ASK: The Most Asked Gardening Questions
This compact book promises to answer the 1000 most-asked questions that can frustrate all gardeners alike.
From the basic: knowing how to identify your soil type, choice of tools, buying plants, seeds versus seedlings; to the thorny problems of dealing with chronic pests and diseases, plants for difficult places, designing and re-designing, addressing garden needs in an eco-friendly way; and the finer details of perfect compost making, pruning and propagation. Read more
Cookie Craft Christmas
Make every Christmas a cookie craft Christmas! Christmas offers just the right combination of cold weather and family togetherness for cookie crafters to elevate their skills to show stopping new heights. With more than 60 new Christmas cookie designs, along with festive New Year’s cookies and lovely Hanukkah treats, Cookie Craft Christmas delivers colourful inspiration to cookie decorators just when they need it most. Each spread features a full-page, close-up photograph of one cookie cutter shape with detailed decorating instructions on the facing page. Some pages feature one gloriously decorated cookie, while others might feature two or three interpretations of the same shape – ornaments in complementary colours, Christmas trees decorated in varying styles or gingerbread men wearing a rainbow of colours and patterns. Hardback 14 x 16cm
Price: 7.99
Cooking Lessons by Daisy Garnett
Published Date: 05/09/2008 Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd Hardback, 224 pages Features more than 100 recipes. This work includes basic techniques such as making breads and cakes, cooking and preparing meat and fish, and making jams and sauces, as well as specific dishes like sea bass cooked in banana leaves, pumpkin risotto and mango sorbet.
Price: 12.99
Gardening Secrets
Published Date: 21/04/2008 Publisher: Anova Books Imprint: National Trust Books Hardback, 128 pages Whether you care for a country garden or a modest town plot, this book offers a variety of seasonal hints and practical tips to help you make the most of your outside space. It includes advice for urban gardeners working with small plots or container planting, larger country gardens that may include lawn space and those looking to grow vegetables.
Price: 5.99
Gardening with Kids
Children find gardening fun and fascinating- watching a bean sprout or a pumpkin grow bigger every day can seem like a miracle, as well as a huge achievement. And gardening can help kids connect to and understand more about nature, the seasons and the food we eat. Gardening with Kids will tell you everything you need to know, from choosing and preparing your site, and growing from seeds, bulbs and cuttings, to choosing plants from the local garden centre. There are 35 amazing projects even toddlers can enjoy growing cress in crazy eggheads or planting colourful annuals, while older kids can create their own salad patch, a hanging basket, a terrarium in a glass jar or an alpine garden. There are also plenty of garden-related crafts to work on indoors. Little hands will enjoy getting to grips with lavender bags and tin-can windchimes. Hardback, 128 pages, 300 colour photographs
Price: 14.99
Go Slow England by Alistair Sawday
Published Date: 06/03/2008 Imprint: Alastair Sawday Publishing Paperback, 283 pages The Slow Food revolution is upon us and this guide celebrates the Slow philosophy of life with a terrific selection of the places, recipes and people who take their time to enjoy life at its most enriching. In this beautiful book, that goes beyond the mere ‘glossy’, you will discover an unusual emphasis on the people who live in Special Slow Places and what they do. You will meet farmers, literary people, wine-makers and the craftsmen- all with rich stories to tell. Go Slow England celebrates fascinating people, fine architecture, history, landscape and real food. A counter-balance to our culture of haste.
Price: 19.99
