John Yeoman made a little silly schoolboy error and bought a home that he imagined he would be able to grow plants and develop his idea of a Village Guild of like-minded people who want to grow organic food, without all the fuss and palaver that gardening programs on the telly want to turn it into. The soil in his new home was atrocious and fit only for weed growth.
The lazy vegetable grower, a funny account of his development of the "Yeopod" concept, is the result. Sadly out of print, and the village guild now defunct, You can still get an idea of how it works from this link to his new site "The gardening guild" The book contains very good information though.
http://www.gardeningguild.org/m-yeopod-basics2.php
A genuinely funny chap. You can get a flavour of what he's about from various posts of his on this website,
http://www.kitchengarden.co.uk/forum/vi ... f=8&t=6809 where he describes, in small detail, how the system of Yeopods work, and this information is in the public domain and FREE! The book is out of print and expensive if you find a copy. ISBN0-9542006-1-6
On a more serious note, another book from our collection, and very comprehensive in detail, is "The Macdonald Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants" 447 pages of usefull information regarding various plants and how to use them. It's got great pictures of the herbs for identification purposes, and describes where to find the plants and how to prepare them. A very good technical book.
ISBN 0-356-10542-3 over 30 years old now, but one of the best books about this subject I've ever seen. Get a copy if you can find one at the right price.
The Lazy Vegetable Grower
The Lazy Vegetable Grower
What is this life, so full of care, we have no time to prepare.
(Apologies to W H Davies)
(Apologies to W H Davies)