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josusa47
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Just for fun, what's your favourite gardening book(s), and why?Here are mine:
The Little Book of Slugs and How to make soil and save Earth, both from the Centre for Alternative Technology.
The Pip Book by Keith Mossman.
Liquid Gold, The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants.
Bob Flowerdew's Complete Fruit Book
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Unarmed Gardening by Frank Ward and William Rushdon. Some of the advice is a little out of date now but its funny and the drawings by Willie Rushdon are superb. Our paperback copy of the book has fallen apart but by luck I came across a used hardback copy at Lyme Park a couple of years back. If I had to chose one gardening book to keep, this would be it.
Most of my books are about veg gardening - I have two of Mark Diacono's that I refer to often, the River Cottage 'veg patch' handbook and 'The New Kitchen Garden'. I've also got Martin Crawford's 'Creating a Forest Garden' (fascinating reading) and 'Jekka's Complete Herb Book' by Jekka McVicar.
I've got two gardening encyclopedias, the RHS one and a much older one of my Mum's, from the 60s at a guess. And I have an NGS book called 'Making Gardens'.
Next to those on my bookshelf are 3 or 4 journals and clippings books with articles from magazines and newspapers, photos from this garden and earlier ones, plant labels and old planting plans, and a copy of the old tythe map of this place.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Thanks, I do! Halfway through filling the last of three raised beds I've just built. Impressive beard Mike, did you grow it from seed, or buy it as a bare root?
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