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A Year Full of Veg

A Harvest for All Seasons
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Sarah Raven's A Year Full of Veg offers a month-by-month guide to growing and cooking your own vegetables. It provides practical tips for planting, tending, and harvesting a variety of produce throughout the year. This book also includes delicious recipes, making it a useful companion for those looking to enjoy fresh, seasonal meals from their garden.
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This book may appeal to you if you're passionate about gardening and cooking. It offers a delightful exploration of growing and enjoying a variety of vegetables throughout the year, complete with tips on cultivation and delicious recipes. If you enjoy nurturing your green thumb and experimenting in the kitchen with fresh, home-grown produce, you'll likely find this book inspiring and practical.

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A Year Full of Veg is a month-by-month gardening guide to growing the best seasonal veg, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Year Full of Flowers.

With her wealth of experience, Sarah Raven shares the most reliable and bountiful varieties to grow, her tried-and-tested favourite crops, and unusual vegetables, herbs and salads that you can’t buy in shops.

As well as planting inspiration, Sarah reveals expert tips and techniques for growing and harvesting flavourful crops from January through to December, all based on easy, efficient and productive techniques that ensure you'll always have something fresh to use in the kitchen.

No matter how much outdoor space you have, you’ll be inspired to grow at least a little of what you eat.

β€˜This book, it’s a revelation. I can’t stop reading it. Sarah writes so well and there is hardly a paragraph where you don’t learn something’ - Prue Leith

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A Year Full of Veg by Sarah Raven has been praised for sparking enthusiasm and interest in gardening. The book is noted for its beautiful photography, engaging writing style, and informative content, making it both an enjoyable read and a helpful resource. It offers inspiration and knowledge, making it a delightful companion for gardening enthusiasts.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526639349

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Illustration: Colour photography throughout

Contributors:

  • Photographs by Jonathan Buckley

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 1154g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Since the publication of her first book The Cutting Garden Sarah has led the way over the last two and a half decades in introducing a new kind of productive gardening which fuses intense colour, elegance and do-ability, bridging all kinds of gardening from dark rich dahlia glories to subtler smoky modern colours of poppies, roses, sweet peas, and all kinds of vegetable deliciousness. She is a teacher, broadcaster, has a popular gardening podcast Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange with colleague Arthur Parkinson and runs a mail order plant nursery, (with 500,000 customers). She is also the author of many books on gardening and cooking. Her most recent book was A Year Full of Flowers.

sarahraven.com / @srkitchengarden

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