Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening: Bumper Crops in Minutes a Day Using Raised Beds, Planning, and Plant Selection

Spend less time in the garden—and get more results!
• Simple short cuts and unusual low-maintenance strategies
• Design advice, construction ideas, and planning tips
• Choosing crops and a helpful look at a selection of low-maintenance vegetables and berries
• Step-by-step sequences for creating a deep-layer mulch bed, making rope supports, growing individual crops, and more
• Compost, mulch, sowing, feeding, weeding, dealing with pests, and other necessary tasks made easy
• 200 photos from the author's own weekend vegetable garden offer both instruction and inspiration

This is the indispensable guide for anyone with limited time who still wants to achieve high yields from their vegetable plot!

Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening demystifies the growing of fruit and vegetables and shows that, with the right approach, it can be done successfully as a weekend project or slotted into a busy week. Whether you have a small space set aside for vegetable crops or you're starting your backyard homestead, this gardening guide will help you do more in less time!

Experienced garden designer Clare Matthews explains simple short cuts and practical low maintenance strategies that really work! Her book is filled with inspirational color photography from her own weekend vegetable garden where the principles promoted in this book have been tried, tested, and proven.

This handy gardening guide will appeal to the complete novice planning a new vegetable garden as well as the more experienced gardener who is looking to save time and increase productivity. Filled with fantastic images and sound horticultural advice, it is an essential handbook for anyone with limited time who still wants to have a productive garden.

Inside Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening, you'll find a no-nonsense guide to growing the vegetables you love to eat—the easy way! Explore time-saving techniques, simple shortcuts, and effective low-maintenance strategies. Packed with practical advice—from planning what to grow and companion planting to dealing with pests and diseases and no-dig gardening—plus 200 gorgeous color photos from the author's own weekend vegetable garden, shot by renowned garden photographer Clive Nichols, this is essential reading for the time-poor gardener.

Achieve maximum yields from your vegetable plot with minimum effort, with Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening!