Grow Your Own Veg

You can’t beat just-dug carrots and crunchy crisp lettuce for taste and wholesome nutrition. In Grow Your Own Veg, RHS experts reveal the skills you need to nurture 40 different vegetables from plot to plate.

With her usual energy and enthusiasm, Carol Klein offers green-fingered advice for growing all your appetising favourites.

Grow your own VEG is by Carol Klein and the Royal Horticultural Society. It is published by Mitchell Beazley, Price: £16.99. ISBN: 978 1 84533 293 8.

It is a lavishly illustrated, easy-to-follow, practical and inspiring handbook on everything anyone ever needs to know to grow vegetables, salads, and herbs all year round.

Grow Your Own VEG complements and builds upon the information covered in the TV series and provides all the practical know-how to get you growing your own vegetables. Combining Carol Klein’s no-nonsense and enthusiastic approach to gardening, much loved by viewers of Gardeners’ World on BBC TV, with the horticultural best practice from the Royal Horticultural Society, this is a step-by-step guide to growing an aspirational but achievable range of vegetables.

Whatever the size of garden, this is a book to convert readers to the pleasures of growing and harvesting their own produce. From preparing a plot, planning what to plant, and how to grow any one of the 40 featured food plants, this is a book that vegetable enthusiasts can return to year after year, whatever their level of expertise.

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