'Fans of Food for Free', useful for carrying in a rucksack, can see over 100 edible plants in this volume which are featured together with recipes and other interesting culinary information. With details on how to pick, when to pick and regulations on picking.

Tells how to grow vegetables and plants in allotments, window boxes, window sills, and gardens. This book also tells how to grow herbs, what to grow when you don't have a garden, and growing plants with kids.

Monty Don's intimate record in his own words and photographs of the garden he has created from scratch over the past fifteen years.

Gives advice that gardeners need to grow a year-round supply of healthy fruit and vegetables for their table. This book starts with planning what to grow and where to grow it, whether that's an allotment, a series of containers, raised bed or veg patch, then how to get the best from your soil, and how to get started.

A biodynamic sowing and planting calendar. It shows the optimum days for sowing, pruning and harvesting various plants and crops, as well as working with bees. It is presented in colour with clear symbols and explanations. It also includes a pullout wallchart which can be pinned up in a barn, shed or greenhouse as a handy quick reference.

A guide to growing your own salads, herbs, veg and fruit. Suitable for beginners, it contains practical and seasonal advice, many hints and tips for successful growing, delicious recipes and Weekend Projects to help you make the most of your outdoor area, however small.

A fascinating portrait of country life across the centuries, as told by the nation's greatest diarists.

Higher yields in vegetables and flowers - better flavours, stronger displays, heightened colour. This guide computes everything you need to know about the daily influence of the Moon and the planets in the garden. With its full 15-month daily calendar, it creates an essential timetable for the year ahead and a fine means of self-discipline for keen gardeners. New edition.

Our modern world is infinitely more complex than the one previous generations inhabited, and the pace of life much quicker. This title celebrates the rites and rituals that for centuries have marked the seasons around the world.

* The follow-up to 2008's reissue of Mr Middleton's Digging for Victory * A facsimile reissue of a 1945 wartime gardening guide * By the wartime BBC gardening guru, Mr Middleton * Full of fascinating period advertisements and handy tips for money-saving vegetable and fruit growing * Perfect Christmas gift for credit-crunch times

Helps you learn how to grow vegetables from seed, maintain mature plants, keep the pests at bay and produce a sustainable crop in your vegetable garden. This work includes advice on feeding, watering and combating pests, weeds and diseases. It offers practical tips on preparing and improving soil.

This informative and entertaining small volume contains engravings by contemporary artists and a foreword by Prince Charles. Twelve chapters endeavour to capture the atmosphere of successive months, encompassing the minutiae of plant and wildlife behaviour in the garden and hedgerow. The author celebrates the intimacies of a rural world in an idyllic setting, but with an eye to modern existence ..

The author created Shabby Chic: a peaceful, practical way of living that embraces a respect for the things in our lives we hold dear and keeps them at the heart of our homes. This work features chapters according to location, and begins with the author's breathtaking Los Angeles residence.

The simple home is calm and uncluttered, with each item carefully chosen. This book includes a range of ideas that enable you to create homes that are sustainable as well as stylish. It explores calm Colors, Zen-inspired simplicity, and reclaimed or ethically sourced Materials.

This updated edition contains new chapters on baby vegetables and the modern easy ways to grow food crops. There is an enlarged chapter on herbs, with details of new varieties which have appeared in the past few years.

With more than 500 stunning colour photographs and 464 pages of practical advice, The Home Book is the decorating guide you will turn to time and again, whether you're planning a major renovation or making small changes . Filled with insider tips from industry professionals on everything from proportion and flow to favourite colours for various rooms and moods (complete with swatches), as well as

Celebrates the transforming magic of trees, exploring the 'fifth element' of wood as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives.

A guide that illustrates the beauties of wild flower species across Northern Scotland. It discusses the various species and includes notes of how to identify them. It also examines the habitats in which each species is to be found, including factors of geology, climate, history and plant competition.

An illustrated, practical beginner's handbook that provides the practical know-how to get growing your own vegetables, from preparing a plot, planning what to plant, and how to grow any one of the 40 featured food plants.

Explores nature's vast palette of plants, where they come from, what grows naturally in which conditions, but most importantly how they are used in gardens all around the world and how you can use them in your garden. This title helps you plan your planting schemes and offers advice on the best plants for various situations.