The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardening Book Review – Valuable Step-by-Step Manual
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- Published on Wednesday, 22 May 2024 15:06
- Written by Janet Walker
The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardening, from Quarto Publishing, brings to the pages an exhaustive guide to cultivating the garden, beginning with the basics, from understanding soil to preserving your harvest, companion planting, and herb gardens.
Presented across three chapters, The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardening offers even the neophyte the opportunity to enjoy years of a full harvest of fresh, organic, vegetables, fruits, and herbs.
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Compiled by Editors from Gardening Know How, who also have an active learning channel, present the "Foreword," which introduces the joys of watching the various stages of cultivating a personal garden, and watching the seedlings bloom, and finally produce a bountiful harvest.
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For anyone looking to grow their own food, the first steps are usually the more challenging, including regional crops, companion planting, limited space, irrigation, weeds, pests and how to optimize manure or mulch.
"Chapter One: Edible Garden Basics" addresses these and other concerns such as working with your climate, understanding what grows best in what climate, and presents many different styles of garden including raised beds, which avoid many of the aches of pains of gardening, and allows those who with mobility issues to experience the joys of gardening.
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Along with the usual tips, that are common to understanding the growing cycle of delicious garden vegetables, The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardening gives pointers on finding companion plants that help the others grow more effectively which is called "Companion Planting," and includes a small information box on the "The Three Sisters" of planting, corn, squash, and beans, which were the staples of early Native Americans who understand the concept of companion planting.
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The guide the editors of GardeningKnowHow.com provided include five pages, (page 52 – 56), that present many of the traditional vegetables planted in all gardens and highlights the "Friends," other vegetables that will aid the growing process, and "Foes," which will hinder the harvest.
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"Chapter Two: Fruits and Vegetables" is a glossary of vegetables, with galleries highlighting the various varieties within the same family, along with editor's tips to help the planting and growing cycle.
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Across the 58 pages of the second chapter are featured the most common vegetables, all assortments of Lettuce, Squash, berries, and the unusual selections like Globe Artichoke, Jerusalem Artichoke, and Ramp, (Wild Leeks).
The Complete Guide of Vegetables Gardening continues in "Chapter Three: The Herb Garden," an exhaustive explanation of more than fifty varieties of herbs with galleries of "Mints," "Edible Flowers," and "Creating Seasoning Mixtures."
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Many of the herbs featured are traditional and commonly used. Others are unusual including Borage (page 162, Fenugreek (page 172), Pineapple sage (page 191), Nasturtium (page 188) Salad Burnet (page 196), Roman Chamomile (page 193), Sorrel (page 200) and Winter Savory (page 205).
The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardening is more than a step-by-step guide to building and cultivating a home garden, it is filled with informative notes on elements that are rarely considered when attempting to create gardens of any size.
For those beginners, being armed with knowledge will usually guarantee some level of success and the information provided in The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardening will not only help understand nuances of gardening but will also provide the elements, ability and know how to grow most traditional garden vegetables and create a bountiful harvest.
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Title: The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardening.
Author: Editors of Gardening Know How.
Language: English.
Release Date: January 2024.
Publisher: Quarto Publishing/Cool Springs Press.
Front Cover Image: Matthew Taylor/Alamay Stock Photo,
Cover Design and Page Layout: Lisa Purcell /Moseley Road Inc.
Images: Used with Permission.
Length: 224 pages.
ISBN13: 978-0-7603-8627-9.
MSRP: $24.99 (U.S.), £18.99 (UK), $32.99 (CAN.).
