Spend less time in the garden—and get more results! Simple short cuts and unusual low-maintenance strategies - Design advice , construction ideas, and planning tips - Choosing crops and a helpful look at a selection of low-maintenance vegetables and berries - Step-by-step sequences for creating a deep-layer mulch bed, making rope supports, growing individual crops, and more - Compost , mulch, sowing, feeding, weeding, dealing with pests, and other necessary tasks made easy - 200 photos from the author's own weekend vegetable garden offer both instruction and inspiration This is the indispensable guide for anyone with limited time who still wants to achieve high yields from their vegetable plot! Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening demystifies the growing of fruit and vegetables and shows that, with the right approach, it can be done successfully as a weekend project or slotted into a busy week. Whether you have a small space set aside for vegetable crops or you're starting your backyard homestead, this gardening guide will help you do more in less time! Experienced garden designer Clare Matthews explains simple short cuts and practical low maintenance strategies that really work! Her book is filled with inspirational color photography from her own weekend vegetable garden where the principles promoted in this book have been tried, tested, and proven. This handy gardening guide will appeal to the complete novice planning a new vegetable garden as well as the more experienced gardener who is looking to save time and increase productivity. Filled with fantastic images and sound horticultural advice, it is an essential handbook for anyone with limited time who still wants to have a productive garden. Inside Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening , you'll find a no-nonsense guide to growing the vegetables you love to eat—the easy way! Explore time-saving techniques, simple shortcuts, and effective low-maintenance strategies. Packed with practical advice—from planning what to grow and companion planting to dealing with pests and diseases and no-dig gardening—plus 200 gorgeous color photos from the author's own weekend vegetable garden, shot by renowned garden photographer Clive Nichols, this is essential reading for the time-poor gardener. Achieve maximum yields from your vegetable plot with minimum effort, with Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening ! "If you want a no-nonsense guide to growing vegetables the easy way, look no further" —Kitchen Garden "This simple guide will get you on the right track" —Garden Answers Magazine "A practical guide that would appeal to newcomers who may feel daunted by the apparent complexities of veg growing" —The Garden "An easy-to-get-through guide to help you use your garden for produce, however time-poor you are" —English Garden Magazine Midwest Book Review: An dedicated gardener and an experienced garden designer, Clare Matthews has written "Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening: Bumper Crops in Minutes a Day Using Raised Beds, Planning, and Plant Selection" specifically for those who wish to spend less time in the garden while getting more results from there efforts! "Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening" demystifies the growing of fruit and vegetables and shows that, with the right approach, it can be done successfully as a weekend project or slotted into a busy week. "Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening" explains simple short cuts and unusual low maintenance strategies that really work. "Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening" is filled with inspirational color photography from her own weekend vegetable garden where the principles promoted in this instructional guide have been tried, tested and proven. "Low Maintenance Vegetable Gardening" will have a special and particular appeal to the complete novice planning a new vegetable garden as well as the more experienced gardener who is looking to save time and increase productivity. Filled with fantastic images and sound horticultural advice, "Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening" is an indispensable guide for anyone with limited time who still wants to achieve high yields from their vegetable plot. Thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, "Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening" is especially recommended for personal and community library Gardening instructional reference collections. ― Midwest Book Review Publishers Weekly: Weekend gardener Matthews’s handy volume offers sympathetic and hands-on guidance for the garden lover whose enthusiasm for the soil is overshadowed by the urgencies of work. Even the most time-crunched, Matthews asserts, can still get their hands dirty; the key is limiting the square footage of the garden and strategically cultivating plants that are temperature tolerant and resistant to pests. Drawing from a comprehensive listing of edible plants that are “very easy” (such as potatoes, zucchini and spinach), “easy” (kale, squashes, various berries), and “fairly easy” (carrots, ca