Want to grow your own fruit or vegetables, but unsure how? RHS Step-by-Step Veg Patch contains brilliantly simple instructions on how to grow more than 50 different crops - perfect for beginners as well as keen gardeners.
Look up the specific crop you want to grow, and follow the photos and practical advice on starting, nurturing, and harvesting.
Choose your variety from more than 275 covered across the book, with galleries featuring unusual, exotic, or heirloom options for the most popular crops.
Discover how to plan your space, whether it's a vegetable patch, a small raised bed, or just some containers (outside or inside!). Explore different planting themes to suit your needs and maximize your harvest.
This updated edition contains the latest popular new cultivars and heirloom varieties and expanded troubleshooting information to help keep your plants healthy.
Author(s): Lucy Chamberlain
Edition: New ed
Publisher: DK Publishing, Royal Horticultural Society
Year: 2020
CONTENTS
Why grow your own food?
YOUR GROWING SPACE
Crops in small spaces
Growing in containers
Windowsills and indoors
Growing in raised beds
Essential tools and equipment
Deciding what to grow
Choosing the right spot
Preparing the soil
Sowing and planting
Getting an early start
Watering and feeding
PLANNING YOUR PLOT
Making a start
Planting the bed
Tending the crops
Plenty to pick
Ending the season
The easy-to-grow plot
The family plot
The gourmet plot
The no-garden plot
GROW YOUR OWN VEGETABLES
Tomatoes
Peppers
Chillies
Aubergines
Troubleshooting fruiting crops
Peas
Runner beans
French beans
Broad beans
Troubleshooting podded crops
Cucumbers
Courgettes and marrows
Summer squashes
Winter squashes
Pumpkins
Troubleshooting cucurbits
Summer and autumn cabbages
Winter and spring cabbages
Cauliflowers
Calabrese
Sprouting broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Kale
Troubleshooting brassicas
Lettuces
Cut-and-come-again salad
Microgreens
Oriental greens
Spinach
Swiss chard
Chicory and endive
Watercress
Troubleshooting salads and leaves
Radishes
Beetroot
Carrots
Turnips
Parsnips
Swedes
Potatoes
Troubleshooting root crops
Onions
Shallots
Spring onions
Leeks
Garlic
Troubleshooting alliums
Sweetcorn
Kohl rabi
Florence fennel
Celery
Celeriac
Troubleshooting other crops
Asparagus
Globe artichokes
Jerusalem artichokes
Rhubarb
Troubleshooting perennials
Perennial herbs
Annual herbs
Vegetable crop planner
GROW YOUR OWN FRUIT
Strawberries
Raspberries
Blackberries and hybrids
Red- and whitecurrants
Blackcurrants
Gooseberries
Blueberries
Apples
Pears
Plums
Cherries
Peaches, nectarines, and apricots
Figs
Troubleshooting soft and tree fruit
Fruit crop planner
PROBLEM SOLVER
The organic approach
Preventing problems
Common weeds
Avoiding pests and diseases
Common pests
Common diseases
Common nutrient deficiencies
Index
Acknowledgments
