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Vegetable Gardening for Beginners
Learn to Grow Anything No Matter Where You Live
Series: New Shoe Press
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Filled with practical tips and troubleshooting advice, the book ensures your garden remains productive and enjoyable year after year, transforming the gardening journey into a fulfilling and delicious adventure.
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This book is perfect for novice gardeners eager to start growing their own vegetables, as well as those with limited gardening space such as balconies or rooftops. Its step-by-step, scalable approach also appeals to hobbyists aiming to expand their skills with confidence.
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners offers hands-on advice and tested techniques that will make your new garden flourish, whatever its size or location.
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You can grow a thriving vegetable garden with confidence—just follow the easy and accessible instruction in Vegetable Gardening for Beginners. The pride of biting into your first homegrown tomato of the season is unmatched, and even for experienced gardeners, the joy of eating and sharing something that you planted and nurtured never gets old.
This abridged and affordable version of The Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening gives you the confidence, knowledge, and skills to reap the rewards of gardening on whatever level you decide to invest in—from two containers on a porch to multiple raised beds. The instruction allows you to scale down or up and is relevant to gardening wherever you are in the world.
This beginner's guide gives you all the information and tips you need to decide:
- What kind of garden you want
- What types of vegetables you want to plant
- What varietals of vegetables are best for your situation
- How to get the most out of your soil
- How much to water
- What to plant next to what
Put all this advice together to yield the healthiest and most delicious plants! With lots of troubleshooting tips as well as ways to make your garden as productive as possible, year in and year out, this book will make your gardening adventure a joy rather than a frustration.
Jump right in and learn quickly and easily how to become the gardener you want to be. Whether you are on a rooftop, a sidewalk, or in a backyard, you can successfully grow everything from asparagus to zucchini as well as tomatoes, squash, basil, peppers, dill, and every other vegetable and fruit under the sun.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780760383520
Publisher: New Shoe Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 March 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: New Shoe Press
Illustration: color photos
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 191.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 454g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Normal0MicrosoftInternetExplorer4Daniel Johnson (Phelps, Wisconsin) and his sister, Samantha, have collaborated on a number of rural-living guidebooks, including How to Raise Rabbits and Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping. Both are 4-H alumni and live on the family farm, Fox Hill Farm, in far northern Wisconsin. Daniel is a professional photographer whose work can be seen at foxhillphoto.com. Samantha Johnson (Phelps, Wisconsin) and her brother, Daniel, have collaborated on a number of rural-living guidebooks, including How to Raise Rabbits and Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping. Both are 4-H alumni and live on the family farm, Fox Hill Farm, in far northern Wisconsin. Samantha is a certified horse show judge and raises purebred Welsh Mountain ponies and Dutch, Holland Lop, and Netherland Dwarf rabbits.
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