Best How To Plant A Raspberry
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Introducing the “Best How To Plant A Raspberry” guide, your ultimate companion to successfully grow and harvest delicious raspberries in your very own garden. Packed with expert tips, step-by-step instructions, and invaluable gardening know-how, this comprehensive guide is a must-have for beginners and experienced gardeners alike.
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Put the fun into gardening with this great family guide to growing plants indoors and out, all year round.
How do plants work? How can I grow tomatoes? How can I encourage garden wildlife? RHS Get Growing will answer all these questions in a fun and accessible guide.
Perfect for parents and children who enjoy engaging with the outdoors and want to do more activities together, or for beginner gardeners just starting out, this book explains how plants work, describes the building blocks of gardening, and shows how to grow everything from cacti to cucumbers.
With great facts and practical projects, giving the reader a lot of information, it’s an ideal, hands-on introduction for complete beginners, and designed to inspire a life-long love of gardening.
In this book, you will learn to:
Learn about the plants and animals that make up the ecosystem of any garden
Plant seeds together with your children and watch as they grow
Carry out experiments – from making a wormery to mapping rain shadows
Make delicious recipes from your home-grown produce
The projects and experiments are bite-sized and self-contained, ideal for weekends, holidays and even home-schooling.
This book is ideal for parents and teachers who want to get kids connected with nature, experiencing the world and relating to the food that they eat. All the guidance is backed by scientific and educational research, drawn together by the team of RHS experts.
Get your children growing shoots and seeds, whatever their ages, and watch them fall in love with the natural world with RHS Get Growing, the complete family gardening guide.
From the Publisher
RHS Get Growing: A Family Guide to Gardening Inside and Out
How to use this book
The best thing about gardening is that it takes very little investment in time or money to get started – and it doesn’t even need a garden! The basic, fundamental act of growing plants is something that can be done anywhere and on any scale; from a collection of pots on a windowsill to full-scale allotments and community gardening, any and all opportunities for your family to get growing are covered in this book.
The first chapters cover the basics of gardening; principles that apply to all types of plants such as watering, sowing seeds and planting trees. The following chapters then go into more specific details and give some inspiration about what to grow, from fruit and veggies to herbs and flowers for cutting and wildlife. Refer to both for all the information you’ll need to start growing.
Throughout all the chapters are experiments and projects that help to bring the ideas alive – from turning a white flower red (not magic, but science!) to growing a willow den and making your own fruit squash – and the final chapter has some ideas for garden activities for the different seasons as well as seasonal gardening tasks.
WHERE CAN YOU GROW?
It really is possible to grow plants anywhere, and not having a garden needn’t mean not being able to grow. It’s always best to get growing gradually, anyway: start with a couple of plants on a windowsill and add to and expand the garden over time, rather than rushing into a big project that then becomes overwhelming. Gardening is all about patience, and enjoying the process of growing and nurturing as well as the fruits of your labours.
This chapter details all the places you could start, and grow, your garden, from a windowsill to an allotment, from containers to beds and borders. There are pages on how to assess your space’s growing potential, with some experiments to find out what kind of soil you have, and how much sunshine and rain the garden gets. Plants will grow anywhere, it’s just a case of choosing the right plants for the right places.
HOW DO PLANTS WORK?
From single-celled algae to giant redwood trees, plants come in all shapes and sizes, but most share the same basic characteristics. Plants are the basis of all life on earth – they are our food, our paper, books and school desks; we use them to make the clothes on our backs and the roofs over our heads, and they enable the whole world to breathe. Even though they are at the bottom of every food chain, plants deserve our respect, and key to this respect is understanding them. This chapter gives a basic introduction to plants and their role on earth, with some easy experiments to show how they work.
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF GARDENING
No matter what kind of garden you want to grow – large or small, jungle or herb garden – the basics are all the same. This chapter will tell you how to go about buying plants, sowing seeds and planting, and how to look after your garden once you’ve created it.
GET GROWING… VEG
Growing your own vegetables is a great way to learn about where our food comes from, what it takes to produce it and how tasty vegetables can be. In this chapter, you will find out about fun vegetables to grow for garden snacking such as peas and cherry tomatoes, art projects to do with salad leaves and pumpkins, corn on the cob and more.
Vegetables prefer a sunny, sheltered position with good, rich soil, and with planning, a lot can be grown in a small space. Refer to the general advice on seed-sowing and plant maintenance in The Building Blocks of Gardening (pp44–65), along with the specific details for each vegetable in this chapter.
GET GROWING… FRUIT
Having a home-grown supply of fruit, especially soft fruit such as raspberries and blueberries, is a real luxury in summer and autumn. Eat it while playing or reading in the garden, or use it to cook up delicious treats (strawberry ice cream or apple pie, perhaps).
Unlike vegetables, which are mostly annual plants sown from seed every year, fruit grows on trees, bushes or perennial plants, so although it is more of an investment in the first year, the plants will continue to produce harvests for many years to come. In fact, the cost of a currant bush equates to only a few punnets of the fruit, so it is worthwhile growing your own. See p54 for general guidance on planting and the following pages in this chapter for more specific information about growing each fruit.
GET GROWING… HERBS
This chapter details a few of the most commonly available herbs and some projects to make the most of them, such as home-made pesto, flower crowns and a smelly seat, ideal for a garden reading spot. However, these are just the tip of the iceberg, and there are literally thousands more herbs that can be grown: you might like to choose more plants with which to make fresh herbal drinks, or those that are best for adding to posies of cut flowers, or those that are ideal for using in baking, for example. Use the final section in this chapter to design your own herb garden – small or large – using all your favourite and most useful herbs.
GET GROWING… FLOWERS AND WILDLIFE GARDENS
Although gardens can provide harvests of fruit, vegetables and herbs, they can also be enjoyed just for themselves. Grow plants simply for the joy of growing them, for nurturing them from a seed all the way to flowering. Grow flowers for a riot of colour or for a calming pastel or white haven away from the hustle and bustle of the busy streets. Flowers and leaves are full of fascinating detail – ideal for sketching, painting or printing with – and also provide homes for a huge variety of wildlife.
This chapter shows how to grow different types of plants to fill the garden, what to grow for a few posies of home-grown cut flowers, and some ideas of how best to garden with wildlife in mind. Finally, why not create a living sculpture out of willow or a tiny pond?
GET GROWING… HOUSEPLANTS
Although social media can give the impression that houseplants have only been around for the last few years, the desire to be surrounded by greenery is as old as mankind itself. Houseplants can bring life to a room, introduce fresh ingredients to a kitchen windowsill and inspire curiosity about the weird and wonderful world of plants. They can make us more relaxed and also make our air cleaner by filtering out the pollutants and toxins.
Houseplants can be part of the décor, or they can be part of the family, passed down the generations and nurtured as we would a pet. There is a houseplant for every part of the house – be it sunny or shady, hot or cold – so why not try growing one or two?
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR GARDEN IN…
Your garden can be a source of entertainment, relaxation, learning and inspiration all year round. It also needs some attention throughout the year, whether it be weeding or watering. Looking after a garden is half the fun of having one, and 20 minutes’ care here and there can be all it needs to thrive.
Getting out into the garden every day is a great way to appreciate the changing seasons – to watch flowers come and go, leaves flourish in spring and fall in autumn, the sparkle of morning dew on the grass or frost on bare branches, these are all reminders of the wonders of plants and nature. The following notes are a guide to the main tasks for each season and ideas for garden activities and projects. For more detailed information on the seasonal care of particular plants, see the RHS website.
ASIN : B0874BNKZK
Publisher : Frances Lincoln; New edition (April 7, 2020)
Publication date : April 7, 2020
Language : English
File size : 34041 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 176 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 071125107X
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