Grow Food for Free: The Sustainable, Zero-cost, Low-effort Way to a Bountiful Harvest

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Grow Food for Free: The Sustainable, Zero-cost, Low-effort Way to a Bountiful Harvest Author: Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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Pages: 224 Language: English ISBN: 9780241411995 Categories: , , , , , , , ,

Grow your own fruit and veg without spending a penny. 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. Building on the success of Veg in One Bed, Huw’s second book Grow Food for Free shows you how to produce no-cost, low-maintenance fruit and veg. Learn about the space you need and how to prepare it, how to make your own compost, how to get hold of your first set of seeds, and then strategies to multiply the seeds you have. Can’t afford a raised bed? Try repurposing an old wooden pallet. Don’t have money to buy lots of different seeds? Look in your kitchen cupboards for food that you can plant. Don’t have a garden? See if there is anyone in your local community that will let you grow veg in their garden. Whatever you are worried about, there will be a low-cost way of overcoming it. 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). Key plant maintenance instructions are provided throughout the book, as well as how to fend off common pests and diseases. Discover how you can barter, borrow, repurpose, and propagate your way to a bountiful harvest of fruit and vegetables without burdening your bank balance.

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Author Biography

Huw Richards has been growing organic food in his family's garden for the last 17 years and recently launched Abundance Academy - online courses on garden productivity. Huw's YouTube channel has over 500,000 subscribers - the most popular videos have more than 3 million views. Huw has written three books with DK, Veg in One Bed (2019), Grow Food For Free (2020) and The Vegetable Grower's Handbook (2022).