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Vegetable Growing Month-by-Month – highly recommended book

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Vegetable Growing Month-by-Month is a fantasic book you’ll really use a lot if you want to grow vegetables. No fancy colour photos but you don’t need them with this practical guide to growing your own.

I have a very well thumbed copy.

Vegetable Growing Month-by-Month: The down-to-earth guide that takes you through the vegetable year


As it’s only a few quid, treat yourself to this one too – The Essential Allotment Guide: How to Get the Best out of Your Plot

Great gardening book

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

The Complete Garden Expert: The Expert you’ve been waiting for – All the gardening Experts condensed and updated into one enlarged volume by Dr D G Hessayon (1 Mar 2012)

I own several D G Hessayon books – this one has it all in one book!

The Complete Garden Expert: The Expert you’ve been waiting for – All the gardening Experts condensed and updated into one enlarged volume

From the Back Cover
Over the years the wide range of gardening Experts have become the world’s best-sellers.
Now they have been condensed into a unique one-stop guide to gardening – the Expert
you have been waiting for.

Learn about your plants – there are colour pictures and Expert-style wording
for flowers, trees, shrubs, vegetables, fruit, roses and herbs.

Learn the proper way to do all those gardening jobs.

Find out about garden styles and the secrets of good design.

Learn about all the features in your garden.

Put a name to plant troubles and weeds plus the up-to-date way to control them.

Learn how to name your soil and improve its quality.

Find out how to choose the right tools.

Reliable, easy-to-follow advice and information from EXPERT Books – the world’s
best-selling gardening books.

Booze for Free Book

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Fab book – Booze for Free – will set you back just under £7 but teach you how to make free booze! Covers cordials to wines to beers, to spirits infused with a variety of different flavours. Takes the mystery out of home brew!

Booze for Free


To entice you in, here’s the ingredients for

BAY AND ROSEMARY ALE
1.5kg malt extract
10 large rosemary sprigs
20 bay leaves
250g Golden Syrup (or honey)
Packet ale yeast
13 litres water
2 tablespoons of golden syrup for priming

Follow recipe here or buy the book