Flowerpots For Goalposts: From pitch to patch, how bring the beautiful game creating a winning garden.

Can you name every member of your 1990's Division One promotion-winning squad but not a single plant, flower or weed in that overgrown patch called 'the garden'?Wish that pock-marked strip of a lawn looked more like Wembley on Cup Final day?Time to dust off your boots. This book will show you how to apply all that accumulated football expertise to create a garden worthy of champions.With practical tips backed by footballing analogies, we guide you through every step of becoming the 'gaffer' in the garden - everything from preparing your playing surface, picking a winning squad of dazzling performers to making your own compost.Gardening, just like the beautiful game, isn't about perfection. It's about those moments of triumph that make all those disappointments disappear. So put down the remote, grab a spade and get in the game."Secateurs are the Kevin de Bruyne of your toolbelt - sharp, creative and always in the thick of the action." "Sometimes gardening, like defending a one-goal lead in injury time, requires getting down and dirty."