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To improve your health and well-being – grow vegetables! Enjoy the pleasures of the open air, exercise and good food and lead a healthier lifestyle.We all love eating fresh, home-grown vegetables – they have a flavour and texture that is impossible to find in shop-bought vegetables as well as the added advantage of improving our health and lifestyle – especially if you invest the time and energy in growing your own! For successful vegetable growing use this book as a reference guide. First check your soil type and, with your local climate and soil conditions in mind, go to the appropriate sections for your vegetable-growing needs. For details of specific vegetables take advantage of the comprehensive Vegetable index at the end of this book. Grow Vegetables to Improve Your Health & Well-being is full of handy tips and advice to help you design your vegetable garden and choose which vegetables to plant. It includes an extremely useful reference list and descriptions of over 120 vegetables suitable for planting in different soils, situations and conditions. Vegetables come in many shapes and forms, from root & tuberous vegetables to bulb vegetables, stem vegetables, climbing vegetables, groundcover/scrambling vegetables, flower and flower-bud vegetables and salad and leaf vegetables. Whichever vegetables you choose to plant – either because they are your favourites or because they bring you specific added health benefits – they’ll be especially delicious if grown with care.Prepare yourself to become fitter and more relaxed!