Pippa Greenwood's Organic Kitchen Garden - Softcover

Throughout the summer thousands of Gardeners' World viewers in Britain will become hooked on watching Pippa Greenwood transform an unpromising patch of bare soil into a productive and appetizing fruit and vegetable plot. Pippa's Organic Kitchen Garden is the book that tells viewers just how she does it. Furthermore it fills in the details TV doesn't have the time to feature. In her engaging and highly informative way Pippa dispels any notion that you need to be an expert to produce rewarding crops of flavoursome food. She advises on all you should consider when planning the plot especially if like her you have a young family and lead a busy life. Using the garden at her own newly acquired home Pippa shows how to organize the space to grow your favourite crops clear the weeds make compost and prepare and improve the soil. She covers all aspects of sowing planting and everyday maintenance before moving on to give all the individual details needed to grow her selection of vegetables fruit and herbs. As far as possible she uses organic methods that are easy to apply in the average back garden and when she feels strongly she doesn't fight shy of expressing personal preferences - yellow courgettes for instance find no favour in her kitchen!

Written from personal experience the author shows how anyone can grow delicious, organic produce starting from scratch. She includes instructions on the cultivation of a kitchen garden, from planning the space and preparing the soil, to sowing, planting and protecting the crops.