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Leaflets on Growing Vegetables from the NVS

There is a set of new style growing leaflets produced by the National Vegetable Society, mainly following on from the popular ones that have been around for many years. The NVS leaflets provide expert, concentrated help to the vegetable grower and are available to buy at just 75p each plus postage.

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	Are Your Beds Made Properly? An extensive guide to the types of soil, minerals and lime designed to help you understand your soil and increase the fertility of your soil to grow better crops.
	Growing Culinary Herbs Covers the conditions required for successful growing of a wide range of varieties, propagation and preserving herbs.
	Vegetable Growing Under Cloches Covers the history and use of cloches, types of cloches and materials, sowing dates for different vegetables under cloche
	Marrows Pumpkins & Squashes A guide to growing Marrows Pumpkins & Squashes, which are members of the Curcubita Genus. Covers background, soil conditions, cultivation, varieties and exhibition requirements.
	Runner Beans Covers ground preparation, feeding requirements, sowing the seeds, supporting and regular cultivation methods
	Potatoes Covers soil preparation, purchasing seed potatoes, sprouting (or chitting), planting, varieties, care and cultivation.
	Leeks Covers growing leeks from seed, blanching, exhibition and the construction of a typical leek trench.
	Cucumbers Covers sowing the seed, preparation, growing on, greenhouse training, frame cultivation, ridge or outdoor cucumbers, grafting cucumbers, gherkins, varieties, pests and diseases
	Beetroot, Leaf Beet and Spinach Covers types of beetroot, seed sowing and cultivation, pests and diseases, Swiss chards or seakale beet, conditions for growth etc.
	Celery & Celeriac Covers the soil preparation, sowing, subsequent care, varieties, pests and diseases of celeriac and self-blanching and green celery. There is also an informative section on growing exhibition celery.
	Salad Vegetables A discussion of various vegetables and utilisation in salads.
	Onions Covers growing from seed, growing from sets, growing from pips and growing for exhibition.
	Seeds for the Kitchen It is surprising how many seeds can be found in the larder and this leaflet covers most of them including angelica, caraway, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel, mustard and poppy.
	Peas Covers nutritional values, types of pea, first early, second early and maincrop, mangetout, petit pois, asparagus peas, soil types, sowing and cultivation, pests and diseases, growing for exhibition.
	Aubergines and Peppers Covers varieties, cultivation and culinary uses.
	Cauliflower for Exhibition A guide to growing superb cauliflowers suitable for the show bench.