Vegetable & Herb Expert by D.G.Hessayon review - Rated 
I have always found the Expert Garden range of books to be my most valuable gardening books - clear, simple and easy to find what you want.
Sadly they have not updated to metric units so I can no longer buy them as presents for budding gardeners, since the modern generation only know metric and there is nothing more discouraging than to use a book you cannot understand. I hope they will rectify this before long so that I can continue using them.
Great help to a novice grower - Rated 
I got this book when I decided to get my allotment, and I found and still do a great help.
Fantastic pictures are illustrated with the information that goes with them.
The book starts at the beginning which helps if you're a complete novice to vegetable growing.
"Getting started" covers digging and preparing your land, what is the best seeds to buy and how to sow them. This section also covers the importance of crop rotation.
Other section covers the growing of vegetables, covers greenhouse growing, border planting and cover pot and windowsill planting.
Looking after vegetables section covers the dreaded weeding. But it also covers feeding, mulching and watering of the plants; also a section is covered on spotting and dealing with pests.
The book has a section about unusual types of vegetables and how to grow them.
There is a good section on vegetable troubles, how to spot and treat before it starts to do damage to other crops.
Tips on how to preserve and ripen your vegetables and of course to eat them.
This is a great book and if you're thinking of growing your own vegetables like I have done this year, this books it a must
Growing into an expert - Rated
Just moved from London with a shady patio to a country acre, with greenhouse and allotment sized veg patch - and not had to buy a vegetable since March. I was worried gardening was one of those things you couldn't do by book-learning, but of the four tomes I picked up, this is the only one I would use. Brilliant, and inspiring confidence straight away - I'm buying the rest of the series!
Herb expert? Not with this book! - Rated 
I would expect a book entitled "the Vegetable and Herb expert "to have more than 2 pages to cover 50% of the topic!
I am disappointed with the titling of this book. Being a foreign based purchaser, it is not as though I can check it out in W H Smiths first, and then choose to buy it at Amazon.
Fantastic! - Rated
Being new to allottment holding, my husband and I bought a number books to help us on our way. It turns out this was the only one we need have bought. Everything is clearly explained, with diagrams showing exactly how to plant everything, expected times between sowing and harvesting, as well as listings of potential problems and how to treat them. The A-Z listings style also makes for fantastic ease of reference. Highly recommended! Buy it!
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