The Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1 Starting Out, Growing and Techniques: Everything You Need To Know To Grow Fruits and Vegetables

The Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1 Starting Out, Growing and Techniques: Everything You Need To Know To Grow Fruits and Vegetables

by Jason Johns
The Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1 Starting Out, Growing and Techniques: Everything You Need To Know To Grow Fruits and Vegetables

The Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1 Starting Out, Growing and Techniques: Everything You Need To Know To Grow Fruits and Vegetables

by Jason Johns

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Overview

The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" is the first in a series of books teaching you everything you need to know to get started growing fruit and vegetables. Whether you have an allotment, a smallholding or a vegetable garden at home, you will learn how to start growing in the ground and in containers.


This step-by-step guide starts from first principles, teaching you everything from how to choose an allotment to clearing weeds, coping with the weather and how to set your vegetable garden up. You learn exactly what to look for when choosing an allotment plus how to apply and how allotment sites work, which is useful for new allotment owners. Even if you are growing at home, there is plenty of information to help you get started growing.


Whether you are brand new to growing your own or whether you have dabbled, this book teaches you everything about owning and running an allotment. Written by a long term allotment owner, the information is first hand and gives you a real world view of having an allotment, packed full of valuable information to help you make the most of your allotment.


The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" goes into detail about how to work an allotment and grow fruit and vegetables. As you read this book, you will discover:


  • How to compost, including what you can and cannot compost

  • The common pests you will encounter and how to deal with them

  • The various problems you may encounter and how to overcome them

  • How to grow from seeds plus what F1 and heirloom seeds are

  • When to feed your plants and what fertilisers to use, including how to make your own

  • What companion planting is and how it benefits you and your plants

  • Why you must rotate crops on your allotment and how to do it

  • How to run an allotment with children so they can enjoy it too

  • Different gardening techniques so you know how to look after your vegetable garden

  • Ways to maximise productivity from your allotment while minimising the amount of work you have to do


As well as this, you get a comprehensive guide to sowing seeds showing you when to sow different types of vegetable seed, when to plant outside and when to harvest crops. You also get a month by month guide telling you what jobs to do at an allotment, including:

  • Vegetable garden jobs

  • Fruit garden jobs

  • What to harvest

  • What to sow

  • Greenhouse jobs


If you are new to growing vegetables, this is the book for you. Whether you are growing at home or growing at an allotment, this book is full of useful information helping you get started and grow successfully.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940162257110
Publisher: Jason Johns
Publication date: 03/28/2021
Series: The Complete Allotment Guide , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Jason has been a keen gardener for over twenty years, having taken on numerous weed infested patches and turned them into productive vegetable gardens.


One of his first gardening experiences was digging over a 400 square foot garden in its entirety and turning it into a vegetable garden, much to the delight of his neighbours who all got free vegetables! It was through this experience that he discovered his love of gardening and started to learn more and more about the subject.


His first encounter with a greenhouse resulted in a tomato infested greenhouse but he soon learnt how to make the most of a greenhouse and now grows a wide variety of plants from grapes to squashes to tomatoes and more. Of course, his wife is delighted with his greenhouse as it means the windowsills in the house are no longer filled with seed trays every spring.


He is passionate about helping people learn to grow their own fresh produce and enjoy the many benefits that come with it, from the exercise of gardening to the nutrition of freshly picked produce. He often says that when you’ve tasted a freshly picked tomato you’ll never want to buy another one from a store again!


Jason is also very active in the personal development community, having written books on self-help, including subjects such as motivation and confidence. He has also recorded over 80 hypnosis programs, being a fully qualified clinical hypnotist which he sells from his website www.MusicForChange.com.
He hopes that this book has been a pleasure for you to read and that you have learned a lot about the subject and welcomes your feedback either directly or through an Amazon review. This feedback is used to improve his books and provide better quality information for his readers.


Jason also loves to grow giant and unusual vegetables and is still planning on breaking the 400lb barrier with a giant pumpkin. He hopes that with his new allotment plot he’ll be able to grow even more exciting vegetables to share with his readers.

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