Getting on with growing in containers this summer
30/03/2010
Getting on with growing in containers is a fantastic new full colour, 108 page spiral bound book on how to grow an extensive range of plants whatever the size of your gardening space when you have sight loss.
Produced by Thrive, the charity that uses gardening to transform the lives of people with disabilities, this book shows how using containers can provide exciting, flexible and manageable growing spaces. This guide to growing in containers will be invaluable whether you are new to gardening, or are more experienced. The methods described have also been tried-and-tested by people who have sight loss including top tips from members of the National Blind Gardeners’ Club.
Containers are ideal for creating different soil conditions according to the needs of your plants. So whether you fancy a few herbs growing on your windowsill, or a profusion of flowering plants and vegetables, fruits, shrubs or trees, containers are ideal growing spaces.
The book’s getting started section covers choosing a container and growing medium, arranging plants and planting up, maintenance – watering, feeding, plant support, potting-on, protection and pests and diseases.
There are also planting ideas and tips for ornamental containers, trees and shrubs, herbs, vegetables, fruit and houseplants. Lastly there is a useful year planner, a glossary of terms, equipment and suppliers, contacts and information about how Thrive can offer support including joining the National Blind Gardeners’ Club.
Getting on with growing in containers is the latest edition in Thrive’s Getting on with Gardening series, produced in partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and supported by the National Lottery’s Big Lottery Fund.
The book is available now in large print and Braille, as well as on Daisy CD and audio CD. It costs £7.50 or £5 to members of the National Blind Gardener’s Club.
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For more information about this release please contact:
Emma Hall on 07956 307382 or email her on emma@thesmallbusinessconsultancy.com
Notes to Editors:
1. Copies of the book are available for review purposes, email Emma on the contact details above to request one. Also, please ask if you require a copy in an alternative format.
2. A copy of the front cover is attached.
3. Thrive spokespeople are available for interview.
4. Thrive is a small national charity that wants to help all those
touched by a disability to be able to transform their lives using gardening. Thrive is the only charity of its kind.
Thrive helps over 6,500 disabled people to carry on gardening at home or who take part in structured horticultural therapy programmes at its sites in Battersea Park in London and Beech Hill, near Reading.
Gardening can bring profound change, from improvements in physical or psychological health and wellbeing to adjustments in beliefs, attitudes or behaviours to the transformation of skills, knowledge and abilities.
One in five people in the UK are living with a disability that they were born with, gained as they age or as a result of an illness or accident.
Interest in gardening amongst disabled people is high at almost 30% and one in three believes that it has ongoing health benefits.
Thrive is a registered charity no. 277570.
Thrive offers free help and advice to through its Information Service over the phone 0118 988 5688, by email at info@thrive.org.uk or through its new website www.carryongardening.org.uk.
For more information please contact: Thrive, The Geoffrey Udall Centre, Beech Hill, Reading RG7 2AAT. T. 0118 988 5688. email: info@thrive.org.uk. Websites: www.thrive.org.uk and www.carryongardening.org.uk
5. The National Blind Gardeners’ Club is a Thrive and RNIB project providing a national service to gardeners who have sight loss.
6. Thrive’s work with people who have sight loss is a partnership project with RNIB and supported by The National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund. This work is guided by an Advisory Committee of Blind Gardeners.
7. RNIB is the leading charity working in the UK offering practical support, advice and information for anyone with sight difficulties. Every day another 100 people will start to lose their sight. There are around two million people in the UK with sight problems. If you, or someone you know, has a sight problem, RNIB can help. Call the RNIB Helpline T: 0845 766 9999 or visit E: www.rnib.org.uk