The Kitchen Gardener

This guide shows how to grow vegetables and fruit in such a way that they enhance the appearance of your garden rather than detract from it. The garden can be designed on ornamental lines to avoid the dull, utilitarian look of a vegetable plot or allotment. By means of detailed layouts, the author shows how practical yet pleasing designs for the kitchen garden can be achieved. Other topics covered in the first part of the book - the section on techniques - include soil preparation, seed-thinning, sowing, transplanting and winter storage. The second part comprises A-Z crop guides for vegetables, herbs and fruit and the last part contains appendices on vegetable spacings, sowing and planting times. It shows the reader how to grow vegetables and fruit in an "ornamental" way, so that they are integrated into the overall design. All the main, practical aspects of vegetable and fruit-growing for the kitchen-garden are covered in this text.