The Vegetable Gardening Book
Your complete guide to growing an edible organic garden from seed to harvest
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- £12.99
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- £12.99
Publisher Description
The award-winning television and podcast host Joe Lamp’l is here with insider tips and next-level insight for creating a lush, fruitful, and resilient vegetable garden.
Just when you think you have a secure grip on what it takes to grow a vegetable garden, a pro like Joe comes along to surprise you with a wheelbarrow full of new-to-you information to knock your gardening socks right off. In The Vegetable Gardening Book, Joe distills insight from years interviewing highly experienced growers for public television’s Growing a Greener World and The joe gardener® Show Podcast along with his own extensive, hands-on knowledge of the craft to present practical and useful info on everything from starting seeds and selecting varieties to building the perfect tomato cage, encouraging pollinators, and creating biodiversity-rich soil in a 100% organic food garden. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in growing the best edible garden their backyard (or balcony!) has ever seen.
Inside you’ll find:
Ideas for designing and laying out your garden for the greatest yields in the smallest amount of space A sure-fire plan for reducing maintenance and trimming down the traditional workload of a garden Detailed growing profiles of 40 of Joe’s favorite cropsA handy reference chart with an easy-to-follow crop rotation plan Advice and tips for extending the growing season, building raised beds, setting up a potting station, and deciding which garden tools are worth your time and moneyStrategies to grow anywhere and everywhere—from in-ground garden beds and containers to grow bags and raised-bed planters
Among the most trusted, recognizable, and sought-after voices in the gardening world, Joe Lamp’l is here to help you “Grow like a pro – no experience required!™”
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Lamp'l (Green Gardener's Guide), host of the TV show Growing a Greener World, offers a master class on growing veggies with these savvy tips for beginners. He walks readers through the basics—choosing a site (go for the "sunniest spot you have to work with"), drawing out a master plan, maintaining soil health—and digs into plant nutrients, compost, and how to deal with pests and diseases (a layer of mulch, for example, halts the spread of soilborne pathogens). Elsewhere, Lamp'l offers a recipe for raised bed soil, explains how to start seeds, and describes the benefits of using a planting board—made from a scrap piece of lumber, it's "the handiest tool you'll ever want to have in the garden"—to space out seeds. Especially helpful is the encyclopedic growing guide to 40 vegetable varieties, with notes on planting, care, harvesting, and storage for each. Lamp'l covers a lot of ground, his advice is practical, and his tone genial: "A backyard vegetable garden may be a simple thing, but it can have a genuinely profound impact." Gardeners ready to grow their own produce will find this worth returning to.
