Supercharge your food garden while reducing your workload with over 80 detailed solutions, techniques, and methods that resolve some of gardening’s most common challenges.
Illustrated with gorgeous photographs of inspiring gardens, projects in process, and tempting homegrown vegetables, and authored by Resh Gala, a professional kitchen garden designer, Vegetable Gardening Made Easy is filled with valuable advice every food gardener can use.
No matter the size of your garden or your experience level, backyard veggie gardeners like you can use the practical information found inside to grow a more productive (and beautiful!) edible garden.Discover an abundance of useful tidbits on everything from designing the garden and starting from seed to maximizing production, managing pests naturally, and preserving the harvest.
Organized in a stylish and easy-to-use format that prevents overwhelm, each page explains and illustrates an essential piece of core advice, offering plenty of eco-friendly information to lead you to success without making you feel like you need a science degree to make it happen. The format is perfect for today’s time-starved gardeners!
Among the abundance of growing tips and solutions, you’ll find advice on:
Adding healthy biodiversity to your soil and boosting it with micronutrients Growing straighter carrots, spicier peppers, and plumper radishes Pruning tomatoes to enhance yields Hand-pollinating cucumbers and squash for higher production Choosing which crops to grow based on your space and needs Creative ways to sow tiny seeds Simple how-tos for preparing your harvest Storing onions, garlic, and potatoes long-term What to do when your plants turn yellow, have holes, or look sickly
Vegetable Gardening Made Easy is smart garden know-howpresented by a professional kitchen gardener who has “been there, done that” and wants nothing more than to see you succeed. Make it easy and make it fun!
From the Publisher
Planning, designing, and laying out the garden are crucial steps. You want it to be right the first time so you can avoid the headaches of a do-over. Think of your organic edible garden as an extension of your home and personality—you want your garden to look beautiful, be productive, and last for many years to come. Lay a solid foundation and you will avoid problems down the road. Have a vision for your garden.
Should you sow seeds directly in the garden or transplant seedlings instead? If you live in a cold climate with a short growing season, transplanting seedlings after your last frost date will most definitely give you a head start and enable you to harvest fruits and vegetables sooner than if you had directly sown seeds instead. But direct sowing too has its place in the garden, especially for those plants that don’t like their roots being disturbed.
One of the absolute best reasons to grow food in fall and winter is that cold-tolerant veggies taste so much sweeter than when they are grown in warmer months. Carrots, lettuce, even kale, and broccoli taste sweet like candy once they’ve been touched by frost. This is because the cold temperature causes the plant to convert starches into sugars as a survival mechanism.
Did you know that plants belonging to the cucurbit family, such as cucumber, squash, and melons, have separate male and female flowers? Female flower can be identified by an immature, small fruit at the base of the flower. Male flowers will simply have a straight stem. Once you identify the male and female flowers, you can use various tools and techniques to hand-pollinate your plants and ensure a harvest.
Publisher : Cool Springs Press (December 19, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 076038150X
ISBN-13 : 978-0760381502
Item Weight : 14.1 ounces
Dimensions : 5.91 x 0.71 x 7.8 inches
