The Victorian kitchen garden companion

This small volume has been compiled as a 'companion' to *The Victorian Kitchen Garden*, the book I wrote to record the re-making of the garden and the re-discovery of the old plant varieties its walls once contained. It is also a tribute to the garden itself, and to all those who helped in its restoration. It is *not* a book to be followed, word for word, for practical instruction, though I hope that Harry's comments, tips and stories will prove useful and inspirational for many gardeners. It is (I hope) an entertaining reminder of a year spent in the cloistered yet productive world of the ninteenth-century kitchen garden. As *The Cottage Gardener and Country Gentleman's Companion* commented in 1856, 'Some people may say "This reading and writing so much, what good is it?" ...In gardening matters it is this good - you can refer to the past, and see how it corresponds with the present, and, from the experience thus gained, the course for the future can be the more easily shaped out.' -Jennifer Davies