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The Book "How to Grow Your Own
Food"
How to Grow Your Own Food was published in 2007 and aims to be
a week-by-week guide to wild life friendly fruit and vegetable
gardening. Many of the articles in this gardening book were originally published in the
Blackmore Vale Magazine as result of contributions by the author
"Dirty Nails".
To this day, no one knows who Dirty Nails is. References are
made to a Mrs Dirty Nails in some of his articles so we can be
reasonably sure that the author is a man. But is this just a ploy to keep us in the dark? After all, what
male cares if his nails are dirty or not. I suspect the
author is female ..... This book does exactly what it claims to do. It has
two pages for each week in the year all packed with information. The
writing style is amusing from beginning to end and so easy to read.
Take the 3rd week in October as an example. An article
on sowing broad beans in October explains how to do it, why do it in
autumn rather than spring and the advantages. The logic is that autumn
sown broad beans will mature earlier, produce a better crop and beat
the inevitable black fly attack. I know I'm going to try it this year.
Autumn sown garlic worked a treat, so why not broad beans? There's also an explanation of which butterflies
hibernate, where and why. Then there's the Vegetable Snippets column.
Many weeks Dirty Nails explains various techniques such as soil
texture and how to improve it. Week 3 of October bucks that trend by
writing about how good it is to have fresh, tasty produce from your
own garden or allotment. Finally there is the section on what to do in the
garden this week. Written in language we can all understand, it's
extremely useful. At the end of the book is a fine collection of
recipes which are aimed at the gardener. It's unlikely that you would read this book all in one
go. I'm going to leave it on my bed side table and read a couple of pages
about "this week" every so often. Over a year this book would
give the amateur gardener a huge amount of information in an amusing
and easily readable form. We thoroughly recommend it for gardeners and
also as a birthday or Christmas present. Published By: Spring Hill COMMENTS END OF
REVIEW
First Published: 2007
Author: Dirty Nails of the Blackmore Vale Magazine
Title: How to Grow Your Own Food
ISBN: 978-1-905862-11-5
Price: �10.99
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