Allotment Month By Month

by Alan Buckingham

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.

Genres: Gardening

352 pages, Hardcover

Published February 7, 2019

About the author

Alan Buckingham is a freelance writer, editor, gardener, and photographer. He has over twenty years' experience in illustrated publishing, both as an editor and as an author, and has worked on countless information books, interactive CD-ROMs, and websites. In recent years he has written chiefly about gardening and photography, his two main interests. "The Kitchen Garden" and "Grow Fruit" are illustrated with many of his own pictures.

Alan is a long-time kitchen gardener. Every summer he proves himself incapable of heeding his own advice and consequently grows far more fruit and vegetables than he and his family could ever hope to eat. Should he ever be given the opportunity to have his time again, he would happily swap his career in publishing for one as a head gardener.

Reviews

[Katey Lovell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Invaluable advice for a novice allotmenteer. Will be referring to this book all the time!

[Jennifer Carson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, just got my own allotment and this is going to help a lot.

[Jessica Sullivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you’re new to gardening, or new to gardening in the UK, this book is phenomenal

[Keith Summers · Rating 5 out of 5]

As it says month by month information. I can drop into the information as and when I want to.

[Joanna Bartlett · Rating 5 out of 5]

A bible for all budding gardeners! Perfect to dip into.