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Growing Vegetables - ClassBrain Networthy Award
By Cynthia Kirkeby
Mar 30, 2008, 18:49 PST
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One of my favorite books, and a ClassBrain Networthy Award book this season, is a gardening book, Grow Vegetables. It’s a simple compendium of information for gardeners like myself who tend to have a brown thumb for flowers and plants, but who for some reason seem to be able to make vegetables thrive. We do this in spite of our lack of knowledge and due in great part to our vegetables’ heartiness. Now, thanks to Alan Buckingham and Jo Whittingham, we won’t have to bumble our ways to a healthy garden full of vegetables this year. With their help, we can actually take some simple steps that will assure a healthier and easier to grow vegetable patch.
Grow Vegetables gives simple, yet surprisingly thorough advise on everything from prepping your soil, setting your planting calendar, planting seeds, seedlings, and transplants, and troubleshooting when things go wrong. Whether you find that you have a large backyard in which to play gardener, or you would like to grow herbs and select stock in pots on your condo balcony, they have advise for both.
The vegetables are broken down into categories such as root and stem vegetables, peas and beans, salad plants, fruiting vegetables, corn, perennial vegetables, and more. Each section has information on where and when to plant, how to sow the seeds or plant the seedlings, routine care, harvesting, and the all essential “What can go wrong” section. There is also a supplementary section in the back on pests, fungus, bacterial disease, and other blights which may rear their ugly heads in your garden, called the “Vegetable Doctor.”
Add to all of this, a year long planner to help you make the most of your garden with simple reminders and suggestions on things such as crop rotation, which obviously none of us home gardeners really think of much, and you have an spectacular reference book that no victory* gardener should be without (Should you be too young to know of victory gardens from your parents or grandparents, they were the gardens people used to supplement their pantries during World War I and II, when so many items were rationed, restricted, too expensive, or simply not available on the market.)
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