Jane S Delicious Garden

Do you want to grow vegetables and herbs organically? This is a practical and inspiring guide to preparing, planting and growing vegetables and herbs in any space -- from small urban gardens to country smallholdings. Packed with practical advice, time-saving tips, step-by-step instructions and personal anecdotes, this book is for novices and gardening gurus alike. With over 200 photographs and detailed information on how to prepare your garden for planting and growing nearly 100 vegetables and herbs, this guide will enable you to feed your family and friends with wholesome, organic food harvested from your garden.

Herbs are rewarding and versatile plants. They are easy to grow and add colour, texture and fragrance to our gardens and food. This is a full-colour, richly illustrated, hands-on guide to growing and using these productive plants. With a detailed and richly illustrated A-Z reference of 80 plus herbs, the book covers planting and growing, medicinal and culinary uses, as well as their many healing properties. In her book, Jane shows you how to design and maintain your own herb garden. She also provides practical advice on how to propagate, harvest and preserve herbs, as well as useful tips on how to grow them in containers.

Do you want to grow organic vegetables but don't know where to begin? This is the perfect book for you -- whether you have green fingers or not. Packed with practical advice, time-saving tips, step-by-step instructions and personal anecdotes, this book is for beginners and gardening gurus alike. With over 200 photographs and detailed information on nearly 100 vegetables and herbs, this guide will enable you to feed your family and friends with wholesome, organic food harvested from your own garden.

The shortest food mile is from your garden to your kitchen table – or from your local farmers’ market to your home. But what do you do if you have an abundance of harvest and don’t know how to make the most of it all? Jane’s Delicious Kitchen is a fun, inspiring and practical cooking journey through the seasons – whether you grow your own food or buy seasonal produce Whether you grow your own food or buy seasonal produce, this gorgeous cookbook is filled with practical advice, time-saving tips and over 100 mouth-watering and individually photographed recipes, this feast of a book is about making the most of seasonal bounty. Whether you want to preserve summer’s harvest at its peak of flavor or let spring’s freshest ingredients shine in simple yet sumptuous dishes, Jane’s Delicious Kitchen is for gourmet gardeners and novices alike. This luscious book is a celebration of the cycles of nature.

Inspiring and practical, this is a lovely resource for anyone looking to grow fruit trees or start an orchard, whether in your garden or as a community project. For centuries, orchards have been a compelling and important part of our landscape. The sight of a fruit tree, blushing in blossom in the spring, and then laden with fresh fruit in the summer and autumn, can be truly enchanting, inspiring folklore and art. Not only do orchards provide bountiful fruit for families and communities, they are also attractive to pollinators such as bees, and make a wonderful habitat for birds. There are many ways of incorporating orchard living into your lifestyle, no matter how busy or short of space you are. Written by esteemed horticulturalist Naomi Slade, this gloriously illustrated resource illuminates the possibilities and enables you to make it a reality – whether you have a few fruit trees already or have always wanted an orchard of your own. An Orchard Odyssey shows you how to plant and care for your trees and suggests fruit trees suitable for different spaces. It also covers the benefits of orchard for conservation and biodiversity, orchard heritage, and the role of fruit trees in garden and landscape design. The guide promotes the 'five trees' principle of orchards, and encourages the reader to embrace the orchards in a way that is personal to them. Packed with practical ideas and inspiration, let this delightful book encourage you to re-engage with tree fruit in new ways: look at it the right way and everyone can have an orchard.

Janes Delicious AZ of Vegetables is an accessible guide to the most commonly-grown vegetables, plus many new and unusual ones now available, with detailed information on how to sow, plant, feed, water, protect, harvest and eat them, as well as save their seed for future generations. Written in Janes quirky, practical style and lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs for easy reference, this is a one-stop guide to growing any type of vegetable organically.