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RE: Second hand books I've bought - Small chilli - 14-10-2024
Luckily our charity shop still take gardening & cookery books. And I still want gardening books with pictures. Especially being dyslexic. Pictures are a must for me.
RE: Second hand books I've bought - Bren - 14-10-2024
I still buy cookery books usually from charity shops.
When I’m after a new recipe like to look at 4 or 5 book's picking the bits I like from each recipe then make a meal that suits us.
RE: Second hand books I've bought - JJB - 15-10-2024
The most depressing side of charity shop books is seeing your favourite treasured book on the shelves for peanuts.
RE: Second hand books I've bought - Mark_Riga - 15-10-2024
(15-10-2024, 09:02 AM)JJB Wrote: The most depressing side of charity shop books is seeing your favourite treasured book on the shelves for peanuts.
You wouldn't be too depressed round here. The cheapest paperbacks in the local Oxfam are £3 now and hard backs will likely cost a tenner. And they are not in pristine condition by any means.
RE: Second hand books I've bought - toomanytommytoes - 15-10-2024
(13-10-2024, 01:21 PM)Veggie Wrote:I haven't watched or read any of Charles' content since I found him in a video endorsing all sorts of quackery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_HWRXm1jFg(13-10-2024, 08:34 AM)Small chilli Wrote: Of all the second hand gardening books you’ve brought, which have you found most useful ?I'm not a fan of No Dig Charles either. All his books have the same information, jiggled about and regurgitated. .
RE: Second hand books I've bought - JJB - 15-10-2024
(15-10-2024, 09:18 AM)Mark_Riga Wrote:(15-10-2024, 09:02 AM)JJB Wrote: The most depressing side of charity shop books is seeing your favourite treasured book on the shelves for peanuts.
You wouldn't be too depressed round here. The cheapest paperbacks in the local Oxfam are £3 now and hard backs will likely cost a tenner. And they are not in pristine condition by any means.
Me and my Yorkshire pal (who won't buy anything unless it's discounted)
boycott Oxfam, we expect paperbacks to be under a pound. Our favourite charity shop does them for 10p. British Heart Foundation books are also pricey. The 10p charity shop manger say its because they are forced to apply generic prices whereas she has autonomy on price labelling.
RE: Second hand books I've bought - Vinny - 15-10-2024
(13-10-2024, 01:21 PM)Veggie Wrote:You have mentioned the only two gardeners I used to follow! Sadly Geoff Hamilton is no longer with us and I haven't heard a peep from Bob Flowerdew for a while? Both were down to earth gardeners but Geoff was very middle class wherea Bob struck a note with my Council house mentality!(13-10-2024, 08:34 AM)Small chilli Wrote: Of all the second hand gardening books you’ve brought, which have you found most useful ?Very few of them! Nobody gardens my way.
Joy Larkcom's "Grow your own vegetables" for basic essential information - like when to sow, spacing etc. No pictures, just words.
I like books about Forest gardening, perennial veg, polyculture, herbs.
Books with the words Design & Plan in the titles have no chance. Not a fan of TV gardeners although Bob Flowerdew and Geoff Hamilton are OK.
I'm not a fan of No Dig Charles either. All his books have the same information, jiggled about and regurgitated. .
RE: Second hand books I've bought - toomanytommytoes - 15-10-2024
Flowerdew is on Radio 4's Gardener's Question Time quite a lot. He has an active Twitter account too - https://x.com/FlowerdewBob
RE: Second hand books I've bought - Vinny - 15-10-2024
(15-10-2024, 11:34 AM)JJB Wrote:AGE Concern used to be my favourite for books at 29p each and the shop always appeared to be full? Unfortunately it shut down though so maybe the pricing policy didn'twork!(15-10-2024, 09:18 AM)Mark_Riga Wrote:(15-10-2024, 09:02 AM)JJB Wrote: The most depressing side of charity shop books is seeing your favourite treasured book on the shelves for peanuts.
You wouldn't be too depressed round here. The cheapest paperbacks in the local Oxfam are £3 now and hard backs will likely cost a tenner. And they are not in pristine condition by any means.
Me and my Yorkshire pal (who won't buy anything unless it's discounted)
RE: Second hand books I've bought - Mark_Riga - 18-10-2024
(13-10-2024, 08:34 AM)Small chilli Wrote: Of all the second hand gardening books you’ve brought, which have you found most useful ?
I don't think I've bought any second hand books and not many new ones. I do get bought gardening books though as presents quite regularly - they mustn't think I'm doing it right. My one main principle is to never get rid of organic matter whether it is diseased or full of seeds, it goes on the compost heap - with the exception of white rot infection and horsetail roots which go in the verge opposite and on the road to be crushed respectively. I've never had garden waste collected or a garden fire.
I have just looked in my 'library' and seen one book bought second hand 'save your own seed' by Lawrence D. Hills, 40 pages from 1975. That's far more pages than needed but he does tend to ramble on in his writing. At the end he quotes from a 1558 gardening book: "One acre composted is worth acres 3, at harvest thy barns shall declare it to thee".