Mick Lavelle

This inspiring and accessible hands-on book shows how simple gardening techniques can provide a dazzling plant display while helping the native wildlife. This new updated edition of the award-winning book, How to Create a Wildlife Garden (Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year), gives easy-to-follow instructions backed up with advice on planning and design, showing how we can share...

This newly updated edition guides the budding allotmenteer through every step of successful growing from early planning to planting and harvesting. Information on tools, equipment and soil management follows, along with a chapter on what to grow where, crop rotation, companion planting, and growing both outdoors and in a greenhouse. Techniques such as sowing, propagation, feeding, watering, pruning, harvesting and...