Eat What You Grow: How to Have an Undemanding Edible Garden That Is Both Beautiful and Productive

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From perennial vegetables that come back year after year, to easy-to-grow delights, she has selected plants that hold their own in both the garden and on the plate.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She has written seven books including T he Thrifty Gardener, The Edible Garden, The Thrifty Forager, Abundance , Hidden Nature and A Modern Herbal . Through anecdotal advice, you will learn how to raise and nurture your plants; from trees and shrubs to bulbs and climbers, Fowler covers everything from where to plant them, how to feed the soil and when they should be harvested. In Eat What You Grow, Alys shows you how to create a rich, biodiverse garden that feeds not only you, but supports a wide range of pollinators, bees and butterflies, as well as other wildlife. She is fascinated by urban nature and how we make space for it and was a creative consultant on public spaces and recently helped design the Greenwich Peninsula Gardens.

In Eat What You Grow, Alys Fowler offers expertise on cultivating a rich and biodiverse edible garden that will attract wildlife, including important pollinators, while also providing you with incredibly nourishing and wondrously home-grown crops. She also suggests effective design techniques for ensuring that your garden looks as good as it smells and tastes!In 'Eat What You Grow', Alys Fowler shows you how to create a rich, biodiverse garden that feeds not only you, but supports a wide range of pollinators, bees and butterflies, as well as other wildlife. In Eat What You Grow, Alys Fowler shows you how to create a rich, biodiverse garden that feeds not only you, but supports a wide range of pollinators, bees and butterflies, as well as other wildlife. She also teaches you simple and effective design tools that will ensure your garden looks striking and wild, brings joy to your world and feeds you day after day. The book sets out the argument for gardening in this way in the introductory pages and then splits into subsequent sections.

I bought this book alongside “The Edible Garden”, (which i had been watching on the television), thinking it would be a food addition to my gardening library. However, the book does work as a concept with its own focus and I think if you haven't read Fowler's earlier work then this is actually the best place to start. I’ve enjoyed learning about some more unusual edible plants that I wouldn’t have thought of to grow. She has presented on BBC's Gardeners' World, The Great British Garden Revival, Our Food , and her own six-part series The Edible Garden .Her inspiration for urban gardening comes from her time volunteering in a community garden on the Lower East side in Manhattan, New York City. A thoroughly rich and engaging practical guide to creating a wildlife-friendly edible garden that is as beautiful as it is utterly delicious. All of the plants that Fowler has incorporated into this book have been selected so that they hold their own not just in a garden but on the plate. informative and interesting too, i learnt a lot and the idea of polyculture gardens has my brain buzzing. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.