Keter Apex 6 x 4ft Shed

Keter Apex 6 x 4ft Shed – great size for allotment – doesn’t take up too much room!
Easy, two person, assembly
Virtually maintenance free
Weather & UV-resistant (doesn’t fade)
Complete with flooring, single fixed window, skylight & ventilation ducts
Assembled dimensions 216H x 130W x 190Dcm

This shed will last for years and years. It doesn’t need painting so it’s virtually maintenance free! A smashing little shed!
Window, plus skylight for extra internal visibility
Floor panel, to keep rain and pests out
Venting for air circulation
Padlock hasp for security (padlock not included)
Guarantee: limited 7 year warranty

Make & Mend: A Guide to Recycling Clothes and Fabrics



Welcome to Make & Mend! This book shows how, with a little knowledge and creativity, you can make a wide range of fantastic items from those old clothes and fabrics you can’t bear to throw away.
Whether its a cushion cover from a coat, a tote bag from a torn dress or a neck tie from a negligee, this book will show you how to make it. A bit of know-how and a few ideas, and you can create gorgeous items with a completely personal stamp.

Packed full of projects, from aprons to curtains, bags to jewellery, we show you how to turn a pile of scraps into wearable, beautiful and personalised items. Each project offers a step-by-step guide to making successful pieces, as well as a wealth of information and encouragement to be as creative as possible and push your skills in a direction you might never have thought of. Included is a list of basic equipment, illustrations, tips and advice as well as a thorough grounding in the basics of hand and machine sewing, and a fully stocked resources section.

Each project is designed and illustrated to be as fun, interesting and as beautiful as possible. And the best bit is…you made it yourself!

Allotment Manual – in the style of a Hayes Manual –
Paul Peacock was the founder editor of Grow It! and Home Farmer magazines. He has written more than 20 gardening books and has been involved with many allotments. He introduced nationwide beekeeping allotment training and was involved with creating a school allotment in Manchester, receiving grants from various sources. He has recently become a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time

Allotment Manual: The Complete Step-by-step Guide

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Lasagna Gardening – Lasagna Gardening at Amazon
Another great book about no dig gardening advocating a layered bed system.

Another recommended lazy gardener book is :
Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent

The Bee Garden: How to Create or Adapt a Garden To Attract and Nurture Bee

The Bee Garden: How to Create or Adapt a Garden To Attract and Nurture Bees

Bees play a vital and irreplaceable role in pollinating our flowers, fruits and vegetables.


The more bees in your garden the healthier, more productive and more pleasant a place it will be.


Yet bees are declining rapidly and many people, even if they do not wish to keep bees themselves, are asking what can be done on an individual basis to help the bee. This book is a response to that request. It will demonstrate in one accessible volume how each of us can play our part in providing a bee-friendly environment, no matter how much gardening space and/or time we may have.


It includes:


* How bees forage, what bees you can expect to find in your garden and what plants are best for them. :


* Why honey bees are so important; what they need to thrive and how they detect and access those requirements; and what varieties of plants are best suited to provide those needs.


* How the gardener can offer and maintain a bee-friendly garden, followed by a season-by-season account of what beefriendly plants are in flower and when, and what jobs the gardener can be doing during these times to help bees thrive.

* A gazetteer of selected bee-friendly plants, arranged by type of plant in seasonal sub-sections.


* Illustrative, practical planting plans, including a culinary herb garden, a potager, a wild flower garden, and a 3 seasons traditional border.

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Chas and His Rock’n’Roll Allotment is a book by Chas from Chas and Dave.

Chas and His Rock ‘N’ Roll Allotment
features a series of vignettes and anecdotes about his life as both a famous musician and amateur gardener. –Welwyn Hatfield Times

This has to be the most hilarious gardening book I’ve ever read. –Mike Hallowell, The Shields Gazette

Judging by this book the cheeky Cockney musician seems to be at home as much in the allotment as he is on stage. –Rural Life Magazine.

Chas and His Rock n Roll Allotment is a gardening book like no other. Written by Chas Hodges, better known as half of musical duo Chas and Dave, the book is full of funny stories and anecdotes interspersed with the author s tips for growing your own . The book is aimed at the novice gardener and aims to prove that hoeing and sowing can be an enjoyable way to while away an afternoon and that tending a garden should be fun, rather than a chore. Chas s pearls of wisdom are drawn from personal experience of getting his hands dirty, rather than text book gardening techniques, and his light hearted approach makes the book an easy read. So if the idea of Sunday roast accompanied by your own home grown vegetables appeals to you, this book tells you how. And if all that digging proves to be just too much, you can always settle down with a pint of beer and enjoy the tongue-in-cheek humour of a born raconteur.

I think that means he knows how to rabbit. 🙂

Always nice to find a new author you like reading –
Charles Dowding has several books that I know will be of interest to readers of GardenandGardener.co.uk

Charles Dowding Books at Amazon

Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Course
– Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Course – NOT RELEASED YET but you can preorder
Paperback: £11.21
1 Mar 2012

Charles Dowding, the master of no-dig gardening, developed his highly successful
methods of vegetable growing through 30 years experience of growing and selling
vegetables and extensive experiments. Through his courses at Lower Farm in Somerset
and his three previous books, he has won a keen following. Beginners and experienced
veg growers alike find that his methods work and that he opens their minds to
new possibilities. Now he has distilled the essence of his courses and ideas
into one book. In it you will find out how to grow vegetables the Charles Dowding
way. Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Course is both a straightforward guide to success
and an inspiring source of ideas for achieving a more productive vegetable garden
for less effort.
About the Author
Charles Dowding grew up on a dairy farm in Somerset. After graduating from Cambridge
he worked for a hotel in the Inner Hebrides before starting to grow organic
vegetables commercially on the family farm in the early 1980s. In 1990 he left
behind what was by then a large market garden to live in France and Zambia.
Returning to Somerset in the mid 1990s, he established a bed and breakfast and
vegetable growing business at Lower Farm in Shepton Montague. Charles’s salad
bags are now the main output from his two-acre garden of permanent raised beds
and fruit trees. Charles also runs his vegetable-growing courses at Lower Farm
and lectures and writes books on his unique growing techniques

How to Grow Winter Vegetables
– How to Grow Winter Vegetables

Paperback: £9.36
21 April 2011

Organic Gardening: The Natural No-dig Way
– Organic Gardening: The Natural No-dig Way

Paperback: £8.80
1 Sep 2010

Salad Leaves for All Seasons: Organic Growing from Pot to Plot
– Salad Leaves for All Seasons: Organic Growing from Pot to Plot

Paperback: £9.86
20 Mar 2008

Organic Gardening
Kindle Edition: £8.89
3 Feb 2011

His gardening methods sound interesting! I love the idea of not digging even clay!
He’s got a website you can visit too

The key to his no dig method?
The initial action of mulching with thick layers of cardboard, compost and manure in the first year leads to a massive boost in long term fertility and results in remarkably little weed growth. Subsequent years see much less time and compost needed, while soil continues to improve under dressings of one to two inches compost or well rotted manure.

The Winter Harvest Handbook
The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods
Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters.

Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.

Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules, crop management, harvesting practices, and even marketing methods in this complete, meticulous, and illustrated guide. Readers have access to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality crops on Colemanis own farm.
His painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers, homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners who seek to expand their production seasons. A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season, even in climates where conventional wisdom says it ijust can’t be done.

The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year-round Vegetable Production Using Deep-organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses

These other books are also worth a look:

How to Grow Winter Vegetables

The Polytunnel Book: Fruit and Vegetables All Year Round

How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel
– This book explains how to come through winter with plenty of vegetables stored, fresh harvests to make, and also has advice for growing plants to withstand the winter, for eating in spring during the hungry gap season of April, May and early June.
Highly recommended –