Product Description

Homegrown food is simply better: fresher, healthier, purer. You can taste it in tomatoes, plucked from the vine still warm from the sun, or in baby carrots pulled from the earth, the dirt brushed away. Once you’ve tasted really fresh produce, you’ll never go back. Organic Kitchen Gardening is a complete guide to planning, planting, and caring for your own vegetable patch. Each chapter focuses on a different crop, and explains what should be happening each month in your garden. Useful diagrams and photographs illustrate the various techniques and processes. And a monthly diary reminds you what needs to be done, and includes tips on everything from composting and weed control to plant health care and watering.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1225883 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

About the Author
The editor of Gardens Illustrated, Juliet Roberts has been an enthusiastic organic vegetable grower since helping her dad on his allotment as a child. She now has her own allotment in Bristol, UK, where she loves experimenting to find the best varieties for flavor. Having followed the progress at her favorite walled kitchen gardens at Audley End in Essex through the seasons, Juliet is keen to pass on all she has learnt from her mentor, Mike Thurlow, its head kitchen gardener.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Customer Reviews

Bloody Good!
As I browsed through this lovely book, I envisioned my own garden brimming with produce. It's a great tool for starting a garden, but also just a wonderful book to look at. The photography is very good and the chapters make total sense.

There is a bit of difference in produce due to the England/America thing, but it doesn't deter from the usefulness of the book. You just won't find the same varietals as what's in the book for some species. An example is in the Potato chapter.

If you're a first time gardener, read this book first and then get started. Going organic from the first shot is the best option for you, your family and for the earth!

All in all, I just love this little book. It's not huge by any means. Just a simple book with great ideas. Nothing fancy. But, that's what Organic Gardening is all about. Simplicity at its finest!