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Helping Your Garden Grow Vegetable Gardening for Dummies
When you first set out to grow a vegetable garden, it can seem like a daunting task. But the editors of the popular series of for dummies books are here to help. Authors Charlie Nardozzi and the National Gardening Association (U.S.) guide you through your first vegetable garden with Vegetable Gardening for Dummies.
Planning Your Garden
Vegetable Gardening for Dummies starts out helping the first time gardener to plan his or her garden. Planning is the key in nearly every home-improvement project, and planting a garden is no exception. From selecting a location for your garden to deciding on which vegetables to plant, Vegetable Gardening for Dummies guides you through the planning stages with ease.
It is easy to follow with practical advice (such as which plants need more sun, and which vegetables should not be grown next to each other). They also tackle pest prevention, garden design, and how to work with the climate you live in rather than against it.
What Vegetables to Grow
Vegetable Gardening for Dummies understands that even with the best plan, you might not have a garden that produces anything anyone would want to eat. (and isnt that the goal of the garden to begin with?) So the next section of Vegetable Gardening for Dummies guides you through the most popular and easy to grow vegetables for the new gardener.
Tomatoes are first up, as they are often the most popular vegetable for backyard gardeners. Varieties, growing tips, pests, and recipes are all included. Vegetable Gardening for Dummies also covers growing other popular garden vegetables, such as peppers, eggplants, carrots, potatoes, peas, and beans. Vine vegetables, corn, herbs, and easy to grow fruits are also included.
The Basics of Gardening
Possibly the most helpful chapters of Vegetable Gardening for Dummies are in the final third, which covers the basics of gardening. There is a chapter which outlines how to actually plant your vegetables (whether they are seeds or seedlings) and care for them as they start to grow. Soil types and fertilizers are also covered, as is directions for making your own compost.
The best tools for you garden and weed and pest control each have their own chapters as well. Finally, Vegetable Gardening for Dummies covers the basics of maintaining your garden so that you can enjoy the vegetables you have grown.
Each section is easy to understand, and has tips that will help out anyone, whether they are starting their first garden or have been gardening for years. Vegetable Gardening for Dummies is a book that no backyard gardener should be without. |
