Weeds by John Walker

Weeds by John Walker

In this earth-friendly, organic guide, John Walker's fresh approach encourages you to see garden weeds as more than simply unwelcome invaders in your flower borders, kitchen garden, allotment, greenhouse, polytunnel, patio, courtyard, containers, lawn, path or drive. Whatever your garden's size, Weeds will help you identify, make use of and tackle the weeds you find there.

This accessible, illustrated and updated guide, with over 100 full colour photographs includes.

- Information on how different weeds grow, spread and survive, and what they can actually tell you about your garden or allotment

- Tips for using weeds to improve the fertility of your garden, feed your plants and encourage wildlife such as bees and other pollinators

- Practical, hands-on techniques for preventing, clearing and curtailing weeds without using chemical weedkillers (herbicides)

- A photographic directory to help you identify 60 common garden weeds, showing at-a-glance how easy, difficult or urgent dealing with each one is

- Lists of insect-friendly plants for 'bug banks', and those for weed-smothering ground cover

- Advice on clearing weedy ground without doing any back-breaking digging

Weeds is an essential and timeless go-to reference for every gardener's bookshelf.

Walker, John: - John Walker is an award-winning gardening and environmental author, writer, blogger and publisher with 40 years' experience in practical gardening, teaching and the garden media. He grew up in the countryside, caught the gardening bug while still at school, and trained at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Cambridge University Botanic Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, where he was awarded the Kew Diploma in Horticulture. He is also a qualified teacher. John was features/deputy editor of Garden Answers magazine and contributing editor of Kitchen Garden. John writes about organic, earth-friendly gardening for national newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and the Royal Horticultural Society's journal The Garden. His recent book How to Create an Eco Garden: The Practical Guide to Greener, Planet-friendly Gardening was shortlisted for the 2012 Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year. He also wrote The Bed and Border Planner and Weeds: An Organic, Earth-friendly Guide to their Identification, Use and Control, edited A Gardeners' Guide to Annuals, and contributed to the Garden Organic Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. John has won the Garden Media Guild Environmental Award three times, and has been shortlisted for Gardening Journalist of the Year three times.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780993268342
ISBN 10	099326834X
Title	Weeds
Author	John Walker
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Earth-friendly Books
Year published	2016-07-31
Number of pages	142
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.