{"product_id":"digital-product","title":"Otto’s Garden Handbook – A Practical Guide to Growing at Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e50 plants you can grow from your kitchen bin, and the honest truth about every one.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA great deal of what sits in your kitchen bin will grow. Rather less of it will give you anything to eat, and the difference between the two is not a matter of luck or technique. Otto's Garden Handbook goes through fifty of them one at a time and says plainly which is which.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEvery plant is answered the same way\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe verdict.\u003c\/strong\u003e One blunt line at the top of every entry, so you know before you read any further whether the thing is worth your windowsill.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat to do.\u003c\/strong\u003e Numbered steps, each with a title and a plain explanation, written for somebody who has never grown anything.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhere it goes wrong.\u003c\/strong\u003e The specific mistakes that stop each plant working, and what the symptom actually means when you see it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest timeline.\u003c\/strong\u003e Days, months or years, stated plainly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e99 pages, typeset and photographed throughout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e50 plants, each with its own entry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSixteen chapters: compost, sowing, water, warmth and light, damping off, pricking out and potting on, hardening off, feeding, making your own compost, the four chapters of plants, what goes wrong, pests, and the growing year\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA summary index listing every plant with its first result and its honest verdict\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInstant PDF download — read it on a phone, a tablet or a computer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the advice comes from\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe horticultural guidance is drawn from university extension services and the Royal Horticultural Society, and every figure in the book comes from one of those sources. Where those sources disagree, the book prints the disagreement. Where Otto could not find an authority, the book says so rather than inventing an answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHearth \u0026amp; Rue is an independent publisher. No university, extension service or horticultural society is affiliated with, sponsors or endorses this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eA note on growing conditions\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTimings, temperatures and frost dates vary enormously from one garden to the next. Everything in the book counts from your own last and first frost dates rather than from a calendar month, and it teaches you to work from them. Treat every figure as a starting point for your own garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePlease note\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a digital product. Otto's Garden Handbook is delivered as a PDF download after purchase — no physical book is shipped. It is licensed for the personal use of the purchaser.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 13 contains food-safety information that matters, in particular about sprouting seed to eat raw and about raw or undercooked kidney beans. Please read it before you sprout anything in a jar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store 4","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54827634622802,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1113\/6086\/8690\/files\/ChatGPTImageSep24_2026_02_36_15PM.png?v=1790253385","url":"https:\/\/ottogrows.store\/products\/digital-product","provider":"Otto Grows","version":"1.0","type":"link"}