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	RAIN GARDENS Managing Water Sustainably In The Garden & Designed Landscape Nigel Dunnett & Andy Clayden Full of ingenious ideas that capture, channel, divert rainwater in gardens, roads, parks and buildings. It shows examples from around the world: green roofs, filter strips, natural swimming pools, rills and channels, rainwater harvesting and storage, stormwater planters and permeable paving, with clear explanations of the environmental benefits. 188pp RMG £25.00 add to cart

	ROSES LOVE GARLIC Secrets Of Companion Planting With Flowers Louise Riotte Explains why specific plants can be beneficial for their neighbours, and gives advice on wildflowers, night-blooming gardens, and growing flowers for dyes. A US title RLG £9.99 add to cart

	ROOTS DEMYSTIFIED Change Your Gardening Habits To Help Roots Thrive Robert Kourik An outstanding compilation and a distillation of the most current information about plant roots, the key to sustainable gardening. It contains 25 scale drawings and 70 astonishingly detailed pictures which are an education and delight in themselves. Kourik has made complicated information easily accessible to help everyone – both beginners and the more advanced – become better gardeners. 176pp RDC £18.95 add to cart

	SALAD LEAVES FOR ALL SEASONS Organic Growing From Pot To Plot Charles Dowding Whether you have a windowsill, pots on a balcony or a garden you can successfully grow a wide variety of your own organic salad leaves. Includes growing outdoors in winter, growing micro leaves and dealing with pests. Choose from an exciting mix of herbs, flowers, exotic tastes and colours, lettuces, cabbage, spinach, endives and many more salad varieties. 200pp SLA £10.95 add to cart

	SQUARE FOOT GARDENING Garden In Less Space With Less Work Mel Bartholomew This system of gardening has always appealed to us but it does take planning; the garden is built in a series of one foot squares with each square holding a different vegetable, fruit or herb planted in quantities that you’ll actually use. There are suggested layouts for gardens, planting schedules and a crop-by-crop guide for 21 garden favourites. 346pp SFG £12.99 add to cart

	THE SUSTAINABLE VEGETABLE GARDEN A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil & Higher Yields John Jeavons & Carol Cox About as down to earth as you can get, this useful book by the author of How to Grow More Vegetables will be a good companion in the armchair and in the vegetable plot. 118pp SVG £9.99 add to cart

	TEAMING WITH MICROBES A Gardener’s Guide To The Soil Food Web Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis The first half of the book gives an in depth look at the organisms in our soil with wonderful clear illustrations and easy to read text. Part 2 applies the science with explanations on how & when to compost, mulch, feed and maintain lawns, trees, shrubs & perennial, annuals and vegetables. 196pp TWM £17.99 add to cart

	TRICKS WITH TREES Growing, Manipulaing & Pruning Ivan Hicks & Richard Rosenfeld Not only is this intriguing book a complete guide to how trees grow, but it also serves as a source of inspiration for growing your trees in all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes. One of the authors, Ivan Hicks, has been described as a ‘Merlin with shears’ and in this beautifully photographed book he lets his magic run wild. 160pp TWT £20.00 add to cart

	ULTIMATE FRUIT & NUTS Susanna Lyle An excellent and informative A-Z guide to over 300 plants and 250 similar species and varieties in temperate and sub tropical climates. Gives information on cultivation, progagation, harvesting times and yields and nutritional and health benefits. With a general introduction to many aspects of horticulture and plant nutrition and at the back a table of plants for different situations and uses. 182pp UFN £39.95 add to cart

	UNCOMMON FRUITS Lee Reich If you want to branch out and grow some beautiful unusual fruits, this US book describes some treasures like Nanking cherry, the Chinese raisin tree and the Scandinavian lingonberry. Each fruit has a sections on cultivation, propagation and harvesting. With 23 fruits, mostly but not all hardy, this will inspire experimentation. Hardback. 290pp UFE £17.99 add to cart

	VALUABLE VEGETABLES Growing For Pleasure & Profit Mandy Pullen For some nine years Mandy Pullen made a modest living and had a wonderful lifestyle growing vegetables which she sold via a box scheme. Here she tells you how she did it and how you too can do it. It’s pretty good for home gardeners too. Good honest common-sense gardening, from someone who knows. 272pp VVG £16.95 add to cart

	WEEDLESS GARDENING Lee Reich Throw away your rotovators, cease your double digging and learn how to copy nature and garden from the top down in true permaculture fashion. Information on preparation of site, suitable mulching techniques, composting and cover crops, irrigation, growing fruit, vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs with useful appendices on sampling and testing soils; addresses given are US Suppliers but the rest of this book is equally useful to UK readers. Recommended reading. 200pp WG1 £6.99 add to cart

	THE WORLD IS IN MY GARDEN Chris & Zane Maser This is a beautifully written book which explores our ecological, social, personal and spiritual consciousness, but does this through our relationship with nature and what we have come to know as our garden. The premise here is that the choices we make as gardeners are mirrored in the choices we make in other aspects of our lives. Empowering and thought provoking. 288pp WII £9.99 add to cart

	THE WORM BOOK The Complete Guide to Gardening & Composting with Worms Loren Nancarrow & Janet Hogan Taylor All you ever wanted to know about worms but were afraid to ask... construction and location of worm bins, problems and frequently asked questions, worms in the garden and much more. Look to the tail end for some surprises! 152pp WB3 £9.99 add to cart

	YOUR ORGANIC ALLOTMENT Ian Spence & Pauline Pears Detailed instructions and advice on how to grow over 80 delicious organic vegetables, fruit and herbs without chemicals. Expert advice in association with Garden Organic, the number-one organization for organic gardeners dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening. 160pp YOA £12.99 add to cart
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