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Give it a Grow

Simple Projects to Nurture Food, Flowers and Wildlife in any Outdoor Space

Martha Swales

$42.99

Hardback

Forthcoming
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English
Penguin Life
10 June 2025
The go-to book for novice gardeners, full of easy projects complete with illustrations on how to grow (and eat) your own food, fruit and flowers, and feel more connected to nature

The first book from amateur gardener and viral sensation Martha Swales, this is a beginner's guide that shows how fun and easy it can be to grow your own slice of nature.

With chapters on veg, fruit, herbs, flowers and wildlife, this book brings together over 40 of Martha's favourite projects to make the most of your garden, patio or balcony (plus recipes for how to cook with your produce, too!)-

Grow garlic greens on your windowsill (and use them to make tasty garlic flatbreads) Fill your garden with wild strawberries Build a pond to bring wildlife to your garden Make a bulb lasagne for a changing display of flowers throughout spring

Offering a fresh alternative to the over-complicated gardening books on the market, this book is perfect for urban readers in their 30's and 40's and shows just how fun gardening can be when you Give it a Grow.
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Imprint:   Penguin Life
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 223mm,  Width: 144mm,  Spine: 31mm
Weight:   422g
ISBN:   9780241710364
ISBN 10:   0241710367
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Martha Swales is an avid urban gardener from London who has been growing her own produce for over twelve years. A TV producer and director specialising in food, she regularly shares her cooking and cultivating tips on social media with millions of people around the world. She shares her little London garden with her housemate Charlie and their rescue cat Mo. Give it a Grow is her first book.

Reviews for Give it a Grow: Simple Projects to Nurture Food, Flowers and Wildlife in any Outdoor Space

A truly inspiring book * Nigella Lawson * Martha invites us to think of gardening the way we do cooking-imperfectly, joyfully, and learning as we go. I've never felt so compelled to get into my garden. It was a true joy to read * Yotam Ottolenghi * You don't have to be naturally green fingered to love this book. It's friendly, easy to read and even easier to understand. But most of all it will make you want to get into the garden * Nadiya Hussain * Martha's love and knowledge of food stems from her passion for gardening. From delicate edible flowers to robust hearty root vegetables, this book will guide and inspire you to grow your own and have some fun on the way * Michel Roux * If there was ever a book to inspire people to grow their own food, this is it. Martha's 'just crack on' approach, and the charming story of her own love affair with her veg plot, is by turns empowering, cajoling and irresistibly enticing. In the end you just can't say no. And why would you? Everything this book is celebrating just makes life better - for you and the world around you * Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall * How to grow it, how to eat it - this is my kind of book! * Jasmine Hemsley * I especially love where Martha describes how we can all be gardeners without having gardens. Her approach to gardening is fun, natural and very heartfelt in this book. But I must say: Martha's enthusiasm towards gardening and connectivity to nature is a bug (pardon the pun) she picked up from her mother, that is evident in every page of this book * Rekha Mistry, Head Gardener, Presenter, Author * Martha has been inspiring me for years with her clever, creative and super practical ideas and now she's gathered them into one beautiful and practical guide. I'm such a fan boy, it's kinda embarrassing * James Wong *


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