This is your guide to grow-your-own success.
The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables
By Lorene Edwards Forkner
Timber Press, 2021
From the Preface:
Grow beautiful, healthy, delicious veggies and herbs right from the start. The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables is filled with all the information you need to create a thriving garden, from facts about soil and sun to tips on fertilizing, mulching and watering. Regional planting charts show what to plants when, and a month-by month planner take you from January through December. Whether your garden grows in the ground, on a balcony, or in containers on a sunny patio, this is your guide to grow-your-own success.
The backstory:
Whether you’re new to growing or a seasoned green thumb, cultivating a garden is a continuing education as well as a nearly constant feast. Some years are more challenging or fruitful than others, and sometimes the harshest seasons turn out to be the best teachers. After a lifetime of cultivating an edible garden, I consider myself an expert beginner. Always looking forward to the next growing season.