Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables

Millions of people started vegetable gardening this year for the first time – this beginner-friendly guide offers them all the information they need to do so successfully. Are you ready to start a vegetable garden but don’t know where to start? Expert gardener Lorene Edwards Forkner is here to help, with an ultra-friendly, accessible guide to growing your own food. The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables starts with a gardening primer that will give you the confidence you need to get started. Planting charts for each growing region in the United States will help you plan your garden, and a month-by-moth planner details exactly what to do from January to December. Profiles of the most popular veggies and herbs detail everything you need to know for success – how to plant, how to care for them, and when and how to harvest. The advice found in The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables applies to everyone, whether you are gardening in raised beds, in containers, on a balcony, or even on a windowsill. There’s no reason to wait – grab this book and get gardening! AUTHOR: Lorene Edwards Forkner lives, works, and gardens in Seattle, Washington. She is the former editor of Pacific Horticulture and the author of The Handmade Garden and The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Pacific Northwest. 84 colour photographs