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

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And tells you how to raise these plants, guiding you through the process of feeding your soil, saving seed and taking cuttings to increase your supplies.

By comparison, there are far fewer photos, and the ones that are present are grainy and most frustratingly unlabelled! She has presented on BBC's Gardeners' World, The Great British Garden Revival, Our Food , and her own six-part series The Edible Garden . The book sets out the argument for gardening in this way in the introductory pages and then splits into subsequent sections. And as I now embark on my second year in a new garden, Eat What You Grow has provided a source of inspiration to consider more ambitious plans for each of the seasons.Split into three main sections, the book takes a holistic approach by building from the basics, which are edible perennials in a variety of sizes and growth habits, up to fillers that self-seed, through to toppings, which are annual plants that will thrive in this mixed system. She has an allotment and an urban back garden with two chickens, lots of flowers and plenty of vegetables.

Her inspiration for urban gardening comes from her time volunteering in a community garden on the Lower East side in Manhattan, New York City.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.