Newbies - buy this !

[Two_Sheds]

To all newbies (and oldies, come to that)
If you only buy one book on veg gardening, buy this one. The best couple of quid you'll ever spend. It's not a glossy lifestyle coffee-table book, to be sure, but it will answer a lot of your basic HOW/WHEN/WHAT/WHERE questions. You can log onto the Grapevine for your WHY? questions
eBay.co.uk - vegetable expert, vegetable expert Books, Comics Magazines, Non-Fiction Books items at low prices

(I listed eBay cos amazon are out of stock. Its available at all major book retailers too I imagine )

[smallblueplanet]

Never really read it, don't like the 'Expert Series', we can't all like the same thing! - Try 'Grow Your Own Vegetables' by Joy Larkcom.

Amazon.co.uk: Grow Your Own Vegetables: Joy Larkcom: Books

[Eyren]

I love Joy Larkcom's "Organic Salad Garden" book - really inspirational but practical as well. Carol Klein's "Grow Your Own Veg" book (to go with the BBC series) is good too, especially on the topic of growing in a small space, and "The Half-Hour Allotment" has a lot of realistic advice for us full-time employees/part-time allotmenteers!

Amazon.co.uk: Grow Your Own Veg (Rhs): Carol Klein,Royal Horticultural Society: Books

Amazon.co.uk: The Half-hour Allotment (Royal Horticultural Society): Lia Leendertz: Books

Of course, they all cost a good deal more than the "Expert" book

[rustylady]

Readers Digest Books are really good reference books, if a little dated. I have The Gardening Year, The Cookery Year. They're not light reading, but the sort of books you can dip into for information.

[Minty]

To all newbies (and oldies, come to that)
If you only buy one book on veg gardening, buy this one. The best couple of quid you'll ever spend. It's not a glossy lifestyle coffee-table book, to be sure, but it will answer a lot of your basic HOW/WHEN/WHAT/WHERE questions. You can log onto the Grapevine for your WHY? questions
eBay.co.uk - vegetable expert, vegetable expert Books, Comics Magazines, Non-Fiction Books items at low prices

(I listed eBay cos amazon are out of stock. Its available at all major book retailers too I imagine )

TOTALLY agree, I bought about a dozen books last year and found this one the easiest to mentally digest, Minty

[jeannine]

If you can find it, Christopher Lloyd's 'Gardener Cook' is one of the best books ever written about GYO. He was a man who knew how to grow veg and was (in MHO) the best garden writer of all time.