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THE WEEKLY GARDENING column by Jonathan Spade in the New Zealand Herald is well-known to a large and loyal following. In its mixture of gardening advice and historical anecdote, with a touch of humour, the author's writing style is entertaining as well as informative.

In The New Zealand Kitchen Garden, Jonathan Spade uses this very readable style to discuss growing productive vegetable crops in the home garden. From the basics of setting up a garden to specific cultivation information, it's here: the use of fertilisers and manures and the value of compost; gardening techniques such as seed-sowing and intercropping; the control of pests and diseases; and using cold frames, cloches and glasshouse.

In the second part of the book the reader is given details for growing more than 70 vegetables - all the old friends and some new acquaintances and 25 culinary herbs. As well there are notes on such other plants as strawberry, cape gooseberry and rhubarb which are often found in the kitchen garden.
 
In addition there is a month-by- month calendar of work in the garden.
JONATHAN SPADE, who writes the gardening column for the New Zealand Herald, Auckland, is the pseudonym and almost the alter ego of Noel Chappell. He is a retired journalist who worked for daily newspapers in Christchurch where he attended Christchurch Boys' High School and graduated B.A. from the then Canterbury University College of the University of New Zealand Wellington and Auckland. He was associate editor of the Herald at retirement.