1 and heirloom seeds are When to feed your plants and what fertilisers to use, including how to make your own What companion planting is and how it benefits you and your plants Why you must rotate crops on your allotment and how to do it How to run an allotment with children so they can enjoy it too Different gardening techniques so you know how to look after your vegetable garden Ways to maximise productivity from your allotment while minimising the amount of work you have to do As well as this, you get a comprehensive guide to sowing seeds showing you when to sow different types of vegetable seed, when to plant outside and when to harvest crops. You also get a month by month guide telling you what jobs to do at an allotment, including: Vegetable garden jobs Fruit garden jobs What to harvest What to sow Greenhouse jobs If you are new to growing vegetables, this is the book for you. Whether you are growing at home or growing at an allotment, this book is full of useful information helping you get started and grow successfully.
Download or read book Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden Vegetables and Herbs written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all the tricks to grow vegetables from seed, maintain mature plants, keep the pests at bay and produce a sustainable crop in your vegetable garden. Includes: * A-Z of vegetables and herbs, how to grow your own and harvest them * advice on feeding, watering and combating pests, weeds and diseases * practical tips on preparing and improving soil * how to manage your plot to ensure year-round produce Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions guide you through the basic skills and on to the advanced gardening techniques, providing everything you need to create and maintain your dream garden.
Download or read book Mr Gandy s Grand Tour written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Alan's spellbinding new novel THE GIFT, set in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, is available to pre-order now!** Timothy Gandy has kept his lifetime's ambition secret for forty years. Now, suddenly (if tragically) released from the hen-pecked tedium of his ordinary existence, he is unexpectedly free to realize his dreams. He will embark on a Grand Tour of Europe, following in the footsteps of the aristocrats of the eighteenth century. He anticipates high art, culture and pleasant weather. He never expected to encounter new friendships - and possibly even love - along the way. It seems that Mr Gandy has embarked on the journey of a lifetime . . . READERS ARE LOVING MR GANDY'S GRAND TOUR: 'Another heartwarming story from Alan Titchmarsh' - 5 STARS 'Well worth reading' - 5 STARS 'What a sweet tale this was' - 5 STARS 'Loved it!' - 5 STARS 'Enchanting' - 5 STARS
Download or read book Love and Dr Devon written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not easy being a doctor. Ask any GP. The profession may have a glamorous image, but there is little real glamour in haemorrhoids and hernias, athlete's foot and dermatitis. So when retirement looms for Christopher Devon, he is only too happy to shake off the aroma of antiseptic and look forward to a new life. More time to travel, more time for his orchids, and time, perhaps, to meet a new woman. But how to find one? There is no shortage of female patients fluttering their eyelashes (and even the odd male), but what Dr Devon wants is a soulmate as much as a bedmate. Perhaps the internet can help? He seeks and he finds - sometimes with disastrous consequences. But, eventually, love comes to Dr Devon. And then his troubles begin. His former wife has problems of her own, soon to be visited on her ex, and his two grown-up children do not take kindly to the changes in their own circumstances that will be the likely outcome of Dr Devon's dalliances. One gold digger is all that a daughter with a large family and a gay son with a high standard of living need to sever them from their inheritance at 'Bedside Manor'. And passion in retirement? Oh please! Will Dr Devon find true love and live happily ever after? Or will the bitter pill of reality prove a fly in the ointment of his dreams?
Download or read book Alan Titchmarsh the Gardener s Year written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gardener's Year is not about quick fixes, design makeovers or hard drudge, but simply about knowing what you should be doing in your garden, when, and why. Month by month Alan gives us the low-down on garden maintenance enabling you to keep your garden looking its best all year round. In-depth and packed full of useful gardening tips, it includes advice on everything from what seeds you can plant out in your vegetable plot in May, to how to keep your hanging baskets looking stunning in September.
Download or read book Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden Container Gardening written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert advice on hanging baskets, window boxes, patio pots and sink gardens. Advice on compatibility of containers and plants such as bulbs, climbers and fruit and vegetables, and how to arrange them for maximum visual and olfactory impact. Includes: * style solutions for all types of garden * comprehensive advice on plant selection * guidance on seasonal care, repotting, watering and feeding * tips on how to achieve year-round colour and scent Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions guide you through the basic gardening skills and on to the advanced techniques, providing everything you need to create and maintain your dream garden.
Download or read book Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden Garden Design written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. They cover everything from the initial planning of your garden on paper to how to make your design a reality with planting, laying and construction guides.
Download or read book Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden Small Gardens written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful gardens can be created in the smallest spaces, and in this inspiring and practical guide Alan Titchmarsh shows how to transform even the tiniest outdoor area into an attractive garden. With ideas for maximizing space and advice on garden design, planning and plant selection, this is the definitive handbook for anyone wanting to create a private haven in limited space. * Ideas for front gardens, side passages, courtyards, balconies, rooftops and windowsills * Tricks to make small spaces seem larger * How to use every inch of space, including containers * Easy-to-follow landscaping plans for all garden shapes and styles * Guidance on growing vegetables, herbs and fruit in small plots
Download or read book Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden Wildlife Gardening written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most successful gardens work with nature to create natural environments in which jobs such as pollination and pest control are left to the wildlife. In this definitive guide, Alan Titchmarsh shows how to create natural ecosystems in your garden to encourage beneficial insects, birds and other wildlife and establish the best environment in which your garden will thrive. * Design ideas and planting plans for wildlife-friendly gardens * Wildlife gallery showing common birds, mammals, amphibians and insects and how to attract them to your garden * How to create natural habitats * Recommended trees, shrubs and flowers for biodiversity * Seasonal tasks for the year
Download or read book My Secret Garden written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After moving from the Barleywood garden where he hosted BBC Gardeners' World for seven years, Alan Titchmarsh set up home in an old farmhouse a few miles down the road, and went about planting his own private eden away from the public eye. In this horticultural memoir Alan finally reveals all about this secret garden, explaining with his trademark warmth the personal stories behind its design and evolution. Accompanied by beautiful photographs taken by Jonathan Buckley throughout the eight years in which the garden has been made, My Secret Garden allows us access to all of the successes and failures of this diverse and ambitious project. Comprising many different styles and spaces - from an acre of formal beds and ponds to wild flower meadows and a stunning winter garden - Alan's tales of development and cultivation will be applicable to all gardeners. With the plot encompassing fruit trees, a handsome greenhouse and wildlife-friendly plantings, gardeners of all styles and levels of expertise will find something to enjoy. Driven by Alan's infectious and informative style, My Secret Garden is a fascinating, amusing and inspiring book.
Download or read book Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden Grow Your Own Plants written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most exciting aspects of gardening is growing your own plants from scratch. In this definitive guide, Alan Titchmarsh shows how simple it is to propagate plants by following a few basic techniques. Learn how to produce a flourishing garden filled with ornamental and edible plants, at very little expense. * Demystified, down-to-earth approach to propagation * Easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step diagrams * A–Z directory with recommended propagation techniques for each plant * Key tips on taking cuttings, sowing seed, layering and division * Guidance on promoting growth of young plants
