Nothing beats the flavour of home-grown produce. With down-to-earth advice from Adam Caplin, discover the satisfactions of growing your own herbs, vegetables, and fruit organically--and harvesting them to make delicious, healthy meals. Adam focuses on plants that are easy to grow and shows how creating a kitchen garden can be simple, and possible even if your outdoor space is no more than a patio. Kitchen Garden Basics covers getting started and explains why the organic approach produces such satisfying results. The core of the book--Gardening with Herbs, Vegetables, and Fruit--profiles all the popular varieties of edibles, grouped by type, and looks in detail at their virtures and cultivation requirements. Adam also looks at the plants' decorative qualities, showing how they can be grown on their own in beds and containers, in mixed borders, and combined with flowers, for their ornamental as well as their nutritional value. The gardening advice is followed by 35 mouthwatering vegetarian recipes from Celia Brooks Brown. *A bestseller, with over 26,000 copies sold in hardcover. *An illuminating new look at the delights and challenges of cultivating edibles. *Glorious photography by Caroline Hughes and William Shaw. *Organic gardening and cooking with herbs, vegetables, and fruit.
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You don't need an allotment, a vegetable plot or even a garden to grow your own organic fruit and vegetables. Many are amenable enough to be grown in containers which, with due care and attention, will produce the freshest ingredients possible for your table. With a small garden, vegetables can be intermingled with flowers, the scarlet stems of chard, the mottled leaves of courgettes and the feathery foliage of fennel mixing happily with herbaceous perennials, adding structure and interest. Runner beans growing over arches, strawberries pendulating from hanging baskets, will all imbue your garden with extra interest. Garden writer and journalist, Adam Caplin, leads the reader clearly through the basics of organic fruit and vegetable cultivation, offering inspirational planting plans captured in glorious photographs to tempt the mind. Finishing with an exciting collection of recipes by Celia Brooks Brown with which to utilise your home-grown produce, this is an interesting and inspiring book for novice fruit and vegetable growers. - Lucy Watson
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Celia Brooks Brown is one of the talented teacher-chefs at the world-famous bookshops Books for Cooks in Notting Hill, London. She has written six cookbooks, appears regularly as a cook on TV, and works as a food consultant.
Adam Caplin studied horticulture at Reading, in southern England, before running several successful nurseries and garden centers, including the Chelsea Gardener. He is the co-author of "New Kitchen Garden" (Ryland Peters & Small) and a contributor to "Easy Gardening" and "BBC Gardener's World" magazine.
Caroline Hughes began her photographic career in fashion, but after the birth of her second child she turned her camera on the garden, deciding to put her love of plants to better use. Caroline now photographs gardens, for many publications, including the Daily Telegraph, Homes & Gardens, and The English Garden. She lives in London with her daughters and her husband, Mat, whose plants provide the inspiration and material for many of her photographs.
William Shaw trained at Salisbury College of Art, and is now a leading lifestyle and food photographer whose work has appeared in many magazines, including Country Life, Country Living, Sinsbury's The Magazine, House Beautiful, Homes & Gardens, Country Homes & Interiors, and various BBC magazines.
Adam Caplin studied horticulture at Reading, in southern England, before running several successful nurseries and garden centers, including the Chelsea Gardener. He is the co-author of "New Kitchen Garden" (Ryland Peters & Small) and a contributor to "Easy Gardening" and "BBC Gardener's World" magazine.
Caroline Hughes began her photographic career in fashion, but after the birth of her second child she turned her camera on the garden, deciding to put her love of plants to better use. Caroline now photographs gardens, for many publications, including the Daily Telegraph, Homes & Gardens, and The English Garden. She lives in London with her daughters and her husband, Mat, whose plants provide the inspiration and material for many of her photographs.
William Shaw trained at Salisbury College of Art, and is now a leading lifestyle and food photographer whose work has appeared in many magazines, including Country Life, Country Living, Sinsbury's The Magazine, House Beautiful, Homes & Gardens, Country Homes & Interiors, and various BBC magazines.
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