Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, UK Edition

A complete hands-on guide to growing delicious fruit and veg, this expert guide gives you the low-down on everything from assessing your plot and getting your hands on the right tools, to choosing the plants to grow, to nurturing your crops and bringing in your harvest. The For Dummies approach gives you clear, easy-to-follow expert advice, so you can get started in the garden right away, build your knowledge and confidence, and become a successful back garden or allotment gardener.

Growing Your Own Fruit & Veg For Dummies includes:

• Part I: Getting Going With Growing
• Chapter 1: Becoming a 'Grow Your Own' Gardener
• Chapter 2: Assessing Your Territory
• Chapter 3: Deciding What, When, and Where to Grow

Part II: Preparing Your Plot

• Chapter 4: Understanding and Maintaining Your Soil
• Chapter 5: Feeding and watering your plants
• Chapter 6: Growing Organic
• Chapter 7: Spotting Signs of Trouble

Part III: Growing tasty vegetables Chapter 8: Looking After Leaf Crops    

• Chapter 9: Raising Root Crops
• Chapter 10: Growing a Mediterranean Selection
• Chapter 11: Planting Pods and Grains
• Chapter 12: Becoming an Adventurous Gardener

Part IV: Growing Your Own Fruit Salad

• Chapter 13: Planting Quick-Growing Fruit
• Chapter 14: Very Berry! - Growing Berries, Currants and Nuts
• Chapter 15: Caring for Slow-Growing Tree Fruit
• Chapter 16: Growing Greenhouse Fruit
• Chapter 17: Harvesting Your Wares

Part V: The Part of Tens

• Chapter 18: Ten Projects
• Chapter 19: Ten Tips on Planting a Herb Garden
• Chapter 20: Ten tips for Organic Growing