Excellent reference manual in that it goes beyond just cultivation and growing.

Book divided into 8 main sections:

Basic guide to the kitchen garden covers everything to do with preparation, planning, cultivation, tools.

Growing and cooking is an A-Z entry for veg, fruit and herbs - plant info, cultivation, harvesting and includes recipes for cooking.

Food growers calendar gives month by month breakdown of what should be done inthe veg, fruit and herb garden.

There's a section on pests and diseases and chemical control, a section on home preserving (freezing, bottling, jellies etc) followed by sections on wild food from the countrside, making wine and keeping poultry and bees. ( )

I could not manage without this book as it is so easy to use and gives wonderful ideas on how to use the crops you have so carefully grown.