Reviews
Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month by Huw Richards
shirley_sketches's review
5.0
As a soon to be beginner gardener, this book is a great resource, even though I'm not in the UK. It is simply and well explained enough that I am confident it will be easy to adapt to the hotter climate of Portugal. A great amount of tips and tricks, as well as some plans to get you started towards vegetable paradise.
Can't wait to get my hands in the soil!
Can't wait to get my hands in the soil!
opalthefruit's review
i wish it had even a single fruit option for growing in amongst the veg and i think huw wildly over estimates the amount of ppl who have room for a 3 metre wide raised bed in their garden but this has been really helpful to me and given me tons of ideas about how to use the space i have. the colour coded diagrams of the bed were also v useful well done etc
tuftymctavish's review
4.0
Fair enjoyed reading this, although there's not really a huge amount to it and it does feature a bit of repetition. A neat structure I'd like to follow, with alternative options as well. I might try several. I keep referring back to this in fact.
charley0796's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
slow-paced
4.25
I was a complete novice to gardening and it was my year with a garden to grow food. This was the perfect book for me! I had one raised bed which was a lot smaller than the guides but I managed to adapt it some what.
This year I managed to grow salad, tomatoes, potatoes, Swiss chard, fresh beans, green beans, radishes, microgreens, strawberries, leeks, broad beans, blueberries, apples and raspberries with this book being my main guide! There were many successes and failures (my kale did not survive the caterpillar attack!) which I attribute mostly to not following the recommended raised bed size and ignoring advice to get netting set up. My advice - follow Huw’s recommendations and don’t cop out! He’s got handy guides as well for easier versions of his growing plan which is really helpful for busy people. I really recommend this book for beginner gardening, in compact spaces.
4.25 as I felt it would be helpful to see pictures of harvest ready plants to help me know when they’re ready to harvest, rather than just pictures of after they’re harvested. It would also have been helpful to see pictures of the netting he described. Also, I know it’s a veg book, but I would have loved to see some fruit in there - especially as the controversial tomatoes made the cut!
Finally, Huw often forgot to mention how many seeds of each veg you should sow or how many plants you should plant out. This led to a lot of guess work and I’m not sure I got it right! So if you like detail, you might need to look elsewhere
This year I managed to grow salad, tomatoes, potatoes, Swiss chard, fresh beans, green beans, radishes, microgreens, strawberries, leeks, broad beans, blueberries, apples and raspberries with this book being my main guide! There were many successes and failures (my kale did not survive the caterpillar attack!) which I attribute mostly to not following the recommended raised bed size and ignoring advice to get netting set up. My advice - follow Huw’s recommendations and don’t cop out! He’s got handy guides as well for easier versions of his growing plan which is really helpful for busy people. I really recommend this book for beginner gardening, in compact spaces.
4.25 as I felt it would be helpful to see pictures of harvest ready plants to help me know when they’re ready to harvest, rather than just pictures of after they’re harvested. It would also have been helpful to see pictures of the netting he described. Also, I know it’s a veg book, but I would have loved to see some fruit in there - especially as the controversial tomatoes made the cut!
Finally, Huw often forgot to mention how many seeds of each veg you should sow or how many plants you should plant out. This led to a lot of guess work and I’m not sure I got it right! So if you like detail, you might need to look elsewhere