RHS Allotment Handbook & Planner

The Royal Horticultural Society

Written by the Royal Horticultural Society's foremost fruit and veg experts, RHS Allotment Handbook & Planner provides the lifestyle-changing advice that gardeners need for growing a year-round supply of healthy, edible crops for their garden.

With RHS tried-and-tested varieties, this book covers what to grow, how and where to grow it.

Exploring best practice growing advice, allotment life and its numerous benefits, this book also includes a month-by-month calendar of tasks to guide gardeners through the year.

(Summary by Waterstones)

Media Reviews:

I was initially disappointed by this - there didn't seem a lot to it. As time's gone on, however, I've come to appreciated its straightforward simplicity as a reference.

My main complaint is that it could do with a lot more on diseases, how to avoid them, selection of disease-resistant varieties, and how to proceed if you find disease in your fruit and veggies. It could be argued this is a topic for a separate book, but given how important things like crop-rotation and variety selection are for avoiding disease, I felt at least an extra ten pages on this would have given it a lot more substance. Different strategies such as no-dig and various composting strategies could also have done with more detail.

Still, I'm glad I bought it.

Ru Pringle http://rupringle.com/fiction