How To Grow Food - A Wartime Guide

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In 1940 Doreen Wallace, prolific novelist, academic, social campaigner & farmer, wrote a book for Batsford on vegetable growing, as part of the publisher's iconic Home Front Handbook series. With its chatty, readable writing style & its beautiful Brian Cook cover, the book became a wartime classic, invaluable for everyone growing fruit & vegetables at home to help the war effort. This reissue of that important book retains all the appeal of the original. As well as being a great read, it contains a wealth of information that is still useful for vegetable gardeners today. It tells you what fruit & vegetables to grow & when, how & why, how to keep down weeds & pests, explores ' The Vexed Question of Small Fruit', gives tips on arrangement & rotation of crops, & even touches on the subject of keeping hens & pigs in your garden. Full of sensible practical advice mixed with whimsical musings & a great deal of charm, this book would make a perfect gift for any gardener.