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The Sceptical Gardener: The Thinking Person's Guide to Good Gardening

By Ken Thompson

Book information

Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Year
2015
ISBN
9781848319332, 1848319339
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1423379 bytes)
Edition
Illustrated
Pages
304\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2022-10-24 08:35:42

Description

How are birds linked to house prices? How can a gardener improve the flavour of their vegetables? Do wildflowers really thrive in poor soil? In this collection of articles from The Telegraph, biologist and gardening columnist Ken Thompson takes a scientific look at some of the greater and lesser questions faced by gardeners everywhere in a bid to sort the genuine wisdom from the hokum. What is the ideal temperature for a compost heap? What do bees do that improves strawberries? Why are gardeners in literature always such dummies? This is an expert s gardening miscellany, aimed at making you not necessarily a better gardener, but probably a far more thoughtful one.

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