Author(s): Royal Horticultural Society

Gardening

"RHS Growing Vegetables & Herbs" is the new practical guide to the essential practice of growing your own food. It will show how to plan a productive plot, improve your soil, sow and grow up to 50 herbs and vegetables using the tastiest varieties for home eating. There is nothing quite like the taste of fresh vegetables and herbs that you have grown yourself. Guy Barter is the Royal Horticultural Society's best vegetable grower, with more than 20 years of growing and showing others how to grow. Demonstrating RHS best practice and using only the tastiest varieties, Guy shows how to make a productive plot in any size garden. From soil improvement to crop protection, pest control and top harvesting tips, with this book readers will be able to grow 50 of the most popular and tasty herbs and vegetables today. This book includes new veg crops such as super-healthy soya beans, tasty Asian greens and the fantastically trendy micro-veg that all the top chefs are raving about.