Books
Vegetable Growing, Allotmenting, Preserving & Storing, Jams & Keeping Poultry / Chickens!
As you probably gathered from the site, we’ve been living a frugal life and growing vegetables for over 40 years. In our books we simply share our experience and knowledge.
Take control of your life, grow your own food and preserve it.
The first book, Vegetable Growing Month by Month, has become one of the most popular gardening books in the UK because it gives straightforward advice for growing vegetables. Whether you are growing on a patio in containers or an allotment plot, there’s help in here.
You can buy copies direct from us or you can buy from online bookstores like Amazon. The books are also available from all good bookstores and now in many garden centres as well.
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VE Day 2025 Special
£7.99Read moreTo honour VE Day 2025 we’ve put together a special offer that includes our Dig for Victory: Growing Guides paperback book plus Storing the Harvest eBook, Rationed Christmas eBook and Replica Wartime Leaflets.
£7.99 including UK delivery. Only available until 15th May 2025
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Vegetable Growing Month by Month
£9.99Add to cartBest selling guide to growing your own. Monthly task lists and general help and tips. Straightforward, down to earth advice for all
FREE eBook & Free UK Delivery
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The Essential Allotment Guide
£10.99Add to cartThe Essential Allotment Guide is aimed at those with an allotment, looking for an allotment or growing on a larger plot. Get the most from your allotment. How to find and choose a plot, what to grow and where.
Free UK Delivery and with two eBooks!
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Dig For Victory Monthly Guides
£16.99Add to cartThe Wartime Growing Guides in One Paperback Volume
By following these guides, even a complete novice can put fresh wholesome food on the family’s table all year round. The campaign may not have been as dramatic as the Battle of Britain but was just as vital to the eventual victory.
£16.99 PLUS two FREE eBooks & Wartime Leaflets
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Vegetable Fruit & Herb Growing in Small Spaces
£10.99Read moreA straightforward guide to growing your own in containers, pots, small gardens etc. Planning and cultivation for maximum yields.
£10.99 – Free UK Delivery
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Low Cost Living – Live Better Spend Less
£8.99Add to cartLive Better but Spend Less A practical guide to greener living through being frugal. Enjoy a better lifestyle by saving expense.
£8.99 – Free UK Delivery
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Easy Jams, Chutneys and Preserves
£10.99Add to cartThe bestselling guide to making jams and chutneys etc. Packed with tested, proven recipes, tips, help and interesting facts.
£10.99 – Free UK Delivery
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How to Store Your Home Grown Produce
£9.99Add to cartA practical guide for those growing their own vegetables and fruit on how to safely store the surplus and avoid waste
£9.99 – Free UK Delivery
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Backgarden Chickens & Other Poultry
£10.99Add to cartFor those thinking of keeping or currently keeping chickens or other poultry such as ducks, quail, turkeys or geese in a back garden
£10.99 – Free UK Delivery
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Tomatoes – An Essential Guide to Growing Tomatoes eBook
£4.50Add to cartTomatoes – An Essential Guide to Growing Tomatoes eBook will help you make the most of your tomato seeds and grow the best crop possible year-on-year.
eBook only £4.50
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Crop Rotation – Three, Four, and Five Year Planning eBook
£2.75Add to cartThis guide is aimed to help you create your own crop rotation based on what you want to grow. It includes three, four, and five year plans; plus detailed plant family and group lists to aid you in your planning.
This is a digital product. Only £2.75
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Seeds: A Guide to Germination and Storage
£2.75Add to cartSeeds: A Guide to Germination and Storage will help you get the most out of your seeds – meaning better crops and saving you money too.
This is a digital product.
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Potatoes – A Guide to Growing, Harvesting, and Storing Potatoes eBook
£3.75Add to cartPotatoes – A Guide to Growing, Harvesting, and Storing Potatoes is the first in a series of more in depth guides on growing your own, storing the harvest, and cooking up the fruits of your labour.
This is a digital product.
eBook Only £3.75
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Sale!
Storing the Harvest eBook
Original price was: £4.75.£2.25Current price is: £2.25.Add to cartStoring the Harvest – a helping-hand through the Summer months; guiding you on how best to store each fruit and vegetable as the inevitable gluts arrive.
This is a digital product.
eBook only – Special Offer – only £2.25 until 30/06/2025
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Rationed Christmas eBook
£2.75Add to cartRationed Christmas – it is possible to eat very well indeed on little money using these frugal war-time ration recipes. With commentary by John Harrison.
This is a digital product.
eBook only £2.75
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Allotment Garden Growing Though the Seasons – Winter Guide
£4.75Add to cartThe Allotment Garden Growing Through the Seasons – Winter Guide is your helping hand on the plot through the darkest of Seasons.
This is a digital product.
eBook £4.75
