Author: D.G. Hessayon
By Expert

New starts and old hands reference, 2010-03-03
For a beginner with no idea what to expect, this provides an excellent entry-level guide. For the experienced grower who identifies new behavour or results, this has to be the first place to turn.
Illustrated to the highest standard, written for clarity, this book should be every growers' companion.
For readers who find they need further detail on pests and problems, or who want to know more about 'organic' or 'green' issues there are the essential elements that are expanded in companion books, but for everyone else, this has to be the "growers' bible".

Author: Adams
By Butterworth-Heinemann

User Friendly, 2009-10-30
A really helpful book - especially to the novice like me. It follows the RHS qualification and is a great support to the teaching. The book layout is great the pictures and colours aid your learning and digestion of the information which is at times complex.

Author: Ted Hooper
By Northern Bee Books

guide to bees and honey, 2010-02-05
very good book, good to read, a nice book to start with if you want to know anything about bees . newcomer or old hand i was told by a beekeeper to buy this book and i was not disapionted . very well laid out highly recomended

Author: David Cramp
By Spring Hill

Great for first time beekeepers, 2010-02-03
If you are thinking about keeping bees, this is the book for you. It's easy to read, fun and authoritative without being boring.

Author: Andrew Davies
By Collins & Brown

Would buy again, 2010-03-08
The book arrived in perfect condition and very quickly after ordering. I would definitely buy again from theis seller

Author: Virginia Shirt
By Elliot Right Way Books

The Right Way to Keep Chickens, 2009-10-01
Very informative book, great for a beginner like me. What more can I say?
The Right Way to Keep Chickens

Author: Andy Case
By Broad Leys Publishing Limited

excellent book for "starting with pigs" !, 2009-11-24
This book is a great help when making an informed decision as to whether to begin keeping pigs on a small scale. It has lots of information you will need to think about before your pigs arrive. There is good information on housing and fencing and pointers on what you will need to either make yourself or buy in. The book includes information on various pig breeds, health and breeding. Everything a beginner needs to know, but not too heavy going. Our book never spends long on the book shelf as we keep referring back to it ! Highly recommended.

Author: Alan Campion
By Northern Bee Books

Bees at the bottom of the garden, 2009-10-05
Excellent book for both beginner and old hand, first borrowed this book from our bee keepers library, liked it and so decided to have my own copy.

Author: Maria Thun, Matthias K. Thun
By Floris Books

The original planting-by-the-moon calendar, 2009-12-31
Maria and Matthias Thun's Biodynamic Planting Calendar, translated by Bernard Jarman, chief officer of the UK Biodynamic Agricultural Association (BDAA) is the original planting calendar. It is backed by the Thuns' 50 years of meticulous comparative horticultural tests and thus empirically demonstrates the effects of planting according to this calendar. This year's edition (2010) explains more clearly than previous volumes the importance of the ascending and descending moon, rather than the simpler concept of 'waxing' and 'waning'.

I have used this calendar since 1972 and find it an indispensible part of everyday gardening activity. Its only drawback is that being written for a farm in Germany it lacks some cultural relevance to horticultural traditions in Great Britain.

The Thuns have now published a similar calendar for when to enjoy wine at its best, which apparently is now being used by the big supermarket chains to schedule their wine tasting. The moon calendar has also been positively reviewed in the Daily Telegraph for its wine tasting expertise.

I recommend the calendar highly.

Author: Harry Baker, Royal Horticultural Society
By Mitchell Beazley

Excellent book, 2009-01-24
5 years after buying the book.... I got a small orchard in my garden with 13 trees, fantastic collecting up to 40 kilos of apples per tree!!! One died and I replaced for free as it came with warranty (lack of water in a heat wave I think). Having apples from August to January Feb next year, Christmas dinner with apple pure from my own orchard... Fantastic book, my father in law is a farmer and has a large orchard and can even recommended what to do with his trees pruning here and there some fertilizing and so on ... it is another fantastic book from the RHS very clearly explanation about what to do it, this is the story of a city man becoming an expert in fruit trees thank you Mr Baker. I imaging inside this book there are 3,000 years of fruit trees knowledge.