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General => Bargains Galore => Topic started by: norfolklass on March 23, 2007, 14:52:14
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just popped into "The Works" cheapy cheapsville discount book shop in my lunch hour, and found myself in the gardening section ::)
came away with Dr Hessayon's Fruit Expert for £2 (was £6.99) and Gardener's Question Time Plant Chooser for £6 (was £25) ;D ;D
they've got loads more hardbacks reduced from £20-25 to £5 including:
Pippa Greenwood's Gardening Year (which we, my book design colleagues and I, designed and set – very exciting! ;D)
Gardener's Question Time, 50 Years of
The Garden at Highgrove
and Dr Hessayon's Greenhouse Expert, also £2
have never looked through a Dr Hessayon before: am blown away by the amount of info, and lots of drawings and photos too – so useful for newbies!!! will be keeping my eyes peeled for the Veg Expert
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Some people don't like Dr Hessayon because he's not organic, but I've used his veg book more than any other because it gives so much detail on spacing, timing etc.
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Chemical Ali we call him but the books are useful :)
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Wasn't sure he was a real person until I read in an rhs magazine recently that he'd been given an award!
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... he used to go fly fishing with J R Hartley!
Speaking of the Works, I got a brilliant book in there not too long ago called Botanica - info on 10,000 garden plants and how to cultivate them. Some silly price like £15, as I recall.
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ray's just bought Jimmy's farm book from our cheap book shop, 99p, down from 18.99 ;D