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A**N
Terrific Get-Started Book
I don't usually buy gardening books because they overwhelm me with requirements and rules right off the bat. Plus, I have a very small patch of full-sun ground and a bigger patch of most-sun and no book seems willing to help me deal with the differences. On a whim, I bought this book and it has become my absolute favorite. Its friendly tone taught me how to use all my space and what to plant, where, and when. Before I knew it, I was laying mulch and buying fish meal fertilizer and off we go! I just cut my season's first leaves of lettuce and am excited for more harvests.The book has excellent quick information: are cucumbers 'hot' or 'cold' plants? How to do I trim my tomato plants? It's all in there and easy to find. How to build a support structure given my materials and abilities? You got it - several different suggestions. I think this book is great for someone getting started. Give it a try - the results will taste like victory.
K**Y
Great for the beginner gardener
We just started container and raised gardening. This was a great introductory tool to help us grow a good amount of veggies and fruits, as well as start our own seedlings. I would recommend this if you are interested in square foot gardening or having a higher yield of produce in a smaller amount of space (i.e. not paying too close attention to the spacing requirements written on the garden tags).
O**N
I like the background material
I like the background material, the concept development and the planting advice. All of this is really solid and gives a good background to intensive gardening. After buying and soaking up this book, I then found references elsewhere to a form of gardening that builds on this information by divided up areas into grids and proscribed what could be in each grid. That is perhaps the only downside to this book is that it does not define easily replicated planting patterns.
O**R
Novice to experienced will find anwers
Giving this one as a gift, I love mine so much. I am 20 years a backyard gardener - but what I have learned from this book tells me I was a novice! Such wonderful information; how to plant, rotate crops, what crops like each other & what does not, and how much to plant in small spaces!! Inspired idea from the author!
L**N
Found garden space everywhere!!
This is a great resource. I actually flipped through the whole thing, reading snippets from all different parts, the day I got it. You have to love a gardening book that helps you realize you can stash a garden bed (or two) wherever you might have a bit of space AND that is interesting enough you stay up late to finish looking through the whole thing! Go...garden...even a little!
K**R
Looks like a good idea
Living in the city we don't have a lot of room for gardening. Anything and everything we can find to help is worth the try. We already have square foot gardening. This book takes it to the next level. Lets see how it works.
A**R
Five Stars
Great book; beautifully illustrated and full of many ideas. Glad to have it in my library.
G**L
Tomato Queen
I've always had a garden. I have numerous plants in a relatively small space. This book helped me plan my vegetable garden better and helped me to learn what vegetables can and should be planted in the same area. I t's a very helpful book.
S**P
Five Stars
This little book is great - everything I hoped it would be.
J**.
Four Stars
This book has some very good ideas.
E**E
excelent.
a book for ongoing reference, suits the use it was purchased for,excelent.
P**M
Five Stars
Love this book, can't wait to get started
P**H
Not the Best!
Very cheaply made. Newsprint pages and no photos. Not much info I didn't already know. Was quite disappointed. I probably won't refer to it very often.
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