Gardening Book Reviews

No Dig Organic Home & Garden: Grow, Cook, Use & Store Your Harvest By Charles Dowding & Stephanie Hafferty Published by Permanent Publications ISBN: 978-1-85623-301-9 I have included the No Dig Organic Home & Garden book by Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty in my recommended…

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Contents1 Christmas Gifts for Gardeners 20191.1 Make the promise of a day out together, to visit a snowdrop garden1.2 Join a Gardening Club!1.3 Meet BBC TV Presenter Adam Frost, at the Surrey Horticultural Federation Spring Talk1.4 The WOLF-Garten Straight Spade1.5 Improve your pond or create…

Daffodil: The remarkable story of the world’s most popular spring flower Author: Noel Kingsbury Photographer: Jo Whitworth Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 978-1-60469-318-8 Daffodils are one of the most recognisable, most popular, and most widely revered flowers. If you love daffodils and want to hear their…

The Chinese Kitchen Garden: growing techniques and family recipes from a classic cuisine By Wendy Kiang-Spray Published by Timber Press ISBN: 978-1-60469-677-6 If you’re making a list and checking it twice…..of all the interesting and exciting vegetables and crops that you hope to grow next…

East: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes from Bangalore to Beijing Author: Meera Sodha Publisher: Fig Tree Books ISBN: 978-0-241-38756-6 I discovered Meera Sodha’s recipe for Vegan Cauliflower Korma in Meera’s ‘The New Vegan‘ column, in The Guardian, back in October 2018. I’ve been a huge…

Teaming with Fungi: The organic grower’s guide to mycorrhizae Author: Jeff Lowenfels Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 978-1-60469-729-2 Through his book Teaming with Fungi, author Jeff Lowenfels, aims to dispel the myths associated with fungi; this book informs and educates readers about fungi and their fascinating…

Essential Pruning Techniques for Trees, Shrubs, and Conifers Authors: George E. Brown and Tony Kirkham Photographs: Andrea Jones Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 978-1-60469-288-4 The first edition of the reference book, Essential Pruning Techniques was written by George E. Brown (1917-1980). George was the assistant curator…

The English Roses By David Austin Published by Conran Octopus ISBN: 978-1-84091-751-2 This is the third edition of this book, The English Roses by David Austin, to be published, having been updated to include some of the new rose introductions that David Austin Roses have made…

Hedera The Complete Guide by Hugh McAllister and Rosalyn Marshall Published by the Royal Horticultural Society ISBN: 978-1-90705-773-1 Could there be a more wonderful Christmas gift than a book about ivy? Ivy is such a valuable garden plant, evergreen, hardy, and native to the UK,…

If you want to find out how exactly plants eat, you wish you understood more about fertilisers, or you want to find out how a plant uses nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) and the other macronutrients and micronutrients, then this is the book for you, as you'll learn all this and more!

Teaming with Microbes, the Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web Authors: Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 978-1-60469-113-9 In their book, Teaming with Microbes, authors, Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis, highlight the importance of a healthy soil food web, describing the…

The Book of Orchids: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World. By Professor Mark Chase, Dr Maarten Christenhusz, and Tom Mirenda ISBN: 978-1-78240-403-3 Published by The Ivy Press Comprised of six hundred and fifty-six pages and weighing in at 2.3kg, The…

I very much enjoyed reading Gardening for Butterflies, I found it very interesting to read about the butterfly species that live in America, their preferred