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Organic Kitchen Garden
 By Juliet Roberts
Whether you’re digging up a basket full of your first potatoes, picking your first ripe tomatoes, or popping juicy pods bursting with peas, with Organic Kitchen Garden you can watch your garden flourish with delicious, home-grown produce that you can be proud of.
Over the last decade, the retail market for organic products has grown by an average of 27%.* Be it health concerns, ecological awareness or purely the satisfaction of growing your own, it is clear many of us are making the change to a more organic way of living. Here, Juliet Roberts, in conjunction with her gardening guru Mike Thurlow, provides the definitive guide for all gardeners interested in the art of organic vegetable growing.
Organic Kitchen Garden enables us all to pick up the gardening fork and tuck into the delights of home-grown vegetables. Carefully explaining how to set up a vegetable patch, prepare the soil, care for your crops and stagger your harvesting times, Juliet and Mike guide us through each month, allowing us to get the most out of every season.
The book provides:
- Expert horticultural advise on specific vegetables from head kitchen gardener Mike Thurlow
- Monthly lists to remind you which jobs need doing and what to expect from your garden
- Outstanding photography and useful diagrams to illustrate the various processes and techniques
- Helpful tips on everything from assessing your plot to crop rotation
- Invaluable information on organic methods of pest and disease control
- Practical, beautiful and an invaluable gardening reference, Organic Kitchen Garden shows you how to grow your own food and discover the taste of really fresh fruit and vegetables
- Photographed in the 18th-Century walled kitchen garden of Audley End in Essex, stunning photography demonstrates the various techniques and processes used in organic gardening
About Juliet Roberts
The Editor of Gardens Illustrated, Juliet Roberts is an experienced gardener and writer and has been an enthusiastic organic vegetable grower since helping her dad on his allotment as a child. She now has her own allotment in Bristol, where she loves experimenting to find the best varieties for flavour. Having followed the progress at her favourite walled kitchen gardens at Audley End in Essex through the seasons, Juliet is keen to pass on all she has learnt from her mentor, Mike Thurlow, its head kitchen gardener.
The book is available from Amazon priced £10.49
* (Statistic from Organic Market Report, 2007, Soil Association).
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