A Beginners’ Guide to Growing and Cooking Fruit and Vegetables

Delia Smith has always been most concerned with the quality and flavour of the ingredients she uses, and nothing comes fresher than fruit and vegetables from your own garden. So, when the opportunity arose for her to work with her longstanding friend, garden expert Gay Search, to create her own kitchen garden, she seized the chance.

This guide, now available in paperback, and written by Gay with 56 recipes from Delia, is for those who are interested in good food - free from pesticides - and who want to try their hand at growing their own.

It follows a year in the life of Delia's kitchen garden, with a chapter devoted to each month, containing detailed advice on sowing and planting, fruit and vegetable varieties and how to harvest.

With failsafe recipes by Delia that use the produce at its peak, this guide is suitable for first-time horticulturists and cooks of all levels. The book is lavishly designed and has over 300 colour photographs.

Authors: Gay Search, Delia Smith

Number of Pages: 168 pages, col. illustrations
Size (mm): 272 x 24

Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of colour pictures, this book will encourage any herb enthusiast to get in the garden!

Author: Jessica Houdret 

Number of Pages: 256 pages, 700 col. illustrations
Size (mm): 297 x 22

The ideal gift for any herb enthusiast with an extensive list of herbs & medicinal plants.

Author: Barty Phillips 

Number of Pages: 96 pages, col. Illustrations

Size (mm): 280 x 21

This is a TV tie-in for a new BBC TV series "Grow Your Own Veg!" by TV presenter and highly regarded gardener Carol Klein, who has collaborated with the Royal Horticultural Society to create a lavishly illustrated, easy-to-follow, practical and inspiring beginner's handbook to everything anyone ever needs to know to grow vegetables, salads, and herbs all year round.

"Grow Your Own Veg!" complements and builds upon the information covered in the TV series of the same name and provides all the practical know-how to get growing your own vegetables.

Combining Carol Klein's no-nonsense and enthusiastic approach to gardening, much loved by viewers of "Gardeners' World" on BBC TV, with the horticultural best practice from the Royal Horticultural Society, this is a genuinely step-by-step beginner's guide to growing an aspirational but achievable range of food plants.

Whatever the size of a garden, this is a book to convert readers to the pleasures of growing and harvesting their own food plants. From preparing a plot, planning what to plant, and how to grow any one of the 40 featured food plants, this is a book to which veg growers can return every year, whatever their level of expertise.

Author: Carol Klein, Royal Horticultural Society  

Number of Pages: 224 pages, 600 colour photographs
Size (mm): 245 x 190

A cooks guide to growing organic fruits, vegetables and herbs in containers

This manual shows how you can grow vegetables and fruit, using organic methods, even if you don't have a garden: all you need is a couple of pots or a window box.

The author explores which are the best plants for flavour, and for maximum yield in the space available; how to provide the best possible conditions; and how to plan for a succession of edible plants.

A plant-by-plant guide to the best fruit, vegetables, salads and edible flowers provides cultivation and harvesting details, and a selection of recipes enables you to make the most of your homegrown crops.

Author: Susan Berry   

Number of Pages: 143 pages, 120 colour photographs
Size (mm): 211 x 210

Grow delicious fruit, vegetables and herbs in a really small space

From eliminating urban pollution in your garden to growing the most beautiful edible plants in your limited outside space, this book is aimed at anyone who doesn't have the luxury of a country garden. This book shows how to get the best soil, gives advice on garden design and supplies recipes, which highlight the taste of the food you grow. The plant directory also advises upon the most suitable varieties of crop to grow in very small numbers.

Whatever your "garden" space, be it a window box or a roof terrace, an allotment or a back garden, this book aims to show you how to turn it into a productive "Eden" all year round.

Authors: Adam Caplin, James Caplin      

Number of Pages: 160 pages, Colour photography by Francesca Yorke
Size (mm): 240 x 21

A comprehensive sowing and growing guide to success with vegetables and herbs

Discover the joy of sowing and raising your own vegetables with this thoroughly practical, comprehensive A-Z of the most popular vegetables and herbs. Featuring detailed descriptive portraits of over 60 different vegetable varieties you will learn about each entry from planting to harvest.

Clearly presented tips on sowing seeds, transplanting, growing, winter care, harvesting, storage and the best varieties to grow provide at-a-glance information.

Find out how each vegetable interacts with others and its environment; helping you to become as much a part of the garden as the plants you grow.

Tips, tricks and secrets from a successful gardener's lifetime of experience make success truly achievable and will inspire even the novice gardener.

Author: Edward C. Smith     

Number of Pages: 128 pages, 250 colour photographs
Size (mm): 254 x 17