5 Books on Vegetable Gardening

How to Create a New Vegetable Garden: Producing a Beautiful and Fruitful Garden from Scratch

Charles Dowding

Full of no-nonsense and straightforward advice.  This title is the perfect starting point for the beginner or experienced gardener.

Grow Food for Free: the Sustainable, Zero-Cost, Low-Effort Way to a Bountiful Harvest

Huw Richards

Contains practical advice you need to start, grow, nurture, and harvest your own fruit and vegetables organically and at zero cost, even if you're new to gardening.

Grow Great Vegetables in New Jersey

Marie Iannotti

The ultimate guide to growing food in the Garden State!

Grow What you Love: 12 Food Plant Families to Change Your Life

Emily Murphy

A simple guide to growing vegetables, herbs and more that will add to the flavor and variety of fresh produce choices throughout the year.

New Vegetable Garden Techniques: Essential Skills and Projects for Tastier, Healthier Crops

Joyce Russell

This book makes several promises to its readers. Firstly, by following its advice you will grow great fruit and vegetables. Next, the knowledge you gain will save you time as well as money. Third, you'll enjoy the gardening journey and the discoveries made along the way. Fourth, you'll find greener and cleaner ways of doing things, and you'll improve your skills, methods and habits.

Some GREAT Gardening Websites

• Better Homes and Gardens
  Loaded with articles, slideshows and tools for both beginners and advanced gardeners. An extremely comprehensive guide on where to start and where to plant.

• Gardening Know How
  Packed with how-to guides and videos to help you if you’re a beginner or advanced gardener. You can even create a personalized magazine, track your garden progress and set reminders with the GKH Gardening Companion app for your iPhone or Android. Very cool!

• Martha Stewart
  A wealth of gardening information from Martha and her team. They have put together a robust collection of techniques, tips and tricks to help your garden flourish.

• Smart Gardener
  One of the most comprehensive tools to help you plan, grow and harvest your own food. There’s even an interactive garden planner that helps you drag and drop different beds, plants and layouts based on your garden dimensions.

• You Grow Girl
  A blog with a contemporary, laid-back approach to organic gardening. It places equal importance on environmentalism, style, affordability, art, and humor.

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