This is a comprehensive handbook for the total novice and the practiced gardener alike, covering all aspects of the subject to ensure you can reap the rewards with your home-grown fruit, vegetables and herbs. Offering invaluable information on soils, fertilizers, tools and pest control, this book also includes a month-by-month calendar to enable gardeners to keep on top of their essential tasks. This all-absorbing hobby offers fantastic benefits, both nutritionally and financially, as well as encouraging the consumption of local produce and inspiring community projects. Kevin Forbes has a wide knowledge of horticulture and the countryside, and has skills in a number of rural hobbies. He puts down his love of gardening and nature to his mother, whose enthusiasm has rubbed off on him.