Advice on gardening in harmony with nature

An essential book for all gardeners who want to give a bit more thought into the way they garden. Plus how to make the perfect compost. A thoughtful and practical book on how to garden in harmony with nature. A leading National Trust gardener reveals the techniques that work at in grand gardens are just as applicable for all gardeners, whether you have a small yard, a veg patch or several acres.

His advice covers:

• How to make a plant healthy from organic spraying with milk, introducing friendly fungi to good nutrition for your plants.
• Making perfect compost, including hot composting techniques, the ultimate leaf mould, bracken compost and potash, and composting food waste.
• Surviving droughts and downpours with low-watering regimes, increasing drought resistance in plants, choosing the right plant for your conditions, and keeping plants healthy in water-logged soil.
• Making your glasshouse green with water-collection systems, using beneficial insects to control pests, alternatives to pesticides and fungicides, sterilising without bleach, peat-free composts and alternatives to plastic.
• Gardening by the moon with simple and scientific experiments in biodynamic gardening.