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Don't know about the book but here is an interesting and relevant website http://www.earthlypursuits.com/AllotGui ... tGuide.htm - is this the online version of what you are looking for?

Allowing for weather changes, that website is fascinating reading and a good basic guide for many things.

If you can't lay hands on manure immediately you could plant a green manure which could be turned in later as a soil improver. I had one half of an allotment that I couldn't get to last year due to work and weather so it spent summer under buckwheat (bring on the local pigeons mind - they love it) a...

checked on the onions in trays in light area of shed, wished for water wings as plot very wet after snow, bought packet of beans, dreamed of having a greenhouse so that I could bring things along in the early part of northern spring - came home

http://www.earthlypursuits.com/allotgui ... tguide.htm

Funny but information from 1945 still seems to apply