3-Step Vegetable Gardening: The Quick and Easy Way to Grow Super-Fresh Produce

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Many people would love to enjoy eating super-fresh homegrown produce but don't know how. Starting with what varieties to plant through how to tend their garden and when and how to harvest the fruits of thei labors, this book is the complete vegetable gardening system for busy people. The book breaks things down into three simple steps: sow, grow, and harvest.

Readers will learn how to set their garden; how to install raised beds and a watering system; and why the time spent getting ready to sow will be repaid many times over during the summer. They will find out how to grow, learning all about mulches and weed covers, garden sites, and planting...

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Overview

Many people would love to enjoy eating super-fresh homegrown produce but don't know how. Starting with what varieties to plant through how to tend their garden and when and how to harvest the fruits of thei labors, this book is the complete vegetable gardening system for busy people. The book breaks things down into three simple steps: sow, grow, and harvest.

Readers will learn how to set their garden; how to install raised beds and a watering system; and why the time spent getting ready to sow will be repaid many times over during the summer. They will find out how to grow, learning all about mulches and weed covers, garden sites, and planting plans. Then day by day through the growing season, they will see how to make their garden grow. And finally they'll learn how to tell when it's time to harvest and how to store vegetables they can't eat right away.
By spending growing their own vegetables, readers will enjoy crops harvested at the peak of perfection, bringing food from garden to table in minutes flat. And they'll be eating the freshest home-grown vegetables, herbs, and fruit available instead of the underripe or limp, sickly offerings so often found in supermarkets.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781580114073
  • Publisher: Creative Homeowner Press
  • Publication date: 11/1/2008
  • Edition description: First
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 530,703
  • Series: Gardening Series
  • Product dimensions: 8.40 (w) x 10.80 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Sally Roth has lived and gardened in three distinct climates, Pacific Northwest, Midwest, and Northeast and has visited gardens around the country. Because of this experience, Sally avoids a shortcoming of many garden writers who become so focused on conditions in their garden that they don't take account of problems gardeners experience in other parts of the country.

 

Sally is the co-author of Rodale's Successful Organic Gardening: Companion Planting (1994) and has also co-written Taylor's Guide to Fruits and Berries (1996). She wrote The Successful Herb Gardener: Growing and Using Herbs--Quickly and Easily (Country Living Gardener, 2005). She has written many other gardening books and currently lives in New Harmony, Indiana.

 

 

Steve Mercer has worked for the past 25 years on one of the UK's leading gardening magazines (Garden: Which), researching, testing, and writing about all kinds of vegetables, techniques, and equipment. He has run two large vegetable gardens and is just about to start a third from scratch. Despite this, he can’t resist growing vegetables and herbs in pots and in the back garden, too, for extra fresh produce. Steve lives in the United Kingdom and is a member of the RHS vegetable trials committee.

 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Ready
Vegetables in the Border 
Raised Beds 
Vegetables in Containers 
Finding Out about Your Soil  
Soil Preparation  
Improving Your Soil  
Crop Rotation  
Hardiness & Heat Zones  

Chapter 2: Sow
Starting from Seeds 
Sowing Methods  
Raising Transplants  
Buying Vegetable Plants  
Planting Transplants  
Extending the Season  
Using Space Efficiently  

Chapter 3: Grow
Watering Vegetables 
Feeding Vegetables  
Mulching & Weed Control 
Preventing Diseases  
Controlling Pests  
Staking & Supporting  

Chapter 4: Harvest
Deciding When to Pick  
Freezing & Drying  
Other Storage Strategies  

Chapter 5: Salad Greens
Arugula  
Endive  
Chicory   
Lettuce  
Mesclun & Others  
Spinach & Swiss Chard  
Edible Flowers  
Other Salad Greens  

Chapter 6: Beans, Peas & Sweet Corn
Fava Bean  
Bush Bean  
Pole Bean  
Pea  
Sweet Corn  

Chapter 7: The Onion Family
Garlic  
Shallot  
Leek  
Onions  
Scallion  

Chapter 8: The Cabbage Family
Broccoli  
Brussels Sprouts  
Cabbage  
Cauliflower  
Chinese Cabbage  
Bok Choy 
Other Asian Greens  
Kale & Collard 
Kohlrabi  

Chapter 9: Root Vegetables
Beet  
Carrot  
Celery  
Celeriac  
Parsnip 
Potato 
Radish  
Winter Radish  
Sweet Potato  
Turnip  
Rutabaga/Florence Fennel

Chapter 10: Heat-Loving Vegetables
Eggplant  
Pepper & Chili  
Okra  
Tomatillo  
Tomato  

Chapter 11: Vine Crops
Cucumber  
Melon  
Pumpkin & Winter Squash  
Zucchini & Summer Squash  

Chapter 12: Herbs & Perennial Vegetables
Basil  
Bay/Chervil 
Chives/Dill 
Cilantro & Coriander  
Fennel/Lemon Balm 
Lemongrass/Marjoram 
Mint  
Oregano/Rosemary 
Parsley  
Sage/Savory 
Tarragon/Thyme 
Globe Artichoke  
Asparagus  
Horseradish  
Jerusalem Artichoke  
Rhubarb  

Chapter 13: Garden Fruit
Strawberry 
Blueberry  
Blackberry & Hybrids  
Currant & Gooseberry  
Grape  
Raspberry  

Glossary  
Resources & Suppliers  
Index  
Acknowledgments  

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Posted August 30, 2009

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    great for starters

    when i started my veggie garden and was lost on what to do, i found this book out of 12 to be one of the easist to read and get ideas from. i went on a week long search for good gardening books and i love this one! there are alot of other good gardening books out there but some of them go way too far indepth for a 1st timer.

    great book and will be getting it for a few people for xmas gifts!

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  • Posted June 13, 2009

    Great for Beginers

    The Veggie garden book is great for any size garden. And great for patio gardens in pots. That is why I bought it. Great info and pictures very well done book.

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  • Posted May 16, 2009

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    A great well illustrated book for the beginning and average gardener.

    This is a good book for the beginning and average gardener. It covers just about all of the gardening information a person would need including info on the most popular types of vegetables, soil requirements, planting techniques, etc. Very well illustrated and well organized and very easy to read and understand. Highly recommended.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 24, 2010

    Gardening

    I enjoyed this book. I like how it goes into many different plants and tells how to take care of them.

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