9781783128686
Charles Dowding
The basics of setting up a flower or vegetable bed (and Charles is an advocate of starting with a small area) * Sowing seeds indoors and straight into the soil * Spotting what's a weed and what's not * Planting vegetables and fruit * Easy annual flowers * Growing wildlife-friendly plants * Ways to attract insects, birds and other wildlife to your garden * Making your own compost * making biodegradable plant pots * Seasonal planting, including projects like growing a giant sunflower (and seeing whose grows tallest) and growing and carving your own Halloween pumpkin * Vegetables need company! Planting close together * What grows when? Simple visual chart of Spring, summer, autumn and winter growing * What is healthy soil? (Illustrated non-fiction spread, inc. fun illustrations of worms, etc)