Product Description

Discover the joy of sowing and raising your own vegetables with this thoroughly practical, comprehensive A-Z of the most popular vegetables and herbs. Featuring detailed descriptive portraits of over 60 different vegetable varieties you will learn about each entry from planting to harvest. Clearly presented tips on sowing seeds, transplanting, growing, winter care, harvesting, storage and the best varieties to grow provide at-a-glance information. Find out how each vegetable interacts with others and its environment; helping you to become as much a part of the garden as the plants you grow. Tips, tricks and secrets from a successful gardener's lifetime of experience make success truly achievable and will inspire even the novice gardener.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49732 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 128 pages

Review
Review from Amateur Gardening - A no nonsense guide to growing vegetables, herbs and salad leaves organically. --Amateur Gardening

About the Author
Edward C. Smith has been involved in growing vegetables for over 20 years. During that time he has come up with innovative and unique gardening techniques. Together with his family he tends 1,500 square feet of gardening space with over 100 varieties of vegetables. Edward lives in Vermont, USA.

Customer Reviews

Okay, but..
Lots of useful basic growing information, but this was originally published for the US market which has two drawbacks. Firstly the growing temperatures are not those we experience in the UK, more importantly the recommended varieties of many vegetables are unknown or unavailable here.

GREAT!
great flick-through guide to how to grow certain vegetables and fruits etc.

If you want a guide on best practice home food growing, I would recommend "Vegetable Growing Month-by-month: The Down-to-earth Guide That Takes You Through the Vegetable Year" by John Harrison, which not only is fantastically priced, but packed with information on how to grow, what to expect and tips. It is a read, not a flick through, but definitely one of the best books ever.

Good book!
Pros: It gives good planting companions for each vegetable and mentions things about planting depth, spacing, levels of nutrients needed etc and has colour photos.

Cons: It can be a bit vage when talking about 'the first/last frost' Doesnt indicate exactly (or even roughly) when this is!

Apart from that ive been told by my mum that its really good!