Customer Reviews
Exactly what I would want for Christmas - By: emma who reads a lot, 19 Nov 2008 
I am a second-year allotment holder only just getting down to really understanding what I have taken on, & I love this little book. Firstly, it's a journal with blank pages for you to record everything you do, with a page per week. I am hoping it will last at least five years as I only write a few sentences per week, & that will enable me to compare across the years how well/badly I did, what jobs I was doing at what time, etc.
However it also gives a clear summary of "jobs for the month", & it has seasonal recipes from Carol's collection, & it's also really full of useful info (e.g. pages on "chitting potatoes" & "blanching vegetables" ) which will be a shortcut reminder of all the careful advice containedin the big Grow Your Own book.
However DO note that this isn't that book - I think perhaps the first reviewer on here got confused & that's why his wife was disappointed. This is a much smaller book that you could take with you to the allotment to note down where you planted your onions etc, to fold seed packets & planting plans into (it has a useful orange elastic to keep all that stuffin there too - & a wipeable cover, for muddy fingers...).
Honestly if I got this for Christmas I would be soooo pleased, & it's nice & cheap too!
Wife Dissapointed - By: Mr. Peter Austen, 31 Oct 2008 
I ordered this book for my wife.
On impulse I also ordered the Amazon recommended book:
Vegetable Growing Month-By-Month; - John Harrison.
My wife tells me that this book is far more helpful.
