Grow Your Own

Grow Your Own is a comprehensive guide providing practical guidelines that will teach you how to fully utilise your garden (large or small) by means of alternative as well as traditional growing methods. The recommendations aren’t limited to the more ordinary plants, either. Grow any variation of vegetables, fruit, nuts or even herbs and spices. This guide is logically presented to discuss the respective plants along with brief, but thorough, guidelines detailing requirements for soil preparation, propagation, cultivation, harvest and storage. Enjoy additional tips about cultivating in containers, choosing the most suitable plants for different spaces, deterring pests, companion planting, and combatting diseases and other problems. A handy summary about each plant offers a quick reference with nifty textboxes that highlight other interesting facts about the plant species concerned, to gain some bonus insights. JJ van Rensburg has a diploma in Horticulture and is a co-owner of Garden World. He has been a guest on various shows as a gardening expert and writes articles for Home magazine, and the Garden World. JJ regularly teams up with Derrich Gardner to share his gardening knowledge on the radio station’s with many avid listeners. Tinus Oberholzer has a degree in Horticulture and is a co-founder of Plantae Orchids, a nursery specialising in orchids and rare and exotic plants. Tinus has partaken in the development and writing of many books and articles of which, most notably, Spice Route and In Full Harvest, a series written for SA Garden/SA Tuin. EXTENT: 256 pages FORMAT: 240 x 256 mm PBK, full colour throughout over 300 photographs and sketches