Vegetable Gardening for Dummies
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The ubiquitous For Dummies series, while not known for pretty illustrations or lush photography, does manage to pack the maximum amount of information into an easy-to-read format--something that gardeners with an eye on the financial bottom line love. For vegetable gardeners, the right information is especially important, because if you don't end up with edible food on the table, you've failed. Charlie Nardozzi and the National Gardening Association editors seem comfortingly aware of this fact, but they also want to make vegetable gardening fun and interesting, and to that end there's a lot more here than just the standard tomatoes and zucchini. Bok choy, fingerling potatoes, kabocha squash, daikon radishes--they've included just about every vegetable you might be able to think of, with pithy recommendations of the tastiest and easiest-to-grow varieties.
The book's first three chapters deal with deciding what to plant, where to plant it, and when. Nardozzi then turns the bulk of the book--nine chapters--over to the vegetables themselves: the tomato (the most popular vegetable for the home gardener); the pepper and eggplant; root crops; legumes; vine crops; cole crops, such as broccoli and cabbage; greens; and sweet corn and unusual vegetables. A special chapter goes to nonvegetables like herbs and berries. The book's third section is devoted to gardening techniques, which more experienced gardeners may want to turn to immediately. There's good, solid information here on irrigation, mulching, reading a fertilizer label, companion and secession planting, and much more. As with all For Dummies titles, the resources listed in the appendix are comprehensive and up to date, and the index (without which any reader might be lost) is complete and useful.
Book Description
No patch of earth is too small to create a delectable vegetable garden when you have Vegetable Gardening For Dummies to help get you started. If you?ve always wanted to grow your own mouthwatering tomatoes, luscious lettuce, crisp, colorful carrots, and virtually any produce you love, you can make that happen with a little planning and care (not to mention the expert advice you get from this book!). After you taste how good homegrown vegetables are, you?ll never settle for supermarket produce again!
Vegetable Gardening For Dummies guides you every step of the way with detailed instructions for everything from planning and preparing to planting, protecting, and harvesting. You discover ten almost "foolproof" vegetables to grow, and you find out how to enjoy new crops for months with succession planting. An entire chapter is dedicated to growing vegetables in containers on your roof or balcony if you don?t have a yard. More than a hundred illustrations throughout the book and tons of colorful photos provide inspiration and ideas for your own vegetable garden. Whether your goal is to grow all of your own food or simply to sneak a few edibles into your ornamental garden, you can find out all you need to know inside the covers of this book.
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