Book description
Growing your own organic vegetables will give you fresher, tastier and
more nutritious produce with no food miles, fossil fuel use or
packaging; and will provide you with the simple but enormous pleasure
and satisfaction of supplying at least part of your own food
requirements. This authoritative book provides detailed, practical
guidance for those who wish to make the most of their time and whatever
area of ground is available to grow vegetables the organic way. It looks
forward to productive gardening becoming increasingly relevant and
necessary as we are obliged to adapt to global trends, including climate
change and diminishing oil resources that will adversely affect food
production. The techniques described are applicable to any scale of
gardening and are based on the author's thirty years of organic
gardening experience, including twenty years of self-sufficiency and
eight as a professional gardener growing vegetables and fruit in walled
gardens. Robert Milne grew all the vegetables and most of the fruit
for his family of two, then three, and for ten years, four people.
Robert explored the most efficient way of doing everything, modifying
some tools and developing some new techniques. In 2003, frustrated by
the lack of information about soil in gardening books, Robert took a
degree in soil science at the University of Reading. Robert has also
worked with vegetable growers in Norway, Scotland and Iceland. In
2002-3, he worked with children in primary schools making and managing
quite large vegetable gardens. Particular information is included in
this book regarding working with children, whether in schools or
families.
