The Sceptical Gardener

The Thinking Person's Guide to Good Gardening

von Ken Thompson

304 Seiten, Hardcover

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How are birds linked to house prices?How can a gardener improve theflavour of their vegetables?Do wildflowers really thrive in poor soil?In this collection of articles from The Telegraph, biologist and gardening columnist Ken Thompson takes a scientific look at some of the greater - and lesser - questions faced by gardeners everywhere in a bid to sort the genuine wisdom from the hokum.What is the ideal temperature for a compost heap? What do bees do that improves strawberries? Why are gardeners in literature always such dummies? This is an expert's gardening miscellany, aimed at making you not necessarily a better gardener, but probably a far more thoughtful one.

• ISBN: 9781848319332
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2015
• Größe: 205 x 134 mm
• Verlag: Amberley Publishing