'Excellent book.'Nigella Lawson'Charming,inspiring,uplifting... pure lovely.'Marian Keyes'Read Rhapsody in Green. A novelist's beautiful,useful essays about her tiny garden.'India Knight'Glorious...for anyone who loves fruit,vegetables,herbs and language. It makes you see them with new eyes.'Diana Henry'A witty account of'extreme allotmenteering'for all obsessive gardeners'Mail on Sunday'Anextremely entertaining and inspiring story of one woman's passionatetransformation of a small,irregular shaped urban garden into abountiful source of food.'Woman & Home'A gardening booklike no other,this is the author's'love letter'to her garden. Sherelays warm and witty stories about the trials and tribulationsthroughout her gardening year.'Garden News'...thisinspirational,funny book,written by someone who hankers after ahomesteader's lifestyle,will make you look at even your window box in anew,more productive light.'The Simple Things'Gardening is not a hobby but a passion: a mess of excitement and compulsion and urgency and desire. Those who practise it are botanists,evangelists,freedom fighters,midwives and saboteurs; we kill; we bleed. No,I can't drop everything to come in for dinner; it's a matter of life and death out here.'Novelist Charlotte Mendelson has a secret life. Despite owning only six square metres of urban soil and a few pots,she is an extreme gardener; the creator of a tiny but bountiful edible jungle. And like all enthusiasts,she will not rest until you share her obsession.This is the story of an amateur gardener's journey to addiction: her attempts to buy lion dung from London Zoo and to build her own cold frame; her disinhibited composting and creative approach to design; her prejudices (roses,purple flowers,people with orchards); and her passions: quinces,salad-leaves,herbs,Japanese greens and ancient British apples. It is a story of where fantasy meets reality,of the slow onset of a consuming love and,most of all,of how gardening,however peculiar,can save your life.
Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupISBN: 9780857839473Number of pages: 240Weight: 215 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 22 mm
Charlotte Mendelson
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