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The Kitchen Garden: Simple Projects For The Weekend Gardener

The Kitchen Garden: Simple Projects For The Weekend Gardener
By Richard Bird

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Nothing beats the taste of fresh fruits and vegetables grown in your very own kitchen garden. In this superbly illustrated book, Richard Bird shows you how to make edible delights an integral part of your garden design in 20 step-by-step projects. Create a fragrant herb border, cultivate chiles in pots, fill hanging baskets with trailing tomatoes and edible flowers, or be adventurous and train beans or fruit trees to grow over arches and arbors.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #360499 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-02
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 112 pages

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About the Author
Richard Bird is an expert on gardening and plants whose many books include "Organic Gardening", "Fences and Hedges", and "The Scented Garden". He is coauthor with George Carter of the bestselling "Projects for Small Gardens" (also Ryland Peters & Small).

Jonathan Buckley is a well-known photographer specializing in gardens and plants. His many books include "The Kitchen Garden".

Customer Reviews

Inspiring and easy to read4
I found the gardens in this book to be visually inspiring. There are many beautiful color sketches & photos of garden projects (some of which are potager gardening, climbing fruit and vegetables, container gardening), plus brief DIY instructions to turn the ideas into tangible efforts. I just wish I had more land to incorporate more of the ideas that are - particularly the arched arbors with attached fruit trees. A plus is at the back of the book there is contact information for companies that provide seeds, arbors, etc., so you can look beyond your local nursery for materials.

I do wish this book was longer(only 70 pages).

Glad I took a look4
I purchased another book on kitchen garden design and this title popped up as recommended. I am glad I took a look. I love the vertical inspirations such as the pear tunnel, apple arch and the currants growing along the wall. I also found that growing strawberries along the outside edge of your raised bed was an "A-ha" idea.