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.

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.

Whether you want to cultivate the classic English rose or grow a crop of climbing French beans, this work recommends over 3,000 trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, bedding plants, fruits and vegetables for every garden situation. It features over 1,500 colour photographs and descriptions of AGM plants.

This manual supplies information on growing conventional and more exotic fruits, from soft, tree and warm temperate fruits to nuts and currants.

This text provides the techniques needed for growing both popular and more unusual vegetables, including salad greens, brassicas, roots and tubers, onions and herbs. It treats each vegetable concisely with guidance on preparing the soil, sowing, transplanting, tending, harvesting and storage.

Offers specific growing information on over 500 varieties of plants. This book caters both for the first-time and experienced grower by combining basic information and trouble-shooting with more advice on cultivating particular species.

Encouraging birds into your garden requires an understanding both of birds and of gardening. Combining two specialist sets of advice, this book is a unique collaboration with The Wildlife Trusts and the Royal Horticultural Society, providing answers to your queries about how to make your garden bird-friendly.

Providing step-by-step instructions to all aspects of propagating greenhouse and garden plants and shrubs, this text includes coverage of seeds, roots, layering, stems, modified stems and grafting.

Based on the regular weekly column in the Daily Telegraph , this little book will provide guidance to all gardeners on their appropriate schedule. The book takes us through the year on a week-by-week basis. Covering planting and pruning, harvesting and fertilizing, the book deals with all the familiar flowers, shrubs, fruit and vegetables.

The RHS Gardener's Notebook encourages you to identify strengths and weaknesses of your garden - there's graph paper for planning, crop rotation charts, space to record harvest yields plus a journal for recording day-to-day activities in the garden.

Suitable for the beginner or busy gardener who wants to get results, this work contains colour images with step-by-step instructions, which provide practical information and advice.

Illustrated with step-by-step artworks, this guide dispels myths about organic gardening and explains all aspects of organic garden management, including the planning of an organically-balanced environment, soil preparation, pests and diseases, weed control, crop care and cultivation, and also contains a year round checklist for seasonal planning

An illustrated gardening guide. It features practical information on planting and caring for shrubs, creating beautiful flowering displays all year round, shrubs for walls and more.

Suitable for the beginner or busy gardener who wants to get results, this work contains colour images with step-by-step instructions, which provide practical information and advice.

This edition covers almost every illness that plants can suffer and what to do when things go wrong. It provides techniques for identifying and dealing with pests, diseases and disorders in ornamental plants, vegetables, fruit and lawns.

Celebrates the garden through poetry and botanical art, spanning centuries and the globe. This book contains an array of gardening classics, illustrated throughout with botanical prints and engravings. Presented in a slipcase format, it is suitable as a gift for any lover of art, literature or gardening.

Fitting easily into a pocket or handbag, this is a handy aide-memoire in which gardeners can make notes about plants of interest. Owning this book will put an end to jotting down plant names on the backs of old envelopes.

Includes ten must-have plants for your garden. With advice on growing conditions and plant care, this book allows gardeners to work out what's best for their garden and focus on varieties. It covers a range of plants, from bulbs, geraniums, hostas and lilies to roses, small trees, fuschias and shade plants.

A record book for gardeners, with space to record your garden's development over five years. It is designed to allow the user to see their garden's progress clearly: each month is separated into three sections (early, middle and late) so that you can record when each plant is at its peak.

Suitable for the beginner or busy gardener who wants to get results, this work contains colour images with step-by-step instructions, which provide practical information and advice.