"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
This comprehensive guide takes you through the process of building and maintaining raised beds to optimize plant growth and harvest. Learn how to choose the right materials, assemble the beds, and fill them with rich soil for healthy plants. Discover expert tips on irrigation, mulching, and crop rotation to ensure a bountiful harvest year after year. Whether you're a beginner looking to start your first raised bed or an experienced gardener seeking to improve your growing techniques, this book has something for everyone. With step-by-step instructions, clear illustrations, and practical advice, you'll be on your way to creating a thriving garden in no time. Explore different design options, from simple wooden beds to multi-level structures, and find the perfect fit for your space and gardening style. Learn organic methods for pest control, companion planting strategies, and soil management techniques to keep your plants healthy and vibrant. Discover how raised beds can extend your growing season, increase crop yields, and improve the overall health of your garden. Whether you're growing vegetables, flowers, or herbs, this book has everything you need to create a thriving garden oasis right in your own backyard."
"A selection of the powerful and poignant wartime letters of Vera Brittain and her friends.‘If war spares me,’ wrote Vera Brittain to her brother Edward in 1916, ‘it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four.’ Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth.
This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between Vera, her brother, her fiancé Roland Leighton and their two best friends Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, they give a unique perspective on the most horrifying conflict the world has ever seen.
They show the heartbreaking disillusionment of an idealistic public-school generation, raised on ideas of patriotism and duty, as the reality of war emerged. Yet they also give a fascinating insight into the era as a whole: their generation’s literary tastes and the place of women in society.
Read by Amanda Root, Jonathan Firth, Rupert Graves, James Wallace and Robert Portal, and first heard on BBC Radio 4, these deeply moving letters let us hear for ourselves the voices of Vera Brittain’s lost generation."
