Vegetable GardeningAllen & Unwin, 2004 - 256 pages Who can resist luscious, vine-ripened tomatoes, sweet and tender salad greens or crisp, refreshing cucumbers? Whether you have a few tubs on a balcony or a traditional potager, this title tells you how to grow, harvest and use vegetables from your own garden. |
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30 minutes aphids areas artichokes asparagus autumn bags and freeze beetroot bitter Blanch boiling Brassicaceae broad beans broccoli Brussels sprouts bulbs cabbage carrots celeriac celery chicory chillies chopped cm 1 ft cold colour complete fertilizer compost CONDITIONS Climate containers cooked cool courgette crops cucumbers Culinary cultivated diseases drain eaten edible eggplants eggplants aubergines endive flavour flowers freeze for 30 freezer bags fruit garden beds garlic germinate green GROWING METHOD Planting grown growth HARVESTING Picking keep kohlrabi leaves leeks lettuce manure mature moist months mulch mushrooms onions organic matter pack in freezer pack in plastic peas peeled peppers capsicums pests pods polytunnels potatoes radish refrigerator remove air root sauces season seedlings shallot skin sliced snow peas soil soups Sow seeds spinach spray spring sprouts stalks stems stir-fries Storing summer sweet Swiss chard tablespoon temperatures tomatoes tray trench tropical tubers turnips varieties warm weeds weeks winter zucchini
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Page 8 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 12 - Admit if it should please God, that any City or towne should be besieged with the enemy, what better prouision for the greatest number of people can bee, then every garden to be sufficiently planted with Garrets.
Page 12 - Kitchin-Garden don't thrive better or faster in any part of the Universe, than there. They have all the Culinary Plants that grow in England, and in far greater perfection...
Page 191 - Transfer to a bowl of cold water then peel the skin away from the crosses it should slip off easily.
Page 184 - Store potatoes in paper bags to allow moisture to escape and to keep light out. Keep in a cool and dry. dark. well-ventilated place to prevent them from sprouting.