Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening: Bumper Crops in Minutes a Day Using Raised Beds, Planning, and Plant Selection

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Spend less time in the garden and get more results! This book demystifies the growing of fruit and vegetables and shows that, with the right approach, it can be done successfully as a weekend project or slotted into a busy week.
Experienced garden designer Clare Matthews explains simple short cuts and unusual low maintenance strategies that really work. Her book is filled with inspirational colour photography from her own weekend vegetable garden where the principles promoted in this book have been tried, tested and proven.
Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening will appeal to the complete novice planning a new vegetable garden as well as the more experienced gardener who is looking to save time and increase productivity. Filled with fantastic images and sound horticultural advice, it is an indispensable guide for anyone with limited time who still wants to achieve high yields from their vegetable plot.

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Publishers Weekly: This lively presentation and no-nonsense guide will stoke the gardening impulses of those who didnt think theyd have time to squeeze it in.
Thoroughly user friendly in organization and presentation, Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening is especially recommended for personal and community library Gardening instructional reference collections.

Author Bio

Clare Matthews is a garden designer and garden writer. In her books, Clare draws heavily on her practical experience of maintaining her own gardens while juggling work and family life to produce straightforward, no-nonsense advice on the easy way to get things done. Her imaginative and slightly quirky take on the garden and her willingness to get her hands dirty is obvious in her design and project books. Clare writes about her gardens at blog.clarematthews.com. She lives in the U.K.