The Little Book of Advice for Fruit & Veg Gardeners - by Daphne Ledward (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

An indispensable little book to help you get the most from your garden, and answer your most pressing questions.

To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. - Alfred Austin

In the multifaceted world of gardening, the same questions arise time and time again: how do I sow my own vegetables? When and how should I plant my garden to get the best fruits?

The Little Book of Answers for Fruit & Veg Gardeners will guide you with time-honored, practical advice, whether you're planting gardens that you hope will explode with seasonal harvest year after year, or taking your first steps developing the green fingers that will allow you to grow your own produce.

Packed full of tips and easy to follow advice that will help gardeners enhance their skills, develop new ones and answer questions such as, what sort of soil is best for your garden, how to select the right fruit or vegetables for your space, and most importantly, how to nurture, care for and grow your garden or allotment year after year.

Also available: The Little Book of Answers for Flower Gardeners

About the Author

Daphne Ledward is a prolific writer and broadcaster on all aspects of gardening. She started her gardening career with BBC Radio Lincolnshire and has been a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time and Classic FM's Gardening Forum for 18 months. She has also appeared on television programmes such as Gardeners' Direct Line (BBC 1), By Day (Sky 1), Homes and Gardens Livetime (Granada Breeze), Grass Roots (Meridian) and How Does Your Garden Grow? (UK Style/BBC 2), and was the gardening 'expert' on Radio 2's Jimmy Young Show.