Matthew Biggs's Complete Book of Vegetables: The Practical Sourcebook : Growing, Harvesting and Cooking Vegetables

Providing a guide to growing, harvesting, storing and cooking more than 150 vegetables of the temperate world, this book also contains over 200 recipes and ideas for natural by-products, from medicinal and cosmetic uses to natural dyes. There are chapters on planning a garden, growing under glass, propagation, crop rotation, and weed, pest and disease control. The author has been a panellist on "Gardener's Question Time", and writes for "Your Garden" and "Gardener's World".