|
|
Tarfumes.com - The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions
|
List Price: $24.95
Our Price: $16.47
Your Save: $ 8.48 ( 34% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
|
Average Customer Rating: 
|
|
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 635
EAN: 9781580172127
ISBN: 1580172121
Label: Storey Publishing, LLC
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2000-02-15
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Studio: Storey Publishing, LLC
|
|
|
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
|
Discover the last W.O.R.D. in vegetable gardening with Ed Smith's amazing gardening system. By integrating four principles -- Wide beds, Organic methods, Raised beds, and Deep beds -- Smith reinvents vegetable gardening, making it possible for everyone to have the best, most successful garden ever. By following this complete system you cultivate deep, powerful soil that nourishes plants and discourages pests and disease. The result is fewer weeds, healthier plants, and lots of great-tasting vegetables. Plus, you'll enjoy gardening as you never have before. The Vegetable Gardener's Bible -- the last W.O.R.D. in vegetable gardening.
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just Plain Wow!
Comment: Hoping to make the most of my new garden, I picked up this book and hoped some of the techniques would work. WOW doesn't even begin to describe how great this was. The techniques outlined in this book will take a relatively small garden and produce veggies like you've never imagined! I can hardly wait for next year when I'll have more time to build beds and plant even more! I really believe it'll be possible to feed my family with just the vegetables we can grow ourselves.
If you wnat to get the most out of your garden space, you need this book!
Customer Rating:
Summary: I feel like an expert gardener!
Comment: I LOVE this book! It's enjoyable to read and incredibly useful. A great book to begin reading before you plant because it gives you guidance on laying out your garden.
The only people I think it wouldn't be helpful for are those who live in apartments and are container gardening. They should read You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening instead, another awesome book!
If you want to have a hugely successful vegetable garden using organic methods, this book is for you!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great book, but I hope to see corrections and clarifications in a future edition!
Comment: Highly useful book, and a future edition that contained a few corrections and clarifications would be just about perfect.
The author mentions companion planting without discussing mechanisms, which makes typos hard to decipher. The "Artichoke" page states that tarragon is a good companion to artichokes, but the "Tarragon" page states that artichokes are a BAD companion to tarragon. Which is it?
The author also instructs novice tomato growers to remove all "nonflowering stems that grow between the main stem and the leaf crotches." What does this mean?! All stems will flower eventually...
(Of course pruning is controversial anyway... some gardeners claim that the complexity of tomato flavor depends upon lush foliage.)
The "Parsnip" section also has some vague instructions in the opening paragraph: "I deposit some seeds and labor in the warm months, and my investment matures the following spring." Does that mean that parsnips should be planted late summer/ early fall? What exactly is done in the warm months? The rest of the text does not explain this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I had to buy two of these
Comment: My nephew was starting a garden like me I gave him my copy and got a new one. This is a great book and it has helped me to be a gardner.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Vegetable Gardener...
Comment: I wish I would had bought this book long time ago. So much it is written out there but this book gives you a clear explanation and it is so well written.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
