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In recent years allotments have grown in popularity with demand far outstripping supply. John Harrison shows how to improve your chances of getting an allotment and move up the waiting list. In this all-encompassing guide, he also advises on clearing an allotment, planning what to grow and how, building compost bins, using raised beds - plus detailed instructions on growing the best vegetables and fruit. Praise for John Harrison's Vegetable Growing Month by Month: "...solid words of advice, written in a way that everyone will understand." Medwyn Williams, Chairman of the National Vegetable Society and member of the Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society.

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The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Essential Tips for Great Allotments: Flash is a short, simple and to-the-point guide that will teach you all the fundamentals for your allotment, from what tools to use to which crops to grow in just 96 pages. For those new to allotments, this is an ideal starting point for growing your own produce organically.

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The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" is the first in a series of books teaching you everything you need to know to get started growing fruit and vegetables. Whether you have an allotment, a smallholding or a vegetable garden at home, you will learn how to start growing in the ground and in containers.

This step-by-step guide starts from first principles, teaching you everything from how to choose an allotment to clearing weeds, coping with the weather and how to set your vegetable garden up. You learn exactly what to look for when choosing an allotment plus how to apply and how allotment sites work, which is useful for new allotment owners. Even if you are growing at home, there is plenty of information to help you get started growing.

Whether you are brand new to growing your own or whether you have dabbled, this book teaches you everything about owning and running an allotment. Written by a long term allotment owner, the information is first hand and gives you a real world view of having an allotment, packed full of valuable information to help you make the most of your allotment.

The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" goes into detail about how to work an allotment and grow fruit and vegetables. As you read this book, you will discover:

• How to compost, including what you can and cannot compost
• The common pests you will encounter and how to deal with them
• The various problems you may encounter and how to overcome them
• How to grow from seeds plus what F1 and heirloom seeds are
• When to feed your plants and what fertilisers to use, including how to make your own
• What companion planting is and how it benefits you and your plants
• Why you must rotate crops on your allotment and how to do it
• How to run an allotment with children so they can enjoy it too
• Different gardening techniques so you know how to look after your vegetable garden
• Ways to maximise productivity from your allotment while minimising the amount of work you have to do

As well as this, you get a comprehensive guide to sowing seeds showing you when to sow different types of vegetable seed, when to plant outside and when to harvest crops. You also get a month by month guide telling you what jobs to do at an allotment, including:

• Vegetable garden jobs
• Fruit garden jobs
• What to harvest
• What to sow
• Greenhouse jobs

If you are new to growing vegetables, this is the book for you. Whether you are growing at home or growing at an allotment, this book is full of useful information helping you get started and grow successfully.

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More popular now than ever, the allotment is part of the fabric of British life. This is the ideal story of this phenomenon by the subject’s leading historian.

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Written by the Royal Horticultural Society's foremost fruit and veg experts, RHS Allotment Handbook & Planner provides the lifestyle-changing advice that gardeners need for growing a year-round supply of healthy, edible crops for their garden. With RHS tried-and-tested varieties, this book covers what to grow, how and where to grow it. Exploring best practice growing advice, allotment life and its numerous benefits, this book also includes a month-by-month calendar of tasks to guide gardeners through the year.

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". . . The best tax guide of the bunch . . ." -USA Today ". . . Hard to Beat . . ." -Money magazine The Ernst & Young Tax Guide 2004 is the most current, authoritative, and bestselling tax guide on the market. Here is the only guide that provides complete coverage of the new tax law provisions and includes essential forms for the upcoming tax season, plus the IRS's official filing instructions for these forms. Make the most of the new tax law by learning how to save on your taxes with one of America's leading tax and accounting firms, Ernst & Young LLP. SPECIAL FEATURES IN THIS YEAR'S EDITION: * How to make sense of the the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 * IRS Publication 17, "Your Federal Income Tax" * How to determine retirement plan contributions under the new rules * Using Coverdell ESAs and Qualified Tuition (Section 529) Programs * 50 Most Commonly Overlooked Deductions * How the continued phase-in of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 will affect your taxes today and in the years to come PLUS the always popular features: TAXSAVERS-tips to slash your taxes this year and next TAXPLANNERS-strategies to help you prepare for the upcoming year TAXALERTS-pointers on the new tax law changes that may affect you TAXORGANIZERS-reminders that help you keep track of your important tax records Over 450 of them at your fingertips!

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