Grow Great Vegetables Illinois is a regionally
tailored home gardening guide for producing vegetables for taste and
nutrition and to increase self-reliance and food security. This is one
of a series of regionally specific guides released
by Timber press. Edited by Bevin Cohen, it's due out in May 2023, runs 212 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats. It's based on an earlier release Vegetable Gardening in the Midwest by Michael VanderBrug, reformatted and edited for Illinois gardeners. All of the guides in this series follow the same format.
This guide is arranged by seasons with a chapter for each month. The
introductory chapter (~13% of the page content) covers garden planning,
climates and subzones in Illinois, as well as very general
gardening advice.
The monthly sections include tasks for each month, potential problems
and troubleshooting, planning and placement of the garden plot,
harvesting and more.
The third section of the book is a regional guide to choosing vegetables and specific varieties which will thrive in the area.
There's a resource list (slanted to readers in the Midwest),
a bibliography and further reading list, USDA based hardiness zonal
map, and an index. The photography is crisp, clear, and abundant. This
is a well crafted book which will provide gardeners with hours of
blissful dreaming as well as serving as a valuable troubleshooting
guide.
Four stars. Very well done.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
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