Growing Healthy Vegetables in Spain

Following their hugely successful Your Garden in Spain, this new publication by well-known gardeners and broadcasters, Clodagh and Dick Handscombe, represents another milestone in gardening literature - it's the first book to explain exactly how to home-grow organic vegetables in Spain, whether in a flat, town-house, villa or finca.

Key items include

• Why it makes sense to grow and eat your own vegetables.
• Practical guidelines for growing a diversity of vegetables in different locations.
• Dealing with Spain's widely varying temperatures, poor soils and water shortages.
• Natural, ecological and organic solutions to problems.
• Maximising the use of limited growing areas - from just one square metre.
• Encouraging children to get involved in growing vegetables.
• Tailored English - Spanish vocabulary

Generously illustrated with tables, sketches and photographs, this hands-on book will appeal to those who have never grown vegetables before as well as those with prior experience and its appeal will extend beyond the Spanish border on account of the wealth of useful and novel ideas contained in it.

Its publication is timely as global efforts to encourage increased consumption of vegetables gather pace.