Getting Started On Your Smallholding

"An Introduction to Smallholdings" is a guide if you are considering becoming self-sufficient and moving to a smallholding. This book is written to help you live the dream and move away from the urban areas, into the country and enjoy a simpler way of life. It explains many of the things you must know when you start looking for a smallholding of your own.

Starting a smallholding is a major life change that needs a lot of information and thought. This book guides you through everything you need to know before you move to your dream smallholding. You learn what makes a successful smallholding as well as everything you need to consider before taking on a smallholding to give you the best chance of success.

There is so much to consider, from location to schooling for children to how you are going to generate an income; all of which are very important. This book details all the different things you can grow on a smallholding, including some unusual ideas that can make good money! You will learn some vital growing techniques plus how to keep different types of animal, both as a source of income and food.

As you read "An Introduction to Smallholdings", you will learn

  • What you need to do to make your smallholding successful
  • Everything that needs to be considered before moving to a smallholding
  • What to look for when choosing a location for your smallholding
  • What to grow on your smallholding, including some thoughts on becoming an organic farmer
  • How to work your smallholding in an environmentally friendly way
  • Which livestock you can keep, what you need to know about them and some of the best breeds for smallholders
  • Ways to make an income from your smallholding year after year

And, of course, much, much more.

This book gives you a surprising insight into owning a smallholding and gives you plenty to think about as you make your decision to move to this new life. This is a big, life-changing decision, but this book helps guide you through the potential minefield so you can successfully make the move.

Find out more today about starting your own smallholding and get away from the stress of urban life!

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Everything You Need To Know To Grow Fruits and Vegetables

The Complete Allotment Guide
Part of the The Complete Allotment Guide series:
Editions:Kindle: $ 4.99
ISBN: B08ZYVQXWX
Paperback: $ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1838336059
Size: 8.50 x 11.00 in
Pages: 166

The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" is the first in a series of books teaching you everything you need to know to get started growing fruit and vegetables. Whether you have an allotment, a smallholding or a vegetable garden at home, you will learn how to start growing in the ground and in containers.

This step-by-step guide starts from first principles, teaching you everything from how to choose an allotment to clearing weeds, coping with the weather and how to set your vegetable garden up. You learn exactly what to look for when choosing an allotment plus how to apply and how allotment sites work, which is useful for new allotment owners. Even if you are growing at home, there is plenty of information to help you get started growing.

Whether you are brand new to growing your own or whether you have dabbled, this book teaches you everything about owning and running an allotment. Written by a long term allotment owner, the information is first hand and gives you a real world view of having an allotment, packed full of valuable information to help you make the most of your allotment.

The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" goes into detail about how to work an allotment and grow fruit and vegetables. As you read this book, you will discover:

  • How to compost, including what you can and cannot compost
  • The common pests you will encounter and how to deal with them
  • The various problems you may encounter and how to overcome them
  • How to grow from seeds plus what F1 and heirloom seeds are
  • When to feed your plants and what fertilisers to use, including how to make your own
  • What companion planting is and how it benefits you and your plants
  • Why you must rotate crops on your allotment and how to do it
  • How to run an allotment with children so they can enjoy it too
  • Different gardening techniques so you know how to look after your vegetable garden
  • Ways to maximise productivity from your allotment while minimising the amount of work you have to do

As well as this, you get a comprehensive guide to sowing seeds showing you when to sow different types of vegetable seed, when to plant outside and when to harvest crops. You also get a month by month guide telling you what jobs to do at an allotment, including:

  • Vegetable garden jobs
  • Fruit garden jobs
  • What to harvest
  • What to sow
  • Greenhouse jobs

If you are new to growing vegetables, this is the book for you. Whether you are growing at home or growing at an allotment, this book is full of useful information helping you get started and grow successfully.

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A Month By Month Guide To Growing Vegetables

The Allotment Journal
Part of the The Complete Allotment Guide series:
Editions:Paperback: $ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1838336066
Size: 8.50 x 11.00 in
Pages: 229
Kindle: $ 4.99
ISBN: B0999MX1XN

When you have an allotment, a key part of successfully growing year after year is to plan what you are going to grow and where you are going to grow it. On top of this, you need to remember what you planted where last year so you avoid pests and diseases building up in the soil.

This book helps you to plan your allotment or vegetable garden, covering everything from planning your vegetable plot to tracking what you are planting and more. It is designed to help you get the most out of your allotment while still keeping growing vegetables as good fun and you not getting bogged down with paperwork.

Whether you have an allotment or have turned over part of your garden to growing vegetables, this guide will help you track what you have grown, what has worked and what you can do to improve your yields. As well as all this, the book includes helpful growing guides for over 50 different vegetables commonly grown at home. These step-by-step guides teach you everything you need to know to successfully grow these plants plus how to avoid the common problems people encounter with them.

This vegetable garden planner covers everything you need to know for a successful growing year, including:

  • Track Your Seeds - every gardener has packets of seeds everywhere. You get a helpful table for tracking what seeds you have so you don't buy seeds you don't need
  • Weekly Diary - a week by week diary so you can track what to plant, what to harvest and what jobs need to be done
  • Planting Log - track everything you have planted this year so you can discover patterns or anomalies
  • Pest and Disease Log - track the pests and diseases you encounter in your vegetable garden, which helps you know what treatments work and how the weather affects pests and diseases
  • Lessons Learned - keep track of your harvest, what did well and what to not grow again, helping you understand what grows best in your environment
  • What To Grow Next Year - plan what you are going to grow next year based on how everything performed this year
  • Seed Planting Schedule - a detailed guide of when to sow, plant out and harvest the vegetables detailed in this book
  • Growing Guides - step-by-step growing guides for over 50 different vegetables and herbs that are commonly grown at home
  • Monthly Gardening Jobs - a detailed, month by month guide of what to sow and harvest in your vegetable and fruit garden plus what to do in your greenhouse and around your allotment
  • Gardening Techniques - learn basic gardening techniques such as crop rotation, companion planting, hardening off and how to prune fruit trees
  • Recipes - discover some of my favourite recipes from the vegetable garden including a guide to making jam and chutney

Plus you get printable copies of everything so you can print them at home and write on them.

This is the ultimate vegetable garden planner, combining proven planning and tracking techniques with valuable information for the new and experienced gardener. With everything in one place, this book will quickly become your go to guide for your allotment or vegetable plot.

Start planning your vegetable garden today and make the most of the growing season. This allotment planner makes planning fun and easy to do, which helps you get the most out of your allotment or vegetable garden.

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How To Use Common Garden Weeds For Food, Health, Beauty And More

"A Gardener's Guide To Weeds" is a guide to weeds commonly found in the garden and on the vegetable plot. This book teaches you about these weeds, how they can benefit your garden and wildlife, plus how they can be used as medicine and in the kitchen.

There are many different types of weed in your garden, many of which have been used for hundreds and even thousands of years as medicine and food. Many of the weeds that we regularly dig up and compost are the ancestors of our current vegetable crops. Some of these, such as fat hen, were regularly eaten up until a couple of hundred years ago.

It is fascinating to find out more about the weeds that grow in our garden and to realize that these 'weeds' are beneficial plants with many uses. Did you know, for example, that the common weed yarrow was used in the World Wars to stem bleeding and as a field dressing?

As you read this book, you will learn about common weeds that grow in your garden. You will find out how they can be used in the kitchen, how they benefit your garden, and how they have been used in the past as medicine.

As you read "A Gardener's Guide To Weeds, you will discover:

  • How common garden weeds can be eaten and used rather than just composted
  • Many beneficial medicinal plants that you dig up and discard
  • Tasty recipes to make at home using weeds from your garden
  • Why many weeds have fallen out of favor in the kitchen
  • Which weeds to cultivate and which to remove from your garden immediately
  • How to make medicinal treatments from a wide variety of herbs
  • Where weeds grow and what they look like

And, of course, much, much more.

This book gives you a surprising insight into common garden weeds and tells you some interesting uses for them. While we all concentrate on growing vegetables, these 'weeds' grow for free and have a wide variety of uses in the kitchen and medicine cabinet.

Find out more today about the weeds that grow in your garden and how you can use them to your benefit!

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Your Guide to a Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Garden

"Environmentally Friendly Gardening" is a guide to how the home gardener can become more environmentally friendly. Whether it is attracting insects, sequestering carbon or reducing your carbon impact, this book will tell you how to be eco-friendly and help the environment.

It is surprising how much of an impact gardens have on the environment, particularly this modern need for sterile environments full of artificial grass, wooden decking or carefully laid out flowers. If you think about how gardens were ten or twenty years ago, there is a singificant difference now that is not so good for insects or wildlife.

This book has been written based on the need for us all to make changes in the way we life so we are living in a more ecologically sound way. Whether this is reducing our use of plastic, using sustainable materials, or planting for insects is entirely up to you, but the more each of us can do, the more chance we have of averting an environmental crisis.

As you read this book, you will learn about all aspects of environmentally friendly gardening from creating an eco-friendly soil to planting for insects and much more. You will understand the environmental impact of a garden and what you can do to garden in a way that causes less pollution and creates a better environment in your garden.

As you read "Environmentally Friendly Gardening", you will discover:

  • What an eco-friendly garden is and why you need one
  • How to plant for insects and save declining populations of vital pollinators
  • Which insects are beneficial and how to attract them into your garden
  • Using companion planting to reduce your need for chemicals
  • Why a healthy soil ecosystem is important and how to make your soil healthy
  • Ways to reduce your carbon footprint, including making your own compost
  • That weeds can be your friends and beneficial in an eco-garden
  • How to make 'reduce, reuse, recycle' your new gardening mantra
  • Methods to reduce your use of plastics in your garden

There is a lot we can all do to make our gardens more environmentally friendly and reduce our negative impact on the environment. This book covers many different subjects and gives you a lot of ideas about what you can do in your garden.

Start gardening in a way that benefits the environment and enjoy a garden thriving with life and beauty. Environmentally friendly gardening doesn't mean a boring garden, but you can create an incredibly interesting, good looking garden that is a pleasure to sit in. Start creating your eco-garden today with "Environmentally Friendly Gardening".

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