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Going Organic: The Good Gardener's Guide to Getting It Right
by Flowerdew, Bob
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 1856267148
- ISBN 13
- 9781856267144
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Kyle Cathie Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, yellow title to spine and face. No bumps, minor rubs & some light marks, no other visible faults. VG* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper in clear protective wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £19.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: Ex-Library with the usual labels but showing no stamps. Dark green coloured end-papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with light reading wear, no marks to text, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: Colour photos to most pages throughout.* Pages: 221 pp. text. iv pp. bibliography, index, picture acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: In Bob's common-sense style, 'Going Organic' proves to be an approachable, practical and pleasurable read. With his vast experience as an organic gardener, he takes you through essential gardening skills, the common pitfalls, cultural, pest and disease problems (identifying each one and how you can combat it), and how to help your garden to fix itself with natural solutions like bird boxes and companion gardening. He also reassures you that you don't have to be totally organic or break your back or bank balance - the common problems are identified and outmanoeuvred by wit and cunning and simple safe remedies rather than reaching for a bottle of poison. This book contains all the knowledge and tips you need to solve most garden problems while becoming a more competent gardener, more naturally.* A NEAR FINE ex-library copy of the 1st./1st. FNL with library labels and some wear reducing it to VG in clear protective wrapper.*
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- Seller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 5260
- Title
- Going Organic: The Good Gardener's Guide to Getting It Right
- Author
- Flowerdew, Bob
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 1856267148
- ISBN 13
- 9781856267144
- Publisher
- Kyle Cathie
- Place of Publication
- Lonodon UK 224
- Date Published
- 2007-01-01
- Size
- 23 x 2.8 x 27 cm
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