101 Essential Tips Growing Vegetables

by Zia Allaway

A pocket-sized guide offering bite-size information at a great price, 101 Essential Tips makes learning quick and easy, offering speedy answers to key questions.

101 Essential Tips: Vegetable Growing guides you through the basics of growing your own vegetables, whether you have a large plot or a small urban garden. Discover the techniques, including organic methods, from improving your soil and sowing seed for the first time, to harvesting homegrown produce at its best.

Summarizing the essential tips needed for vegetable growing, this guide is perfect for the absolute beginner, giving fully illustrated top tips that can be grasped in an instant.

Paperback

Published May 1, 2015

About the author

Zia Allaway is a freelance gardening editor, writer and author, working across a range of magazines, newspapers and book titles for companies including Future, The Daily Telegraph, Quarto Publishing, and Dorling Kindersley.

Reviews

[Veronica Ika · Rating 4 out of 5]

Do you love vegetables? Are you a vegetarian or just trying to eat more veggies? Ever think to grow your own vegetables? Do you have a patch of unused land in your yard and think it is time to make use of it? Are you interested to build up basic skills and even be an expert in growing vegetables? Or maybe you just, like me, love reading informative and inspirational tips in colourful and illustrated books? Then, this pocket book is right for you!

True to its title, this book is jam-packed with 101 tips, grouped into 5 sections: getting started; preparing your site; essential techniques; growing your own; and plant health. Each tip provides detailed information in no more than a bite-sized paragraph along with close-up pictures and their description. Collectively, they constitute easy-to-follow and step-by-step instructions and everything you need to know about growing vegetables.

Overall, this book makes a good pocket guide to help you learn about growing vegetables quickly and easily. It even gives you about 50 choices of vegetables to grow!