The Rhs Allotment Handbook & Planner

by Simon Akeroyd, Geoff Hodge, Sara Draycott

Written by the Royal Horticultural Society's foremost fruit and veg experts, RHS Allotment Handbook & Planner provides the lifestyle-changing advice that gardeners need for growing a year-round supply of healthy, edible crops for their garden. With RHS tried-and-tested varieties, this book covers what to grow, how and where to grow it. Exploring best practice growing advice, allotment life and its numerous benefits, this book also includes a month-by-month calendar of tasks to guide gardeners through the year.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2015

About the author

Simon is an author having written over 30 gardening books, and contributes to national gardening magazines and newspapers. He has also featured as a TV presenter and on radio. He was previously Garden Manager for both RHS and National Trust. He was also a BBC producer.

He currently lives in South Devon.

Reviews

[Ru · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was initially disappointed by this - there didn't seem a lot to it. As time's gone on, however, I've come to appreciated its straightforward simplicity as a reference.

My main complaint is that it could do with a lot more on diseases, how to avoid them, selection of disease-resistant varieties, and how to proceed if you find disease in your fruit and veggies. It could be argued this is a topic for a separate book, but given how important things like crop-rotation and variety selection are for avoiding disease, I felt at least an extra ten pages on this would have given it a lot more substance. Different strategies such as no-dig and various composting strategies could also have done with more detail.

Still, I'm glad I bought it.

[Kirsten Lost 2022 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative, I'll be going back to this again and again!

[Ditch Townsend · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully laid out and very well written. But more chatty and less organised than I had hoped - you might have to make notes to reorganise some key information for yourself, or it'll disappear into the prose just when you need to find it.