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How to Grow Your Dinner: Without Leaving the House by Claire Ratinon has advice on how to grow plants you can eat, and talks about growing them in your garden, and also on your windowsill (microgreens for instance).

There’s advice about growing from seed, what kind of compost you want to use at different times, and advice about how to make the best of the space you have.

The book has lots of lovely photos, and suggestions for what plants you should grow, and advice about them such as feeding them, pollination, light, when you should start growing from seed.

If you’re thinking about vegetable plants, herbs, or  mushrooms, then it’s got lots of advice and help!

How to Grow Your Dinner: Without Leaving the House was published on 27th August 2020, and is available to buy from Amazon, Waterstones and your local independent bookshop.

You can follow Claire Ratinon on her website and Instagram.

I was given this book in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Laurence King Publishing.

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Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again is Page Dickey’s experience of leaving a well established garden and starting again.

Page Dickey is an American writer about gardens, and lived at Duck Hill, creating the gardens there during the 30 odd years she lived there.  She and her husband decide to move, and start again, at Church House, and this the book of her experiences of starting again.

The photos in this book are amazing, and Page Dickey tells you her reasons for things like trying not using weed killer, being aware of invasive species, and the problems with not having a deer fence.  She also describes reasons for putting plants in various places, and why she wanted to have native species of plants in the grounds.

This is a book that you’d enjoy even if you’re just dipping your toes in gardening as there’s a lot of passion and wisdom in these pages.  And did I mention the beautiful photographs?

Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again was published on 22nd September 2020, and is available on Amazon, Waterstones and your local independent bookshop.

You can follow Page Dickey on her website and Instagram.

I was given this book in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Timber Press.

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Indoor Kitchen Gardening Handbook by Elizabeth Millard is a guide for how you can grow plants inside, including micro greens – seedling forms of the larger plant – to things like carrots and chard.

The book goes through things like sunlight, through flow of air, pests (mice adore seeds), and other advice.

If you’re wanting to get in to growing plants for food, and are thinking about growing them inside, then this is a good book for you.  It doesn’t pull it’s punches about all of the things that you need to consider, and also gives tips like what electric lights you can use.

Indoor Kitchen Gardening Handbook was published on 8th September 2020, and is available to buy from Amazon, Waterstones and your local independent bookshop.

You can follow Elizabeth Millard on Twitter and Instagram.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, and so my thanks to NetGalley and to Quatro Publishing.