Eat What You Grow: How to Have an Undemanding Edible Garden That Is Both Beautiful and Productive

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Fowler suggests that it is far less time consuming to garden alongside nature rather than being a chore that includes constant weeding and back-breaking digging.

I love all of her books including her novel and this was a splurge, whilst the paper is gorgeous and the pictures are delightful this is a coffee table book or possibly a seed catalog rather than an actual gardening book. The book sets out the argument for gardening in this way in the introductory pages and then splits into subsequent sections. There are lots of interesting new edibles throughout the book, which may or may not be shown in the photos, but you can't tell, so you haven't a clue what they look like.

She has written seven books including T he Thrifty Gardener, The Edible Garden, The Thrifty Forager, Abundance , Hidden Nature and A Modern Herbal . Through anecdotal advice, you will learn how to raise and nurture your plants; from trees and shrubs to bulbs and climbers, Fowler covers everything from where to plant them, how to feed the soil and when they should be harvested. In Eat What You Grow, Alys Fowler offers expertise on cultivating a rich and biodiverse edible garden that will attract wildlife, including important pollinators, while also providing you with incredibly nourishing and wondrously home-grown crops. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

What I enjoyed most about this book is that it is a galvanising treatise on the possibility of a truly nature- centric edible garden, a celebration of biodiversity as well as deliciousness. She has keen interest in agriculture and food politics and is setting up an urban farm in Birmingham.I was especially intrigued by the Edible Water Garden section, as this is entirely unknown territory for me and I’d love to try my hand at growing edible aquatic plants. It's lacking the introductory detail to give structure, and some of the chapters feel rather cursory. In Eat What You Grow , Alys shows you how to create a rich, biodiverse garden that feeds not only you, but supports a wide range of pollinators, bees and butterflies, as well as other wildlife.

She has contributed to G ardens Illustrated, The Observer Food Monthly, The National Geographic and Country Living . Alys Fowler trained at the Horticultural Society, the New York Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. Her approach, which she describes as a polyculture, hinges upon ‘a good backbone of perennial edibles’ that can be relied on year after year to produce a healthy harvest, alongside a complement of annual plants that you can sow and grow to suit your tastes as well as your capacity.informative and interesting too, i learnt a lot and the idea of polyculture gardens has my brain buzzing.