5 Easy Steps
When you are new to gardening and are planning to do your gardening organically then this is a great book. Bob Flowerdew (fantastic last name!) writes in an easy manner in five easy steps how to grow your vegetables, fruit, flowers, bushes and trees organically.
Lists
The book is colorful with great photo’s and drawings. There are a lot of lists, I love lists, they are easy to turn to when you are in doubt or need to reread something without going through the whole book. One of my favorite lists and one I have marked is “the companion planting for vegetables”. It sums up which vegetables goes well or does badly with other vegetables. Other great lists are two pages of which plants you could plant to attract beneficial insects and the advantages and disadvantages of different types of mulch.
Seeds
There is a big section about what kind of vegetables you can grow and Bob Flowerdew gives some suggestions of which seeds you could buy, which is great if you are not sure about what to choose when you are looking through the seeds catalogs for the first time.
Although I am not a novice gardener anymore, I am pretty sure I will turn to this book this year when I need to remember which plants are beneficial or great companions for my vegetables or to identify a weed that has come up or which kind of fertilizer I should use.
Maybe in a few years I know all this by heart but for now Mr. Flowerdew’s book
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