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Kitchen Garden Techniques presents every skill needed to grow fresh, tasty, healthy organic food: from soil preparation to crop preservation, selecting to saving seed, digging to drying.

Following on from the hugely successful Polytunnel Book, Joyce and Ben Russell have devised 30 kitchen garden projects that will transform your vegetable plot into somewhere more productive, more attractive and more secure.

Whether you are a complete beginner gardener, or a more experienced grower, this comprehensive, practical month-to-month growing guide to polytunnel gardening has got what you need, telling you exactly what to do and when to do it, in order to grow the best fruit and vegetables all-year-round. From preparing the site to making a hotbed, from composts and organic feeds to identifying and coping with pests, plus information on how to get the best from each crop and month-to-month planting plans for year-round growing, this guide provides a wealth of practical tips and techniques as well as celebrating what can be achieved. Illustrated with 300 stunning colour photographs, this practical guide to polytunnels hand guides you through each month of the year, ensuring the best results all year round.