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The Essential Allotment Guide - The Book
The Essential
Allotment Guide
Chapter List
- Why Get an Allotment
- A Brief History of Allotments
- How to Find and Choose an Allotment
- How Much Time Does an Allotment Take?
- Pests and Problems
- Health and Safety
- Children on the Plot
- Planning the Plot
- Clearing the Plot
- Constructions on the Plot
- Livestock
- Tools, Equipment and Techniques
- Manures, Fertilizers and Compost
- Vegetables
- Fruit
- Sowing and Harvesting Chart
- Saving Your Own Seed
- Glossary
- Further Information and Contacts
- Index
Get the best out of your allotment and enjoy the taste of real food!
Aimed at those looking for or having an allotment, this book will enable the complete novice to grow their own successfully.
To get you started, we're giving away a selection of Suttons Seeds worth £10.00 with every copy plus a £5.00 Off voucher when you spend £25.00 or more online with Harrod Horticulture.
- Get your own allotment - top tips to help you best the waiting list
- Clear an allotment and safely dispose of the rubbish
- Plan your plot for maximum production
- Build compost bins and raised beds using recycled materials
- Reduce food miles and carbon footprint
- Keep the children safely occupied and helping
- Give your family pesticide-free organic food
Praise for The Essential Allotment Guide
"Britain's greatest allotment authority ."
Emma Townshend in the Independent on Sunday
"When I started on my allotment 2 years ago, being a complete novice I needed all the advice I could get. I bought a number of books on keeping allotments but found that page after page of instructions were impossible to assimilate.
Then I bought Essential Allotment Guide How to get the Best out of Your Plot and realised that this is what I had needed all along. The information is presented as if you are chatting to the author, with tips and humorous asides which make it much more easy to remember . If you only have only one book for your allotment make it this one" Carolina Nanny
"This is an excellent introductory guide to starting up and allotment with lots of useful tips written in a clear and lively way. As a total newcomer to allotment gardener, I found this invaluable." K Glover
Now with £10.00 worth of Suttons seeds and a £5.00 Voucher when you spend £25.00 with Harrod Horticulture Online - everything from Jam Making Equipment to Seeds and Gardening Equipment.
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Sale Now On! Thanks to a deal with our publisher and with Suttons Seeds we're offering all our books with FREE DELIVERY and £10.00 Worth of Seeds FREE plus a £5.00 off when you spend £25.00 with Harrod Horticultural Online. And we even sign every copy!
- Low Cost Living
Live better and greener on less money, real, practical frugal living help for all of us. - Vegetable Growing Month by Month
The UK bestselling, simple beginner's guide to growing your own vegetables from a real gardener. - The Essential Allotment Guide
Everything you need to know about getting and running an allotment from John Harrison described as 'Britains greatest allotment authority' by Emma Townshend in the Independent. - Easy Jams, Chutneys & Preserves
Does just what the title says - make your own and discover real flavour. Like all our books, practical help for the new cook and tips for the more experienced. Includes tips on rescuing your jam when things go wrong! - Vegetable Fruit & Herb Growing in Small Spaces
If you've only a small garden or even no garden, you can still grow your own. Practical advice based on our own experience growing in a concrete back yard and a small suburban garden. - How to Store Your Home Grown Produce
When we realised that many people didn't know the basics, let alone the 'tricks' of storing produce we decided to write this book. 30 year's experience in a book for you.
Available from all major bookshops OR signed by the author when you follow the links above.
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Feed the family from your plot!
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Reviews for Vegetable Growing Month by Month
John's book offers down to earth advice in a friendly chatty way, keeping an eye to simplicity (and the "have a go spirit") but also offering useful knowledge to help ensure success - Sal
You can spend three times as much as this book costs and get lots of glossy photo's and an impressive looking bookcase., but that's all. I doubt if this Book will spend much time on the bookcase anyway. - Mr R Cannon
Reviews for The Essential Allotment Guide
I've been an allotment holder for years and wish I'd have
had this to hand when I started out. So glad I've got it now, who says you
can't teach an old dog new tricks.
In his work Mr Harrison's love for gardening comes forth as does his enthusiasm
for cost effective food growing. Not a coffee table book but a real book for
reading and using.
Easy to read and informative. Great for the first time allotment holder and the experienced grower alike. It takes you through the seasons and holds your hand along the way. Not full of fancy photos, but instead concentrates on the veg growing itself in a straight forward writing style. Really good value for money
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