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Martin Crawford - How to Grow Perennial Vegetables, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

How to Grow Perennial Vegetables

Low-maintenance, low-impact vegetable gardening

Av Martin Crawford

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Beskrivning
How to Grow Perennial Vegetables gives comprehensive advice on all types of perennial vegetables, from ground-cover plants and coppiced trees to plants for bog gardens and edible woodland plants.Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow. Whereas traditional vegetable plots are largely made up of short-lived, annual vegetable plants, perennials are edible plants that live longer than three years. Grown as permaculture plants, they take up less of your time and effort than annual vegetables, and extend the harvesting season - avoiding the hungry gap between the end of the winter harvest and the start of the summer harvest of annual vegetables. Unlike annual vegetables, perennials cover and protect the soil all year round, which maintains the structure of the soil and helps everything growing in it. Humous levels build up, nutrients don’t wash out of the soil, and mycorrhizal fungi, critical for storing carbon within the soil, are preserved. Perennial plants also contain higher levels of mineral nutrients than annuals because they have larger, permanent root systems, capable of using space more efficientlyWritten by gardening expert Martin Crawford, this book gives comprehensive advice on how to grow and care for both common perennial vegetables like rhubarb, Jerusalem artichokes, horseradish and asparagus and unusual edible plants such as skirret, red chicory, nodding onions, Babington's leek, scorzonera, sea kale, wild rocket, coppiced trees and aquatic plants.With plenty of cooking tips, colour photographs and illustrations throughout and an A-Z of over 100 perennial edibles, it is an inspiration for all gardeners.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-04-05
  • Mått: 165 x 241 x 12 mm
  • Vikt: 598 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781900322843
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Martin Crawford has had broad and varied horticultural/agricultural experience over the years – experience that led him to the concept of forest gardening as a sustainable system that can flourish in our changing climate conditions. This led to the founding of the Agroforestry Research Trust, a non-profit-making charity that researches temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops. At his forest garden in Dartington, Devon, Martin systematically researches plant interactions and unusual crops. He also runs a commercial tree nursery specialising in unusual trees and shrubs, and has a large trial site, researching fruit and nut trees.

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This lovely book makes it clear that we are not just missing a trick, we are missing a feast.

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3 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

  1. 5/5 Viceversa

    En perfekt startpunkt för den som vill planera en skogsträdgård eller bara vill experimentera med att blanda in fleråriga ätbara växter i sin trädgård. Någon motsvarande bok finns inte på svenska vad jag vet.

    Den här boken tar mest upp lågväxande "grönsaker", inga träd och i stort sett inga buskar finns med. Men det finns desto fler doldisar som man inte så ofta stöter på och som det kan vara svårt att hitta bra beskrivningar av. Samt förstås många klassiker som kron- och jordärtskocka, rabarber osv, men de finns ju i de flesta odlingsböcker.

    Stora delar av boken utgörs av en växtkatalog som är väldigt uttömmande. På varje växt får man veta härdighet, odlingssätt, sjukdomar, när och hur de kan skördas samt hur de tillagas.

    Alla växter i boken är förstås inte fleråriga i Sverige, men det är ganska lätt att översätta Storbritanniens växtzoner till våra egna.

  2. 5/5 Maria
  3. 5/5 Carl-Michael W

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