LA813 - Allotment Pocket Bible
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Community gardens are gaining popularity across North America and in the UK (where they are called allotments), but have you ever wondered how they get established? This complete guide provides advice on how to both garner public support for your community-building endeavor and create a productive space everyone can enjoy.
Here Cooper provides valuable advice on finding the right lot and getting legal access to it, engage the surrounding neighborhood and gardening members, and create competitions to keep interest in the venture alive. It also gives practical information you’ll need to assess the area, clear it out, section it off into plots and set it up for success, featuring tips on the best plants to select, extending the growth season, building compost bins, when to sow and harvest, pest management and more.
Hardcover, 192 pages, 2022.
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Allotment Pocket Bible
Community gardens are gaining popularity across North America and in the UK (where they are called allotments), but have you ever wondered how they get established? This complete guide provides advice on how to both garner public support for your community-building endeavor and create a productive space everyone can enjoy.
Here Cooper provides valuable advice on finding the right lot and getting legal access to it, engage the surrounding neighborhood and gardening members, and create competitions to keep interest in the venture alive. It also gives practical information you’ll need to assess the area, clear it out, section it off into plots and set it up for success, featuring tips on the best plants to select, extending the growth season, building compost bins, when to sow and harvest, pest management and more.
Hardcover, 192 pages, 2022.
