Growing Food

by Anna Pavord

In this revised and updated edition of her book The New Kitchen Garden, bestselling gardening writer Anna Pavord tells us all we need to know about growing fruit and vegetables. She describes how food crops can make a decorative as well as delicious addition to the garden, explains simply and clearly how to assess site and soil and devise a planting plan, and offers ideas for flexible contemporary variations on the traditional kitchen garden. She includes 12 plans for vegetable gardens ranging from a tiny roof garden through a Mediterranean courtyard and a vegetable patchwork to an exuberant potager. She goes on to give detailed information on growing a wide range of vegetables, herbs and fruits, recommending the best varieties for looks as well as taste, and providing recipes so that you can make the most of your harvest.

Genres: Gardening, Food

208 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2011

About the author

Anna Pavord is the gardening correspondent for THE INDEPENDENT and the author of widely praised gardening books including PLANT PARTNERS and THE BORDER BOOK. She wrote for the OBSERVER for twenty years, has contributed to COUNTRY LIFE, ELLE DECORATION and COUNTRY LIVING, and is an associate editor of GARDENS ILLUSTRATED. For the last thirty years she has lived in Dorset, England where she is currently making a new garden. Constantly experimenting with new combinations of flowers and foliage, she finds it a tremendous source of inspiration. -http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/anna...

Reviews

[Rachel Burton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is fantastic to anyone who grows or dreams of growing their own fruit and veggies. The best thing about is that it covers every sort of garden - from those with lots of space, to courtyards, to patios. You'd be surprised how much food you can grow in pots.

Plus lots of delicious recipes for your homegrown food as well.

Cannot recommend highly enough!

[Stgertrude · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is nothing new under the sun with this book, except that instead of growing vegetables and fruit, now you grow food. So there are cooking recipes in the book for each varieties (déjà vu). I will still stick with the Grow Your Own Vegetables from Joy Larkcom that I found the best.

[Rose]

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