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Title: Pocket Vegetable Expert, The

Author: David Hessayon
Description: Neat little books, packed with info, to slip into your pocket while gardening or visiting the garden centre - Candis

Now you can take the Experts anywhere!

A new title in the acclaimed Pocket Expert series - a boiled-down version of the UKs best-selling standard sized Expert, including sections on getting started, plant care and a vegetable A-Z.

About the Author

Dr David Hessayon initiated a major innovation in gardening publications in 1959 with the first of his Gardening Expert guides. These best-selling guides have had an unparalleled influence on gardening over the past 50 years. There are over 49 million copies in print. He was awarded the 1993 Gardening Book of the Year Award from the Garden Writers Guild and received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement Oscar at the National British Book Awards. In 1999 he received a Guinness World Record Award as Britains best-selling living author of the 1990s. He lives in Essex, and has two daughters and four grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Vegetables A-Z

Baby Vegetables

Getting Started

Plant Care

Reviews

Dr Hessayons expert garden guides remain, quite simply, the best when it comes to giving straightforward advice. - Evening Standard

Virtually every gardener in the country has at least one Expert book. - Sunday Express

Full of solid, dependable advice. Pocket-sized guides, with information boiled down to basics but not oversimplified. Great for trips to the garden centre and good value. - Good Housekeeping

Perfect for looking up plants when visiting stately home gardens or parks. They are also useful when buying plants at garden centres. - The Sun

128pp

Subtopic: General Gardening
Year: 2002
Code: 7070
Price: €5.50

 

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