About the Author

Graham Clarke studied with the UK's Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley Gardens, and after that worked as a gardener at Buckingham Palace in London. For thirty years he has been a gardening writer and journalist. He has written fifteen books, many of them concerned with growing fruit and vegetables organically. At various times he was editor of two of the UK's leading weekly magazines - Amateur Gardening (for amateurs) and Horticulture Week (for professionals). Graham now runs a horticultural consultancy in Dorset, on England's south coast, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.