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Vegetables

The Definitive Guide for Gardeners
By Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix
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Vegetables by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix is an essential guide for gardeners of all levels, featuring over 500 vegetables suitable for temperate climates. This beautifully illustrated volume offers detailed cultivation advice, historical insights, and practical tips for growing everything from common favourites like carrots and spinach to rare varieties such as jicama and sacred lotus. Whether tending a garden, allotment, or windowsill pots, readers will find invaluable information on planting, harvesting, pest control, and even cooking the more unusual crops.
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A perfect resource for gardeners, horticulture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in growing a diverse range of vegetables, whether novice or experienced.

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A beautiful and comprehensive guide to over 500 vegetables with colour photographs, this is the definitive book for gardeners.

A beautiful and comprehensive guide to over 500 vegetables with colour photographs, this is the definitive book for gardeners.

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Beautiful and comprehensive, Vegetables is a must-have for all gardeners, by acclaimed authors Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix.

Remarkable . . . I have learnt so much - Financial Times

Whether you are a complete novice or an experienced gardener, Vegetables contains a stunning array of produce, in full colour photography, that can be grown in gardens of all sizes, allotments and even in windowsill pots. The book features over 500 vegetables that can be cultivated in a temperate climate, from the familiar carrot and spinach to the exotic jicama and sacred lotus.

Revised and updated, this is an indispensable guide for growers. The authoritative text contains fascinating details of the history and development of each species and information on characteristics, cultivation, when to harvest, and pests and diseases – as well as tips for cooking the more unusual varieties.

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"Remarkable . . . I have learnt so much from the new edition" – Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times

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ISBN: 9781529063295

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 196.0mm

Height: 253.0mm

Weight: 1140g

Pages: 272

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Education & Reference Home & Garden Martyn Rix Non-Fiction Plants Roger Phillips Science & Nature

About the Author

Roger Phillips is an award-winning photographer with a reputation spanning thirty years. He has consistently pioneered the use of colour photography for the reliable identification of natural history subjects, and has written more than twenty books dedicated to this purpose. He has written and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening for the BBC and Channel 4. He received his MBE for his work on London Square Gardens. Martyn Rix is a leading botanist, plant collector, gardener, independent botanical advisor and author. He was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Veitch Memorial Gold Medal and has contributed writing pieces to magazines such as Country Life and Gardens Illustrated. He is the editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Together, Phillips and Rix have collaborated on over thirty plant books, including Vegetables: The Definitive Guide for Gardeners.

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