Title

ISBN

Author

Pictures of

Content

Alan Titchmarsh's How to be a Gardener Back to Basics

0-563-53740-X

Alan Titchmarsh

Gardening basics with how plants grow, planning and making borders, from season to season, weeding, garden maintenance, and lawns

Containers

1-84309-321-9

Stephanie Donaldson

800 containers

A comprehensive guide to container gardening with practical ideas for creating 150 beautiful containers of all kinds and planting instructions

Gardening with green manures

HDRA

Green manure plant diagrams

Good descriptions of plants for green manuring with their cultivation and use. Thin Booklet

Growing Better Plants

0-85202-682-X

Gardening Which?

The Gardening Which? guide to choosing composts and feeds to get the most from container plants. Thin Booklet

Growing From Seed

0-9512199-0-1

Mr. Fothergill’s Seeds Ltd

50 colour pictures

Step-by-step guide describing basic details of how seeds grow, then individual methods and varieties and gives tips on how to raise and use some of the more popular flowers and vegetables

Growing Under Glass

1-85732-908-2

Kenneth A. Beckett

Line drawings

Book from RHS encyclopedia of practical gardening. How to select and run a greenhouse, how to propagate and use different types of greenhouse

Home-Grown Food

0-00-635050-X

David Wickers

How to grow vegetables, fruit and herbs in the home

How to Grow Pinks

The British National Carnation Society

How to grow the modern pink, laced pinks and miniature pinks. Thin Booklet

Middletons All The Year Round Gardening Guide

Middleton

How to produce vegetables and fruit during each week of the year in World War II

Organic Grounds Maintenance Manual

0-905343-24-7

HDRA

This aims to encourage the use of organic methods in schools grounds. It is aimed at schools of all types. It has been produced by HDRA as part of a DETR-sponsored project: Go organic in school grounds.

Successful Fruit Tree Growing

Frank P. Matthews

Recommended fruit

22 pages of details for successful growing of apples, pears, plums, gages, damsons and cherries.

Successful Organic Gardening the Complete Guide to Growing Flowers, Fruit and Vegetables Naturally

0-86318-200-3

Geoff Hamilton

Line drawings and plants

The complete guide to growing flowers, fruit and vegetables organically

Success with Container Gardening for Large Plants

1-85391-395-2

H. and D. Mittman

60 colour photos, diagrams and usefull tables

The Mittmans are the proprietors of a nursery in Salzbergen, Germany that specializes in large container plants. Clear concise information about purchasing and positioning, watering and fertilizing together with overwintereing and repotting is given in this thin book for over 120 deciduous and evergreen plants.

Summer Containers 14 Gorgeous Displays to Create

Garden Answers

14 imaginative ideas for hanging baskets, patio containers and wall pots. Each planting idea has been picked for good looks, staying power and value for money. Thin Booklet

The Arboriculturalist's Companion

0-631-16774-9

N.D.G. James

Growing and maintenance of trees with spacing, transplanting, pruning, identity and treatment of tree diseases and insect pests

The Fruit Garden Displayed

0-304-34016-2

Harry Baker

Fruit

The complete guide to successful tree and soft fruit growing. 4 fruit garden plans. Calendar of work to be done each month.

The National Chrysanthemum Society Chrysanthemum Guide

K.M. Dear

Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums flower from August to December. A comprehensive practical guide to the cultivation of the chrysanthemum. Thin Booklet

The Plant Care Manual

1-85029-402-X

Stefan Buczacki

Plants

Advice on soil, site, watering, feeding, pruning, pests and diseases, propagation and troubleshooting of 300 garden plants

The Reader's Digest The Gardening Year

Roy Hay

12 months of Flowers, Pests and Diseases

Monthly work plan for complete garden with plant descriptions

The Vegetable Garden Displayed

Joy Larkcom

Vegetables, pests and diseases

The complete guide to successful vegetable growing of 60 vegetables outdoors

Vegetable Plotter

0-903-50506-1

Dr. D.G. Hessayon

Diagrams

What to do and how to do it for 27 vegetables. Thin Booklet

Year-Round Containers, Baskets & Boxes

1-85391-668-4

Graham Strong and Charlie Phoenix

300 colour photos of plants in containers

Step-by-step guide to grow over 60 of their favourite planting schemes into pots, tubs, hanging baskets and windowboxes out in the garden.