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Vegetable Gardening: From Planting to Picking - The Complete Guide to Creating a Bountiful Garden


by Fern Marshall Bradley, Jane Courtier

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Sales Rank: 52359
Studio: Readers Digest
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: February 16, 2006
Publisher: Readers Digest


CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 4 reviews)

growing vegetables illustrated  
I bought this book for my son who is a beginning gardner. He has reviewed it and says it will be very helpful with his garden next spring.
January 12, 2008

Great resource with beautiful pictures  
I found this book to be very helpful and a great read. I really like the way it is organized and illustrated, the pictures are beautiful and informative. The authors took the time to make the book accessable for those who may not be fully acquainted with the art of veggie gardening...

overall it is a worthwhile buy.
June 07, 2007

Fantastic Book - Comprehensive, Helpful, and Beautiful!  
I received this gorgeous book last Christmas and have since read through it so many times it's getting dog-eared! It's not only a comprehensive volume, covering everything from salsify to celeriac and kolhrabi to tomatoes, peppers, and lettuce, but it also gives excellent tips on how to set up your garden, when to harvest, and how to store your vegetables. It's arranged in a very user-friendly way, with tips and tricks and reccommended varieties on the side and loads of photographs. In fact, the full-color pictures are so incredibly gorgeous that this could be a coffee table book! Do yourself or the gardener in your life (amateur or otherwise) a favor and pick this up!!
May 15, 2007

User friendly with wonderful illustrations  
I've checked out most vegetable gardening books at the local library and used the extension service materials, but this is the best general guide I've seen. Each vegetable and common herb gets its own page with how to plant, maintaing harvest and treat common problems. There are organic methods side by side with nonorganic methods to let the reader choose instance by instance. Each page has an illustration or actual photograph. Where appropriate information on growing in different hardiness zones is included. There are also step by step instructions on planing, preparing the ground, sowing and planting, making your garden grow (watering, feedings, weeding, pests diseases, harvest and storage, and lastly pages for each vegetable as grouped into sections such as herbs, root and stem crops etc. I checked this out from the library but decided to buy it after realzing how useful it will be in my house as a reference.
July 27, 2006


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