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Organic Gardening Techniques

Released on 30th April, pre-order exclusive signed copies.

A comprehensive guide to gardening the organic way, from preparing the soil to caring for your crops.

Easy to use format, with information on getting started, sowing from seed, propagating, watering, crop protection and much more.

Essential gardening techniques are explained and illustrated with clear diagrams, helping you get the most from your productive garden.

Includes practical projects, including building a compost bin and potting bench to making cloches and cold frames.

Price: £12.99

Organic Gardening Techniques


Grow Organic Grow Organic
Never has there been a better time to start growing your own fruit and vegetables. Whether going organic is your passion, you hate supermarket shopping, or simply want the thrill of growing your own produce, organic gardening has somet5hing to offer everyone. The benefits to the environment, your health, your wallet and your tastebuds are indisputable.

Perhaps you just want to grown some organics herbs, fruit and vegetables in tubs in your own garden, or want to cultivate on a slightly larger scale. Written by Nick Hamilton, who is carrying on the organic tradition at Barnsdale Gardens, this directory will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about growing your produce organically.

Essential information on well known and unusual vegetable, herb and fruit varieties.

Complete instructions on sowing, planting, cultivating and pests and diseases

Health benefits of each food described.

Expert advice on organic-gardening techniques, soils, organic fertilisers and composts and organic pest controls.

Essential for novice as well as experienced gardeners.

Price: £14.99


Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
Hardback. HDRA

A major reference guide to gardening the natural way.

Created with the support of Europe's largest organic gardening organisation, this is the first fully illustrated, truly comprehensive guide.

Packed with expert advice and information on both ornamental and kitchen gardens, this is the essential reference guide for all organic gardeners - whatever their level of commitment.

Invaluable advice on, "Going organic" and incorporating organic principles into garden planning and design.

Practical information shows how to prepare the soil, sow, plant, propagate and harvest.

Specially commissioned photographs illustrate key organic principles.

Includes an easy-to-use reference section with an A-Z directory of vegetable crops and plant problems.

Price: £25.00

Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening


Controlling Weeds without using chemicals Controlling Weeds without using chemicals
Paperback. Jo Readman

A new and fun approach to weeds showing how to identify them and make the most of them in the garden. Looking not just at the problem of weeds, but at their many benefits too.

Identification of over ninety common and more rare weeds, with fascinating facts and some folklore.

Full advice on using organic methods for controlling weeds in all parts of the garden: in the lawn, the vegetable patch, the flower border and paths.

Colour photographs throughout, together with charts and tables for helpful hints and easy reference.

Price: £7.95


All About Compost
Paperback. Pauline Pears.

Recycling household and garden waste.

Over 160 informative and clear step-by-step photographs to illustrate all you need to know about making and using compost. Anyone can do it! Learn how to save money, help the environment and enrich even the smallest garden by recycling household and garden waste. There is plenty of practical advice on how to create a rich, fertile soil for growing healthy, beautiful fruit, vegetables and flowers.

Price: £6.95

All About Compost


Pests.  How to control them on fruit and vegetables Pests. How to control them on fruit and vegetables
Paperback. Pauline Pears & Bob Sherman

Written by presenters of TV's gardening series 'All Muck and Magic?', this practical book is a valuable aid for all gardeners interested in creating a safe, natural environment in which to grow healthy and tasty fruit and vegetables.

Price: £5.95


Gardening Without Water
Paperback. Charlotte Green.

If you are fed up watching your flowers, fruit and vegetables suffer during long periods without rain, then this is the book for you.

It shows how stunning and flourishing gardens can be ceated and maintained using only rainwater. Conservation, irrigation and mulching techniques are explained in detail and the book also includes a beautifully illustrated section on drought-resistant plants.

This book is a must for gardeners, environmentalists and all those who want to save on water bills.

Price: £8.95

Gardening Without Water


The Small Ecological Garden The Small Ecological Garden
Paperback. Sue Stickland.

This book will enable you to get the best from your garden using Nature to help you: choose the perfect plants for your soil and situation; feed them with your own natural compost; attract bees and butterflies by growing the right plants. A small pond will be used by birds and will attract other wildlife, while a bank or corner for wild flowers can both help preserve species and create an eye-catching feature. In such an ecological garden your plants will thrive without the use of harmful chemicals.

There are scores of full-colour photographs and the author is an expert organic horticulturalist who will inspire you to garden Nature's way.

Price: £5.95


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