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I’m sure a lot of what in this book is sound information. I was just surprised ( after not reading it for a very long time) at how dated some of it is.

Those Dr Hessayon books have been around since at least the 1970s - I remember my mum having the Houseplant Expert one. The first edition might have officially been published in 1998, but I wouldn't be surprised if much of the content was recycled from earlier books (e.g. separate vegetable and herb experts) and lightly updated by the then-70-year-old author.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with an older gardening expert (I'm hardly a spring chicken myself!), but there's a saying in science that old ideas are only replaced by new ones because old scientists die off and are replaced by young ones! Probably true in all walks of life, tbh.