Huw Richards Collection 2 Books Set (Veg in One Bed, The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook):

Veg in One Bed:
In just one raised bed, green fingered wunderkind Huw Richards shows you how to grow vegetables, organically, abundantly and inexpensively so you have something to harvest every month of the year. Grow your own vegetable garden with this practical, straightforward gardening guide. There is nothing more fulfilling than growing your own home produce. You don’t have to be a seasoned gardener to produce a healthy, flourishing garden – all you need is a few seeds, water, sunlight, good advice and patience! In just one raised bed, author Huw Richards, shows you exactly how to grow vegetables organically, abundantly and inexpensively so you have something to harvest every month of the year. Month by month, discover what you need to do and how to do it. Try becoming more self-sufficient in your allotment, a small garden, or even on a roof terrace.

The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook:
DK brings you an all-encompassing horticultural handbook to fulfil your every leaf and legume! Get your gardening gloves on, as best-selling author Huw Richards takes you on a green-fingered journey to be an undefeated veg-grower! A recent study suggests 38% of British adults use their gardens to grow herbs and vegetables. But with the ever-growing pressure of balancing family life with a career, a lot of today’s green-fingered gardeners simply lack time for vegetable growing. Huw is on a mission to change that! Whatever your horticultural hopes may be, Huw Richards brings you a veg-growing guide that is sure to shape the next generation of green-fingered gardeners like never before, full of top tips on smart gardening, without compromising on time, effort or money.

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Winner of the Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year Award 2022

Mark…will give you confidence and knowledge to grow an impressive amount of food in seriously small spaces, where you probably thought you could not! Charles Dowding, author of Skills for Growing and No Dig Gardening

A cornucopia of sage advice and cunning tips Tom Heap, BBC Countryfile

From the creator of the wildly popular website ‘Vertical Veg’ and with over 200k people in his online community of growers, comes the complete guide to growing delicious fruit, vegetables, herbs and salad in containers, pots and more – in any space at home – no matter how small!

If you long to grow your own tomatoes, courgettes or strawberries but thought you didn’t have enough space, Mark Ridsdill Smith, aka the ‘Vertical Veg Man,’ will show you how. Make the most of walls, balconies, patios, arches and windowsills and create rich, beautiful and delicious homegrown food. With proven results from his ten years of experience growing in all kinds of containers and teaching people how to grow bountiful, edible crops in small spaces, Mark will show you how gardening in containers is more than just a hobby but rather a way of creating a significant amount of delicious, low-cost, nutritious food. In his second year of growing in containers, Mark grew over 80kg of food worth £900!

Inside The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening, you’ll find:

• Mark’s ‘Eight Steps to Success’
• How to make the most of your space
• How to draw up a planning calendar so you can grow throughout the year
• Planting projects for beginners and the best plants to start with
• Compost recipes and wormery guide for the more experienced gardener
• Troubleshoots for the specific challenges of growing in small spaces
• Ways to support pollinators and other wildlife in urban areas
• How growing food at home can contribute to wellbeing, sustainability and the local community

Don’t be confined by the space you have – grow all the food you want with Mark’s Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening.

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