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The Upstart Gardener. A Rubbish Dump, An Ignoramus, A Gardening Sage and the Working of a Miracle

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The London Bookworm
(East Sussex, Regno Unito)

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Descrizione libro Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Wendy J. Norwood (illustratore). 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Previous owners name and dated (1995) to inside cover. No date. When writer and broadcaster David Arscott took over a plot of wasteland in Sussex he looked for an experienced gardners to help him develop it. And in Bert Winborne he found not only a champion grower but a man steeped in the traditions of the old country houses where he'd worked, man and boy, from the early twenties. Their association led first to a popular, long-running BBC radio series and now to The Upstart Gardenr, which combines all the distinctive features of this collaboration between the seasoned veteran and the willing learner. Tales of the old days at the big houses, when her ladyship demanded violets every day of the year; when the wily head gardener buttered up the fearsome cook; and the best fertiliser came from the cesspit. Countless 'wrinkles' on sowing, planting and growing; on tools ancient and modern; and on the influence of the moon. And an unforlding drama as our intrepid pair enter the local horticultural show and strive to grow winning specimens on ground choked with bindweed, horseshoes, spark plugs and old false teen. This book will delight both the accomplished husbandman and the complacent armchair enthusiast happy to agree, with Bert, that 'where nettles grow, anything will grow. Illustrations. 116 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Codice articolo 084512

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