Eat What You Grow: How to Have an Undemanding Edible Garden That Is Both Beautiful and Productive

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Through anecdotal advice, you will learn how to raise and nurture your plants; from trees and shrubs to bulbs and climbers, Fowler covers everything from where to plant them, how to feed the soil and when they should be harvested. In ‘Eat What You Grow’, Alys Fowler shows you how to create a rich, biodiverse garden that feeds not only you, but supports a wide range of pollinators, bees and butterflies, as well as other wildlife. I bought this book alongside “The Edible Garden”, (which i had been watching on the television), thinking it would be a food addition to my gardening library. In Eat What You Grow, Alys shows you how to create a rich, biodiverse garden that feeds not only you, but supports a wide range of pollinators, bees and butterflies, as well as other wildlife.

Allows you to use the information to suit your own garden and needs, rather than mapping out a plan that you then struggle to adapt to your own conditions.She also suggests effective design techniques for ensuring that your garden looks as good as it smells and tastes! And as I now embark on my second year in a new garden, Eat What You Grow has provided a source of inspiration to consider more ambitious plans for each of the seasons. It's lacking the introductory detail to give structure, and some of the chapters feel rather cursory. She has keen interest in agriculture and food politics and is setting up an urban farm in Birmingham.

Alys Fowler trained at the Horticultural Society, the New York Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. By comparison, there are far fewer photos, and the ones that are present are grainy and most frustratingly unlabelled!In Eat What You Grow, Alys Fowler offers expertise on cultivating a rich and biodiverse edible garden that will attract wildlife, including important pollinators, while also providing you with incredibly nourishing and wondrously home-grown crops. However, the book does work as a concept with its own focus and I think if you haven't read Fowler's earlier work then this is actually the best place to start.