“If there’s one place in the world where an old, discarded eighties bathtub doesn’t look out of the ordinary, it’s an allotment,” says author Jonathan Stevens, founder of the allotment blog Real Men Sow. Many similarly matter-of-fact quotes can be found through the pages of this very readable guide to growing vegetables.
This is an honest and pragmatic guide to grow-your-own, based largely on Jonathan’s experiences of growing fruit and vegetables on an allotment. It manages to steer clear of doling out generic advice, something which many grow-your-own guides seem incapable of.
Another way that this book stands out from the crowd is in the way it shuns the trend for explaining how to grow every edible crop and instead focusses on those which Jonathan believes to be high-yielding, value for money and in his own words having a good ‘productivity versus faff ratio’.
Throughout the book, Jonathan shows an understanding of the potential danger of an allotment plot becoming overwhelming for its tenant, and his advice is tailored towards keeping a veg plot manageable as well as how to save money.
If you want to learn more about growing your own food and want someone to tell it like it is rather than sell a dream, then this is the book for you.
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