We have added a new book to this list
Gardeners new and old who are bookworms like to read about what
they can or ought to be doing.
DVDs
Sorry to say, we had
a series of DVD's of an ITV programme about starting an allotment
which members are welcome to borrow when the last borrower returns
them!! We fear they are lost now.
These are
Magazines which plotholders find helpful
The National Society of Allotment and
Leisure Gardeners publishes “The Allotment” quarterly, at £1 a copy
[£4 p.a. in advance via the Hon.
Secretary]
If you join the Royal horticultural Society their magazine The
Garden usually has items of interest to allotment holders, and the
Society has great resources which keener gardeners can use, but
membership is not cheap!
Commercial magazines available at newsagents
include:-
- Kitchen Garden
- Grow Your Own
- Amateur Gardening
- - and many others just as good... find out which suits
you!
BBC website: look for the A-Z index top right of new page and go
to Gardening to find Gardeners’ World site. It is a well worthwhile
visit.
| Leo grows prize leeks in his
greenhouse |
Books:
[This list is just a very small selection of those you can find
if you search the internet. They are however, good ones, we
believe.]
"Vegetable Growing Month by Month" by John
Harrison is a down to earth book. The actual title bit, the
monthly calendar starts on p 119, but before that there is a lot of
good commonsense about gardening and why you should grow your own.
It costs only £5.99, and the ISBN is 978-0-7160-2189-6 if you go to
buy it. [Or ask for it for Christmas!]
Grow Your own Vegetables by Joy Larkcomb, Pub -
Frances Lincoln Publishers (May 2002) - 320 Pages ISBN
071121963X - ISBN-13
9780711219632 Price £9.99 [3rd Edn. is the
latest.]
Still an invaluable book, authoritative whether you take all her
green ideas on board or not. Much about compost, green manuring and
detailed descriptions of almost every vegetable you could want to
grow, with charts of days to maturity &c. a more comprehensivbe
version of Harrison's calendar.
Grow your own veg [2007] by Carol Klein/BBC [ISBN is well
produced as it is a BBC book, has the Royal Horticultural Society
imprint, and is an excellent guide, based on the series of
programmes of that name. Carol also features in the “Gardener’s
World” programmes from Berryfields with Monty Don.
Hardcover – pub:
Mitchell Beazley (Jan 2007) - 224 Pages ISBN
1845332938
- ISBN-13
9781845332938
The Allotment Book by Andi Clevely, aimed at beginners,
well illustrated.
Collins ISBN 0-00-720-759X £17.99
Practical Allotment Gardening. Caroline Foley Covers all
the basics and looks good.
Pub. New Holland, ISBN 1-85974-890-2 £12.99
The Allotment Handbook Caroline Foley Another excellent book by
her. Pub.New Holland, ISBN
1843305836 - ISBN-13
9781843305835 £12.99
Your allotment The Down-to-Earth Guide to Plot Paradise: Clare
Foster Good straightforward book, Pub Cassel ISBN
1844035603 £12.99
“The half-hour allotment” – this intriguing title from the
Royal Horticultural Society
is an excellent book for beginners who are very busy but want to
achieve something worthwhile on a 5 rod plot. It is by Lia
Leendeertz. It costs £16.99 and is easily obtained at Magpie books
in Hamilton Road in town. The ISBN is 9781874431985. The
illustrations are good – perhaps the fingers are rather clean in
the close-ups of seed sowing!
The Complete Vegetable Gardener Jane Courtier. All you would
expect from a Readers Digest book about something – excellent for
beginner and old hand. ISBN
0276441141 - ISBN-13
9780276441141 £12.99
The Allotment Gardener's Handbook (Penguin Handbooks)
Alan Titchmarsh .Paperback -
Penguin Books Ltd (Feb 1984) - 208 Pages
ISBN
0140465715 - ISBN-13
9780140465716
www.BookButler.co.uk
is a site which compares book prices, including Amazon – but why
not support the bookshop in town? Independents are being killed by
internet bookselling.