Introduction; 1. Tools and Back Care; 2. Clearing the Ground; 3. Planning the Garden; 4. Digging; 5. Maintaining Soil Fertility; 6. Preparing Beds and Sowing Seeds; 7. Vegetables One by One; 8. Weeds; 9. Bonfires; 10. Cover Crops and Green Manure; 11. Cooking Vegetables; Appendix I: Maintenance and Modification of Tools; Appendix II: Transplanting from Pots; Appendix III: Useful Knots; Appendix IV: Wildlife Gardening is Bad for Wildlife!; Glossary; References; Recommended Reading; Index.
Robert Milne grew all the vegetables and most of the fruit for his family of two, then three, and for ten years, four people. Robert explored the most efficient way of doing everything, modifying some tools and developing some new techniques. In 2003, frustrated by the lack of information about soil in gardening books, Robert took a degree in soil science at the University of Reading. Robert has also worked with vegetable growers in Norway, Scotland and Iceland. In 2002-3, he worked with children in primary schools making and managing quite large vegetable gardens.
'When he lived in Herefordshire, Robert Milne was the most rigorous organic gardener I had ever met. Twenty years of self-sufficiency as well as eight years working as a professional gardener underpin his book Organic Vegetable Growing...The book will tell you everything you ever need to know about Maintaining Soil Fertility.' Anna Pavord, The Independent, 24/7/10. 'Organic Vegetable Growing is a hands-on guide to feeding the family from your own garden.' Jump Magazine.
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