Page 13 - ALG Issue 2 2021

book reviews
Regrown
Paul Anderton & Robin Daly Hardie Grant
ISBN 9781784884031
Like something from a science fiction novel, plants have an extraordinary ability to reproduce themselves without fertilisation. Even your everyday kitchen scraps carry in their cells all the messaging they need to generate countless new versions of themselves. In its most simple form, a small living section of a scrap can be watered
Grow Bag Gardening
Kevin Espiritu
Cool Springs Press ISBN 9780760368688
The revolutionary way to grow bountiful vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers in lightweight, eco-friendly fabric pots. Includes numerous step-by-step projects for using grow bags in unique ways, including how to sew your own bags, DIY
trellising systems, seed starting projects, and a tiered grow bag planter.
and nurtured into a fully
revitalised version of its
former self.
Passionate allotmenteers
Paul Anderton and Robin
Daly, also known as Two
Dirty Bots, find this process mind-bending. With their
combined knowledge of gardening, they want to show how anyone can turn their kitchen waste into edible or ornamental new vegetables, herbs and plants.
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Lessons from Plants
Beronda L. Montgomery Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674241282
Beronda L. Montgomery
explores the vigorous,
creative lives of organisms often
treated as static and predictable. In fact, plants are masters of adaptation. They “know” what or who they are, and they use this knowledge
to make a way in the world. Plants experience a kind of sensation that does not require eyes or ears. They distinguish kin, friend, and foe, and they are able to respond to ecological competition despite lacking the capacity of fight-or-flight. Plants are even capable of transformative behaviours that allow them to maximize their chances of survival in a dynamic and sometimes unfriendly environment.
A fascinating look at plants’ adaptive behaviours, why and how they act the way they do, and what we can learn from them.
Certified Organic Vegetable Plants
www.growersorganics.com
Tel. 01752 881180
Eco-Loos.com
Composting toilets for allotments, gardens and and community spaces. From £1495. Affordable, easy maintenance, waterless and eco friendly. Delivered fully assembled.
• eco-loos@hotmail.co.uk • www.eco-loos.com • 01269 871774 • • Faerie-Thyme, Crwbin, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, SA17 5DR •
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