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The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Vegetables
The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Vegetables
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eBook - ePub
The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Vegetables
The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Vegetables
About this book
This guide from the experts of Kew Royal Botanical Gardens is filled with tips and advice to help you grow your best vegetable garden ever!
In this book Kew's Kitchen Gardener, Helena Dove, combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty to make a comprehensive and informative guide with all you need to know to master theart of growing vegetables.
She shows how to grow some of the most popular staple crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, radishes and rocket, and also some more unusual and exciting choices such as oca, tomatillo, seakale and yacon.
She gives easy to follow instructions on how to be a successful vegetable gardener, plus 12 exciting projects to try throughout the year including forcing rhubarb, creating an asparagus border and growing in raised beds.
From sowing, to planting young plants, to hardening off and harvesting, find out what you need to do and when, to produce the most magnificent harvests. All the advice is underpinned by the expertise and authority of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and illustrated from Kew's world-famous botanical collection.
With this book, you wil be able to reap a rich bounty of delicious vegetables from just a few packets of seed and some fertile ground!
This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing Herbs and Guide to Growing House Plants.
In this book Kew's Kitchen Gardener, Helena Dove, combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty to make a comprehensive and informative guide with all you need to know to master theart of growing vegetables.
She shows how to grow some of the most popular staple crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, radishes and rocket, and also some more unusual and exciting choices such as oca, tomatillo, seakale and yacon.
She gives easy to follow instructions on how to be a successful vegetable gardener, plus 12 exciting projects to try throughout the year including forcing rhubarb, creating an asparagus border and growing in raised beds.
From sowing, to planting young plants, to hardening off and harvesting, find out what you need to do and when, to produce the most magnificent harvests. All the advice is underpinned by the expertise and authority of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and illustrated from Kew's world-famous botanical collection.
With this book, you wil be able to reap a rich bounty of delicious vegetables from just a few packets of seed and some fertile ground!
This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing Herbs and Guide to Growing House Plants.
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Plants
FRUITING VEGETABLE
Okra
Abelmoschus esculentus aka bhindi, lady’s finger
Okra is a heat-loving annual and is part of the mallow family. The main harvest is of the immature green seed pods, but its leaves are also edible.
Family
Malvaceae
Height
1m/3ft
Spacing
50cm/20in<>plants;
70cm/27in<>rows
Hardiness
Half-hardy annual
Position
Full sun
Edible parts
Seed pods, leaves
Harvest
Late summer–autumn
WHERE TO GROW
Okra needs a sunny sheltered site, preferably with free-draining soil, although it tolerates heavier clay.
HOW TO GROW
Sow seeds under glass in spring; they need a minimum of 16°C/61°F to germinate, with optimum growing temperatures of 20–30°C/68–86°F. Allow to grow to 15cm/6in tall before hardening off and planting in their final positions; at the same time, stake plants. Pinch out any strong growing tips, to encourage bushy plants.
GROWING TIP
Soaking seeds in warm water for several hours before sowing will give better germination rates.
NOTABLE CULTIVARS
• ‘Burgundy’ has red skin.
• ‘Clemson’s Spineless’ is extremely vigorous.
OKRA POWER
Okra oil is being investigated as a biodiesel, which may be able to power the cars of the future.
Okra oil is being investigated as a biodiesel, which may be able to power the cars of the future.
ALLIUM
Leek
Allium ampeloprasum
Over winter months, leeks are an invaluable crop, adding a sweetness to many dishes and festive occasions (see Festive winter vegetables). They are a very attractive vegetable with blue leaves, which would not look out of place in an herbaceous display (see Using vegetables as a decorative display).
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Height
40cm/16in
Spacing
10cm/4in<>plants;
30cm/12in<>rows
Hardiness
Hardy
Position
Full sun
Edible parts
Leaves
Harvest
Autumn–early spring
WHERE TO GROW
Grow in a sunny site with free-draining soil because leeks do not want to sit in water. They are heavy feeders so add organic matter to their area in the autumn before planting.
HOW TO GROW
Although traditionally sown into a seedbed in early spring and then moved into th...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION TO GROWING VEGETABLES
- PLANTS
- Troubleshooting
- What to do when
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright