Grow Food for Free: The easy, sustainable, zero-cost way to a plentiful harvest

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In Huw Richards book he shows that you don't have to invest a lot of money into creating a successful vegetable garden.

While reusing those items is definitely better than not, and certainly easy to acquire if you’re going low-cost, I was a little surprised, given plastics can easily leech into soil and water. This home gardening book shows you everything you need to barter, borrow, repurpose, and propagate your way to a bountiful harvest without burdening your bank balance! Information about annual and perennial plants includes how to start, grow and harvest everything from tomatoes, leaf crops, berries and root vegetables. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Once you’ve found a good site, Huw recommends his favourite low-maintenance, high-yield crops, covering first annuals, then perennials (the key to growing free food, as with minimal effort they can give you harvests year after year).

Packed with tried-and-tested advice, this gardening book covers:- Finding a space to grow - in the garden or on a terrace or balcony - and sourcing the materials you need- Deciding what to grow your crops in (the ground, a raised bed, or containers)- Clear growing instructions on more than 30 species of popular annual and perennial crops- Huw Richards' 52-week journal of how he grew his own food for free for a year without spending a penny- Advice on how to go about selling your produce to raise money to expand your growing areaAuthor Huw Richards is a man on a mission. The goods do not need to be in their original packaging however in a sellable condition, and at your own cost and risk.

Grow Food for Free teaches you how to produce no-cost, low-maintenance fruit and veg – and finding low-cost ways to overcome common gardening worries. There's information on procuring pallets and making raised beds out of the pallets, but nothing about how finding your USDA zone for growing and specific plants that do well in each zone.

Otherwise, once I got over the culture shock (he talks about putting cardboard on your beds over the winter so that weeds don't grow! This book is essentially a plant-by-plant guide, and it's pretty good at describing how to plant, harvest, and sustain a garden with the plants it covers.

Huw Richards wants us all to be growing our own fruit and vegetables, and he wants to show that we don’t need much money (or even our own garden) to do so.Our Non-Fiction Range includes: Academic, Photography, Audio books, Business, Cook Books, Craft Books, Health and Fitness Books, Mind, Body, Spirit (Tarot). Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. This is not intended to be a full statement of all your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations. Außerdem verschweigt er, dass es einen großen Unterschied zwischen samenfesten Sorten und F1-Hybriden gibt. Registered address: Unit 31, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom.