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From perennial vegetables that come back year after year, to easy-to-grow delights, she has selected plants that hold their own in both the garden and on the plate. It's lacking the introductory detail to give structure, and some of the chapters feel rather cursory. In Eat What You Grow, Alys Fowler shows you how to create a rich, biodiverse garden that feeds not only you, but supports a wide range of pollinators, bees and butterflies, as well as other wildlife.
She has an allotment and an urban back garden with two chickens, lots of flowers and plenty of vegetables. informative and interesting too, i learnt a lot and the idea of polyculture gardens has my brain buzzing. She also teaches you simple and effective design tools that will ensure your garden looks striking and wild, brings joy to your world and feeds you day after day. I’ve enjoyed learning about some more unusual edible plants that I wouldn’t have thought of to grow.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She has contributed to G ardens Illustrated, The Observer Food Monthly, The National Geographic and Country Living . Her inspiration for urban gardening comes from her time volunteering in a community garden on the Lower East side in Manhattan, New York City. I was especially intrigued by the Edible Water Garden section, as this is entirely unknown territory for me and I’d love to try my hand at growing edible aquatic plants. She has presented on BBC's Gardeners' World, The Great British Garden Revival, Our Food , and her own six-part series The Edible Garden .
Among the many possibilities, there are familiar faces such as fig trees, rocket and beetroot, as well as less commonplace plants and varieties such as Korean celery (Dystaenia takesimana) and mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum), a flowering plant from the Andes with edible tubers. She is fascinated by urban nature and how we make space for it and was a creative consultant on public spaces and recently helped design the Greenwich Peninsula Gardens. Even if you have read her earlier books The Edible Garden then there's still something to be gained from Eat What You Grow as there's a lot more introductory information about Polycultures in the latter.If the initial age verification is unsuccessful, we will contact you asking you to provide further information to prove that you are aged 18 or over. The whole thing feels rushed and low-budget, without the care, grace, and commitment of The Edible Garden, which is a jewel of a book. All of the plants that Fowler has incorporated into this book have been selected so that they hold their own not just in a garden but on the plate. 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. In ‘Eat What You Grow’, Alys Fowler shows you how to create a rich, biodiverse garden that feeds not only you, but supports a wide range of pollinators, bees and butterflies, as well as other wildlife.
Allows you to use the information to suit your own garden and needs, rather than mapping out a plan that you then struggle to adapt to your own conditions. By comparison, there are far fewer photos, and the ones that are present are grainy and most frustratingly unlabelled! 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.Fowler suggests that it is far less time consuming to garden alongside nature rather than being a chore that includes constant weeding and back-breaking digging. This book proposes a way of gardening where edible plants are incorporated into gardens, rather than being the sole preserve of allotments and kitchen gardens.
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