Ultimate Guide to Planting & Growing Vegetables at Home Book Review

About the Book:

The all-in-one go-to guide to gardening!

• Comprehensive resource acts as both a complete how-to guide and question and answer resource for your garden
• Over 70 common garden vegetables and herbs are profiled, including arugula, new potatoes, tomatoes, scallions, snap peas, bok choy, figs, radicchio, artichokes, sage, sorrel, and more
• Prevent pests and diseases and learn how to control them, including aphids, blight, blossom end rot, gray mold, caterpillars, flea beetle, leaf miner, powdery mildew, white fly, tomato split, rust, and more
• Taking an organic approach, raised bed gardening, projects to support plant growth, plant care and protection, soil treatments, composting, and more helpful expert advice

Every gardener needs at least one comprehensive gardening book on their shelf. Ultimate Guide to Planting & Growing Vegetables at Home is that book!

This is an all-in-one resource for beginner to advanced gardeners, with chapters on what you need to think about before starting a garden, planning, prepping, choosing the vegetables, sowing, growing, small space gardening, raised bed gardening, container gardening, vertical gardening, harvesting, and more.

The editors of Creative Homeowner cover essential topics including where to put your garden, projects to support high yield plant growth, protection and care of plants, soil treatments, disease and pest treatment, chitting potatoes, a tomato spotlight on different varieties, and so much more!

This information-packed ultimate guide features over 70 plant profiles, including potatoes, lettuce, beetroot, radishes, figs, radicchio, cucumbers, zucchini, squash, sweet corn, sugar peas, sage, sorrel, mint, thyme, and more. Included are beautiful full-color photos to help you along the way.

My Review:

There is a great deal of information in this book illustrated with many photos. Some of my favorite sections included the extensive information on composting, how to build and use raised beds, and what plants go well together. The little insert on which plants can grow so well that they will become weeds was a good warning. I liked their detailed instructions on vegetables like potatoes and carrots. There is information on how to store them. There are even a few recipes included.

This is a good, all around book for those who would like to grow their own vegetables.

My rating: 4/5 stars.

Creative Homeowner, 304 pages.

I received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher. My comments are an independent and honest review.

(My star ratings: 5-I love it, 4-I like it, 3-It's OK, 2-I don't like it, 1-I hate it.)