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If you are thinking of growing your own organic vegetables, or already 'grow your own' and are keen to go organic, then this is the book for you! Drawing on the author's considerable experience and expertise, this accessible, easy-to-follow book is packed with everything you need to know to grow your own organic vegetables. Highly illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs, complete beginners as well as more experienced gardeners will find this book both inspiring and instructional.

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May 09 Gives advice on how to gain bumper harvests while keeping your edibles free of synthetic chemicals. It covers soil care, compost making and good organic practice as well as growing everything from salad crops to spuds. Grow Your Own Feb 09 In the last few years more people have been trying to grow plants in a more natural way without the dubious assistance of chemicals. If you want to grow your own vegetables and help the environment (as well as your own health) then this is a place to start. It didn't take me long to discover that it is an extremely good place to start if you are a beginner. For a slim volume, it covers an impressive array of topics and answers a number of important questions. To start with you need to take a look at your garden and see what is right for you, taking soil, weather, aspect, size etc into consideration as well as aesthetics. Make your own compost and discover exactly what you can and cannot put into it, sow seeds, raise transplants and discover what is meant by good organic practice. There are sections on a large number of different vegetables from the traditional to the exotic, and find out how to plant them and look after them, with notes on pests and how to get rid of them harmlessly. This is a book ostensibly for the British gardener, but anybody with a similar temperate climate ought to get plenty out of it too. I was impressed by the way the author managed to cut through the obfuscation of all the things an expert knows and most of the rest of us don't need to and come up with a readable, sensible modern book. Myshelf.com

karenplatt.co.uk: This book is part of a practical gardening series from Garden Organic. It is one of the latest books in this series, published in 2008. Growing vegetable without chemicals is the best way. This book shows how to grow organically. With vegetables being sprayed with chemicals many times over, travelling miles to reach us, sitting in storage - it makes sense to grow your own. Half of this 64-page booklet is taken up with where, how to and suggestions for organic gardening. The remainder looks at the vegetables themselves. The instructions are easy to follow and are illustrated with full-colour photographs. There is little here for experienced vegetable growers, but this is a useful book for beginners. Organic Garden & Home: Drawing on her considerable experience and expertise, Pauline Pears has written an accessible, easy to follow book packed with everything an individual needs to grow their own organic vegetables and sow their way to a successful plot. Highly illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs, complete beginners as well as more experienced gardeners will find the guide both inspiring and instructional. Pears, an enthusiastic organic vegetable grower who currently cultivates two organic allotments as well as growing fruit and vegetables at her home, has written several books including 'Grow Organic' and 'Your Organic Allotment'. The launch of The Garden Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables by Pauline Pears is part of Garden Organic's Dig for Victory campaign, aimed at mobilising Britain's gardeners and non-gardeners to turn their green space, be it garden, allotment, grass verge, patio pot or window box, over to growing fruit and veg. Myshelf.com: In the last few years more people have been trying to grow plants in a more natural way without the dubious assistance of chemicals. If you want to grow your own vegetables and help the environment (as well as your own health) then this is a place to start. It didn't take me long to discover that it is an extremely good place to start if you are a beginner. For a slim volume, it covers an impressive array of topics and answers a number of important questions. To start with you need to take a look at your garden and see what is right for you, taking soil, weather, aspect, size etc into consideration as well as aesthetics. Make your own compost and discover exactly what you can and cannot put into it, sow seeds, raise transplants and discover what is meant by good organic practice. There are sections on a large number of different vegetables from the traditional to the exotic, and find out how to plant them and look after them, with notes on pests and how to get rid of them harmlessly. This is a book ostensibly for the British gardener, but anybody with a similar temperate climate ought to get plenty out of it too. I was impressed by the way the author managed to cut through the obfuscation of all the things an expert knows and most of the rest of us don't need to and come up with a readable, sensible modern book. Gives advice on how to gain bumper harvests while keeping your edibles free of synthetic chemicals. It covers soil care, compost making and good organic practice as well as growing everything from salad crops to spuds.-Grow Your Own

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Pauline Pears lives in Leamington Spa. She is Head of Knowledge Transfer, and editor of The Organic Way magazine, at Garden Organic. She has been involved in the practice and promotion of organic growing for over 20 years, and is still a passionate organic vegetable grower. She and her husband cultivate two organic allotments, as well as growing fruit and vegetables at home.Pauline has written several other books in this series.

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