This Chelsea Green-published book, subtitled 'Enrich your soil, manage pests and diseases and boost biodiversity without toxic chemicals and synthetic fertilisers meets the market for organic, no dig, wildlife-friendly gardening that is now prevalent, given climate change.
Growing your own with the knowledge of how your veg is produced and the inputs used (or not used) is increasingly important for many people.
The book was previously published as The Healthy Vegetable Garden. The new title uses the resilient buzz word. Looking after the soil is the start: no dig, cover crops, mulching. Then what to grow: polyculture, for pollinators, plant combinations and for natural predators.
Author Sally Morgan edits the Soil Association Organic Farming magazine and has an organic farm in Somerset, so has a strong writing and growing pedigree. In this handbook, she offers sensible and practical advice about how to grow your own in a better way for you and the planet.
That areas such as agroecology and the phyllosphere are now accepted as part of the discourse of gardening and allotmenteering shows how far mainstream GYO has come in recent years.
