A YEAR FULL OF VEG: A HARVEST FOR ALL SEASONS
by Sarah Raven, photographs by Jonathan Buckley
Bloomsbury, £27 ISBN 978-1526639349
A comprehensive and inspiring guide to growing your own, by a writer with their hands in both the soil and the kitchen sink.
Reviewer Aaron Bertelsen is a vegetable gardener and author.
Sarah Raven is well known for her love of flowers, eye-popping colour combinations and an abundant cutting garden, but she is also a skilled vegetable gardener and a great cook. In this book she shares the learnings from more than 30 years of growing, as she puts it, ‘for abundance, flavour and ease’.
Her approach is practical – there are pages of useful guidance on essential veggarden skills, from seed sowing to composting. Sections on pest control and disease prevention emphasise natural methods – I look forward to trying her chive remedy for mildewed courgette plants – and the need for good garden hygiene. While we differ on the question of digging – I say yes, Raven says no – we are united in the belief that the best produce starts
