A down-to-earth guide to growing your own food by journalist and keen allotmenteer, Jane Perrone. Packed with invaluable advice - from how to choose and allotment and test its soil, to knowing your chickweed from your chicory.

Simple Steps to Success Series

Dorling Kindersley/RHS - £6.99 each

There are eight titles in the series with titles like Easy Pruning, Planting a Small Garden and Containers for Patios. The Simple Steps series provides novices with clearly illustrated, step-by-step guides.

Websites

Thrive - www.thrive.org.uk

Thrive is a national charity that uses gardening to change the lives of disabled people, by rebuilding strength after an accident or an illness, or providing a purposeful activity which helps people to cope with a difficult period in their life. The charity also aids older people to continue to enjoy their gardens.

The National Gardens Scheme - www.ngs.org.uk

The NGS opens beautiful gardens to the public in order to raise money for charity. Search their online database of gardens to find details of stunning gardens all over England, Scotland and Wales.

Oxfam unwrapped: Plant an allotment - www.oxfamunwrapped.com

Oxfam's innovative charity gift website offers you the opportunity to give a less-fortunate family an allotment.

This article was created: 5 February 2007.
This article was last edited: 1 March 2007.

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